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  Carlos the Jackal
Carlos was thought to have had some involvement in the 1972 terrorist attack on the Munich Olympics, when Arab gunmen killed several Israeli athletes, but he didn't emerge as a prominent international figure until 1975, when he led a team of terrorists who seized about 70 hostages during an OPEC meeting in Vienna.
Carlos was disavowed by the Palestinian groups that initially underwrote his activities as he began to revel in the notoriety of his terrorist crime wave.
Carlos was also becoming alienated from pro-Palestinian factions, due to the fact that they actually believed in something whereas the Jackal increasingly appeared to be mostly concerned with getting his rocks off.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/terrorists/carlos-the-jackal   (1255 words)

  
 Carlos the Jackal, back in the saddle soon - Sean Hannity Discussion
CARLOS the Jackal, once the world's most infamous terrorist, is suing the former head of the French foreign intelligence agency for his kidnapping and illegal restraint.
Carlos the Jackal gained international notoriety as the mastermind of deadly bombings, assassinations and hostage-takings and was the world's most wanted terrorist in the 1970s and 1980s.
Carlos claims that terrorism is "the cleanest and most efficient form of warfare." By killing civilians, he argues, the terrorist saps the morale of the enemy and forces its leadership to submit to the demands of the revolution or surrender.
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?p=2370815#post2370815   (3124 words)

  
 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (Carlos the Jackal) 1949-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Carlos followed this up by moving his base of operations to Paris where he carried out three car bomb attacks against pro-Israeli newspapers and a trademark grenade attack on the Deux Magots restaurant killing 2 and injuring 34.
Carlos was renown as a master of disguise, using fake passports and credit cards he frequently slipped through the net of capture and avoided assassination attempts.
During his career Carlos the Jackal was the template for the western idea of an international terrorist - daring, ruthless, able to mix in society at all levels and with a gift for languages.
www.historyofwar.org /articles/people_jackel.html   (1477 words)

  
 Carlos the Jackal fined in jail
Paris - Imprisoned terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal was fined €5 000 euros (about R37 000) by a French court on Tuesday for justifying terrorism in an interview given from his prison cell.
In a telephone interview with France's M6 television, broadcast in 2004, Carlos, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, argued that his past activities were justified and that there were no innocent victims of terrorism.
Carlos, who was at the Paris court for the hearing, is serving a life sentence in a French jail after being convicted in 1997 for a triple murder committed in 1975.
www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-10-1462_1910868,00.html   (264 words)

  
 Carlos the Jackal Biography | World of Criminal Justice
Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (aka Carlos the Jackal) was born to an affluent family in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 12, 1949.
Carlos was later linked to the 1972 massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics and many other terrorist atrocities were attributed to him despite lack of concrete evidence.
Carlos vanished in the late 1980s, but the French were relentless in their pursuit and eventually located Carlos in the Sudan.
www.bookrags.com /biography/carlos-the-jackal-cri   (631 words)

  
 My love for Carlos the Jackal - FeaturesWorld - www.theage.com.au
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - alias Carlos the Jackal - in court with Isabelle Coutant-Peyre in November 2000.
Carlos recited verses from the Koran, they signed a sheet of paper, exchanged rings (he gave her a platinum one from Cartier) and kissed.
She is relentless in her defence of Carlos, whom she explains, does not believe the terms "terrorist" or "terrorism" are pejorative when they describe acts committed to avoid something worse happening, or more people being killed.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/03/24/1079939711526.html?from=storyrhs   (1488 words)

  
 RTE News - Carlos the Jackal to wed
Carlos the Jackal has revealed plans to marry his French lawyer next year.
Carlos is serving a life sentence for the murder in 1975 of two French secret service agents.
France seized Carlos in 1994 out of Sudan, where he had converted to Islam and married a local woman under Muslim rites.
www.rte.ie /news/2001/1013/jackal.html   (199 words)

