- Adnan Awad
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name = Adnan Awad
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birth_date = 1942
birth_place = Palestine
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parents = WidadAdnan Awad (b. 1942 in Palestine) was a
Captain in thePalestinian Liberation Army who joined the15 May Organization and prepared to bomb theNoga Hilton hotel inGeneva, Switzerland onAugust 31 , 1982, but instead fled the scene and later turned himself into the American embassy and claimed he wanted to renounce anyterrorist connections.Emerson, Steven A. & Cristina del Sesto. "Terrorist: The Inside Story of the Highest-Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West", 1991]Early life
Born to a shopkeeper and his wife Widad in
Ijzim , Adnan had an older sister. The family moved toKiswe, Syria and Awad attended "Alliance High School" in Damascus.The August 1982 bombing attempt
On
August 11 1982,Mohammed Rashid unsuccessfully tried to bombPan Am Flight 830 en route toHonolulu . Twenty days later, Awad turned himself over to the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia and claimed that he had been pressured into joining the group.Aftermath
He was turned over to the Swiss, but later returned to the United States to help secure indictment against the 15 May leadership. With his aid, American intelligence agencies determined that it was the 15 May Organization that had constructed the bomb aboard
Pan Am Flight 830 . [Michelle Visser, Sovereign Immunity and Informant Defectors: The United States' Refusal to Protect its Protectors, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 663 (2005)]In 1991 he co-operated with author Steven A. Emerson, who wrote about Awad's life in the book "Terrorist".
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