Adnan Awad

Adnan Awad (born 1942 in Palestine) was a captain in the Palestinian Liberation Army who joined the 15 May Organization and prepared to bomb the Noga Hilton hotel in Geneva, Switzerland on August 31, 1982, but instead fled the scene and later turned himself into the American embassy in Saudi Arabia and claimed he had been pressured to join the group and wanted to renounce any terrorist connections.