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...well-dressed Palestinian from Iraq named Adnan Awad walked into the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and announced that he had just left a bomb in his Geneva hotel room. He said he had been ordered by the May 15 Organization, a Baghdad-based terrorist group known to intelligence agencies, to blow up the Geneva Noga Hilton. But when he arrived in Geneva, he found he could not go through with it. Now he was appealing to the U.S. for help...
...diplomat who had been talking to Awad in a soundproofed embassy room picked up a telephone to alert the Swiss federal police. He told them a bomb disguised as a suitcase was hidden under the bed in Awad's seventh-floor hotel room. As a bomb squad raced to the hotel, Awad poured out details of his short-lived career as a terrorist. Suddenly, the American was called out of the room. When he came back, he was angry. The police had found Awad's suitcase right where he had said it would be -- but there was no bomb...
...Awad was born in East Jerusalem, the part of the city annexed by Israel from Jordan after the 1967 war. He moved to the U.S. in 1970, became a U.S. citizen in 1978, and in 1985 returned to his homeland to establish his center. Awad's current troubles with Israeli officialdom began in the spring of 1987, when he sought to renew the residency permit he had been issued in 1967. The authorities rejected his application and ordered him to leave the country when his tourist visa expired in November. He refused to go, arguing, with strong support from...
Once the intifadeh (uprising) began last December, however, Israeli officials singled him out as an instigator. In May, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, acting as Interior Minister, ordered Awad arrested and expelled. Without offering any hard evidence, security officials charged that Awad had incited "civil uprising" and helped write leaflets, distributed by the intifadeh's underground leadership, that advocated civil disobedience. Awad appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which ruled two weeks ago that he had forfeited his right to residence status in Israel once he became a U.S. citizen. This legalism enabled the government to expel Awad without having...
Last week Awad vowed to return to Jerusalem, even if he must convert from Christianity to Judaism so that he is eligible for residency under the Law of Return. "Someone should not have to change their religion to go back to their birthplace," he said. "If all fails, this is what I'm willing...