Three Sided Coin

Logline: A former Israeli Special Forces officer is coerced by the FBI to infiltrate Muslim extremist cells. Disguised as an Al Qaeda-trained Palestinian, he is able to penetrate a terrorist group and eventually thwart a plot to deploy and activate a dirty bomb in the nation’s capital.

Synopsis:

Assaf Baraket is an officer in an Israeli Special Commando unit, where all the men speak fluent Arabic and are knowledgeable regarding Arab culture and Islamic religious practices.

Arriving in the United States as a tourist, Assaf is noticed during a routine immigration check by Sean Ferguson, a special FBI agent who is looking for someone to recruit as a field operative. Assaf initially refuses the proposal, but soon realizes that if he does not agree, things will not go well for him, so he reluctantly accepts the offer.

Joining an Arab Culture Center, Assaf soon meets Sami Huri, a young woman of Palestinian descent. Expanding his cover, Assaf enrolls in Columbia University to study Islamic studies, where he discovers Sami is also a student, and they soon become friendly.

Assaf makes contact with a terror cell through a fellow student who is a member. He soon becomes an instructor in a Muslim paramilitary camp, where he meets Raul Torres, an Air Force major.

Khaled, a member of the terrorist group, starts to have doubts about Assaf and runs an investigation on him. At the same time, Assaf helps Khaled and Mahmud to build a dirty bomb, while Raul and his cell set up a diversion so the bomb can be deployed in Washington D.C.

Eventually, Assaf’s undercover work thwarts the bomb plot and members of the terror group are arrested.