  
 CNN - 'Carlos The Jackal' convicted, sentenced to life in prison - December 23, 1997
PARIS (CNN) -- A French jury convicted Carlos "The Jackal" of murder Tuesday after the defendant gave a rambling, three-hour harangue in which he said "there is no law for me." A judge sentenced him to life in prison.
Carlos, who was captured in Sudan in 1994 after two decades on the run and smuggled to France in a sack, was retried for the three 1975 killings after receiving a life sentence in his absence five years ago.
The prosecution said Carlos boasted of the killings in letters to several friends, in a newspaper interview, in a telephone conversation with an associate who later wrote about their chat in a book, and in conversations with diplomats seized during his most daring escapade -- the kidnapping of the 11 oil ministers in 1975.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9712/23/carlos   (963 words)

  
 Mario's Cyberspace Station: Detainee 872686/X - Carlos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Carlos wrote his letter in English, was dated the day of Mustafa's killing and addressed to George Habash, the Damascus-based former head of the PFLP whom Mustafa succeeded in July last year.
Carlos was extradited in chains to France, where he had been convicted and sentenced in absentia in 1992 to life in prison for the killing of two French counterintelligence agents in 1975.
Carlos was behind the hostage taking at the 1972 Munich Olympics that ended in the massacre of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes, After the events of Black Septe produced to link him to an atrocity, it was often blamed on him, out of convenience or ineptitude.
mprofaca.cro.net /carlos.html   (5400 words)

  
 Straight Dope Staff Report: What's up with the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal?
Carlos had become involved with the PFLP when he took terrorist training from them, in hopes of using what he learned in a guerrilla war in his native Venezuela.
Carlos was forced out of the PFLP by Wadi Haddad shortly after the OPEC kidnapping because he ransomed the Saudi and Iranian ministers instead of killing them, and because he was suspected of keeping part of the ransom for himself.
Carlos is no good to the French as a future bargaining chip if he isn't in their custody.
www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mcarlos.html   (2433 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Jackal: Finally, the Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal: English Books: John ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jackal breathlessly follows Sanchez's rapid rise up the world's ladder of professional brigands and cutthroats and his international playboy lifestyle, but seldom reveals a private side to the man--perhaps, one guesses, because Carlos the Jackal never had the time or inclination to cultivate one.
Carlos, born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez 49 years ago in Venezuela, led a childhood and youth so outlandish that even a novelist might have shunned such incredible material.
Carlos the Jackal's life represents the decline of wholesale terrorism and the countries who support it.
www.amazon.de /Jackal-Finally-Complete-Legendary-Terrorist/dp/1559704667   (669 words)

  
 CNN - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal to stand trial for 1975 murders - December 12, 1997
PARIS (CNN) -- After an international manhunt spanning more than 20 years, Carlos the Jackal, one of the world's most wanted and feared terrorists, goes on trial for the slayings of two French investigators and a Lebanese national.
Carlos is most infamous for his participation in the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian commandos at the Munich Olympics.
Carlos was said to have been invited to leave his Damascus refuge in 1991 and to have been turned away from Libya and Baghdad.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9712/12/carlos.the.jackal   (854 words)

  
 'Carlos the Jackal' appeals confinement - Boston.com
The jailed terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" appealed Wednesday to the European Court of Human Rights, saying the eight years he was held in solitary confinement in a French jail violated a European human rights treaty.
The jailed terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" appealed Wednesday Jan. 25, 2006 to the European Court of Human Rights, saying the eight years he was held in solitary confinement in a French jail violated a European human rights treaty.
STRASBOURG, France --The jailed terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" appealed Wednesday to the European Court of Human Rights, saying the eight years he was held in solitary confinement in a French jail violated a European human rights treaty.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/01/26/carlos_the_jackal_appeals_confinement   (347 words)

