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...early August, Awad was ready. The day before he left for Geneva, he said goodbye to Rashid and Pinter. The couple was headed for the airport with their two-year-old son on a terrorist mission of their own: it turned out to be the bombing of the Pan Am flight to Hawaii. "We'll all meet back in Baghdad in three weeks," said a confident Rashid...
...prediction was wrong. Awad's desperate journey would end in a Geneva hotel room when he found himself talking aloud to a bomb in his suitcase. Torn between fear of Abu Ibrahim and horror at the idea of killing innocent people, Awad prayed that the bomb would explode then and there, taking him with it. The next morning he decided to go to the authorities...
There was even the telltale signature that linked all the bombs: a gold- plated nickel wire like the one that had been removed from the body of the Japanese youth killed in the blast over Hawaii. Identical wires were found in the Rio, Geneva and Tunis devices, in each case attached to a commonly available E-cell electronic timer made by Plessey, USA, an electronics firm based in White Plains, N.Y. All three bombs used a distinctive, homemade version of the easily procurable high explosive PETN. All were powered by AAA- size batteries from the same manufacturer and the same...
...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 in Geneva. A bomb would go off at the Hilton, and there would be smoke, damage and simulated injuries. Once in Paris, Awad would help Israel identify the members of the terrorist network...
...since the beginning of the crisis, Bush has enjoyed a relatively free hand in the gulf. Last week Congress finally resolved to take up the debate over the merits of war and the prospects for peace. The U.S. and Iraq agree on a high-level tete-a-tete in Geneva...