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...While Awad was astonishing officials in Bern with his detailed reports, other evidence piled up. A May 15 member en route from Baghdad was arrested in Tunisia with a suitcase bomb like Awad's. Under interrogation, the man admitted that he and another May 15 member, called Abu Saif, had put a bomb on a Pan Am flight from London's Heathrow Airport to New York. The bomb had been found on Aug. 25, 14 days and 40,000 miles later, unexploded, when the aircraft landed in Rio de Janeiro. It had not blown up because the bombers inadvertently broke...
Meanwhile, the Swiss asked Awad to prove that he was working for Abu Ibrahim by telephoning Baghdad. He reached the bombmaker's wife. He hadn't been able to get a room at the Hilton, he told her; he had run out of money. A few days later, a courier showed up in Switzerland carrying $1,500 in cash and a photo of Awad. It was Abu Saif. A search of his shoulder bag showed that part of a maroon vinyl liner had been cut out: the missing fabric had been used to wrap the bomb found...
...fact of life," says Koch. The officials soon realized that there would be no retaliation against Iraq. If they were going to do anything about the attacks masterminded in Baghdad, it would have to be limited to identifying, tracking and prosecuting specific individuals responsible for the Hawaii bombing. With Awad's testimony they just might pull...
...Israelis had a different idea. They saw Awad's defection as a chance to blow a hole in the Palestinian underground. Israeli officials asked to speak to Awad alone, and they gave him a lie-detector test. Then they made an offer. "Your life is at a dead end," a Mossad officer told him. The Israelis would give him $5 million to start a new life in Paris. There he would continue to be involved with the Palestinian freedom fighters, and to boost his credibility, the Swiss would make it look as though he had carried out his mission...
...Awad turned the Israelis down flat. He did not want to be involved with terrorism at all, he said. If he were willing to do that kind of thing, he could have done it for the Palestinians; why should he do it for the Israelis? Instead, in early 1984 Awad agreed to go to the U.S., enter the Witness Protection Program and testify against Rashid...