  
 Carlos The Jackal: Trail of Terror
Carlos learned of the arrest a day later while waiting in Budapest but it took him a full week to respond.
While Carlos was not directly linked with the Goldberg attack, the SDECE believed that it was carried out on his behalf.
Over the ensuing months Carlos considered many other plans to secure the release of his wife and her accomplice but none came to fruition and the pair were left to languish in jail.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/jackal/15.html   (1837 words)

  
 Carlos the Jackal Captured in Khartoum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, was captured by the Sudanese government on August 14, 1994, where he was living under an alias.
Carlos had spent the previous decade in exile in Damascus, Syria, and was then expelled from the country.
Carlos the Jackal was arrested by French counterintelligence officers in Khartoum.
www.aboutsudan.com /issues/terrorism/carlos_caught.htm   (105 words)

  
 Carlos the Jackal gets his day in court
Carlos is thought to have been directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of 15 people in France alone between 1974 and 1985.
The trial should shed light on how Carlos, with wanted photographs of his moon face as common as postage stamps, escaped from France, and on where he was hiding before he stormed the Opec conference in Vienna and kidnapped 11 oil ministers.
At the time of the Paris shootings Carlos was working for Dr Waddi Haddad, a founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who died of cancer in an East Berlin hospital in 1978.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/12/07/wcarl07.html   (916 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 'Carlos the Jackal' complains about solitary confinement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Carlos spent the first eight years of his term in a 6.84 square meter (73.6 square foot) cell in France's Sante prison, where he was deprived of all contact with fellow inmates and was allowed only a daily two-hour walk.
Carlos was again segregated in another jail for part of 2004 and 2005, and has recently been transferred to the Clairvaux prison, where he is part of the general inmate population.
Carlos rose to infamy 30 years ago when he took 11 ministers hostage during a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cartel.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-01-25-carlosthejackal_x.htm   (442 words)

  
 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez
PARIS (AP) The lawyer for suspected terrorist Carlos the Jackal said Friday that she and her client plan to get married as soon as their divorces go through.
By the age of twenty, Carlos reportedly had moved to Jordan and was being trained in weapons and explosive usage by hard-core members of the PFLP commando.
In 1982 and 1983, "Carlos" is suspected of several bombings in Paris, France, resulting in deaths of at least thirteen (13) people and the wounding of one-hundred and fifty (150) more.
www.avhub.net /MI_ilichRamirezSanchezCarlos.htm   (1403 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Carlos the Jackal in French court for defending terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Carlos the Jackal in French court for defending terrorism
PARIS (AP) — The convicted terrorist Carlos the Jackal was back in court Tuesday for allegedly saying in a TV interview that victims of terrorism are never innocent.
"Carlos the Jackal" may be fined $24,000 for comments on terrorism.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-02-28-carlos-jackal_x.htm?csp=34   (316 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Carlos jackal picture
Carlos was then forced to move again in the early '90s as the New World Order was taking shape, finally settling down in Khartoum, Sudan.
Because of problems with the legal proceedings, Carlos the Jackal's lawyers quit the case and the terrorist took over his own defense for a time.
Carlos the Jackal is a criminal that has become a legend, like Billy the Kid in a previous era.
www.askmen.com /toys/special_feature/48b_special_feature.html   (952 words)

  
 Carlos "The Jackal", Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jackal: the secret wars of Carlos the Jackal.
Jackal: the complete story of the legendary terrorist, Carlos the Jackal.
Translation of: Jackal: the secret wars of Carlos the Jackal.
users.skynet.be /terrorism/html/carlos.htm   (551 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Diplomat blames Carlos the Jackal for fall
Nabbed by French agents for several deadly attacks, the Jackal was imprisoned there in 1994; Castellano, as it happened, was assigned to the Paris embassy a year later.
This year, in a French court, he sued Carlos the Jackal and the Venezuelan government over the loss of his job.
The Jackal's capture became front-page news, although terrorism experts indicated that the world of international intrigue had long since passed him by.
www.sptimes.com /2002/07/07/Worldandnation/Diplomat_blames_Carlo.shtml   (2010 words)

  
 BBC News | World | