Word: rashid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Awad's case began on Aug. 30, 1982, when he walked into the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland. He claimed he was a prosperous Baghdad-based businessman whom Rashid had coerced, by blackmailing Awad's business, to blow up Geneva's Noga Hilton. The story sounded farfetched, but when Swiss police went to the Noga Hilton, they found a bomb-rigged suitcase in Awad's room. As Awad volunteered more detail about Rashid's modus operandi, U.S. officials began to detect a link between the bomb in Awad's suitcase and the one that had blown a hole...
...Monday, Adnan Awad felt both exhilaration and melancholy. A long, unhappy chapter of his life was about to end, but it would not be sealed by the recognition Awad knew he had earned. For 10 years, the Palestinian businessman had helped U.S. officials to track down and prosecute Mohammed Rashid, a notorious Palestinian terrorist. In all that time, Awad felt, the U.S. had treated him shabbily. While he had been hailed by a Senate panel as "a hero for the American people," Washington had taken seven years to issue him a green card -- and still would not honor his request...
...Awad the receiver. At the other end was retired airline captain Ron Hawk, the pilot of a Pan Am passenger jet on which a bomb had exploded en route to Hawaii in August 1982, killing a teenage passenger. Hawk extended warm thanks to Awad for his role in convicting Rashid for that murder. All told, the event lasted 45 minutes. Admitted a U.S. official: "It was kind of the Motel 6 version of a ceremony...
Left-wing New York City attorney William Kunstler is the inevitable legal champion of some of the most despised suspects--cop killers, assassins, terrorists. So what is the likelihood that he will eventually take on the case of Rashid Baz, the man arrested for last week's Brooklyn Bridge shootings? Time asked some top criminal-defense lawyers to post the odds...
Human-rights organizations think otherwise; they contend that the sayarot shoot first and ask questions later. B'Tselem, one such group, maintains that only about half the Palestinians killed by the sayarot are armed. In a widely publicized incident, Jamal Rashid Ghanim, 23, was playing soccer in the West Bank town of Tulkarm when four undercover soldiers rushed him and, according to eyewitnesses, shot down the unarmed man in cold blood...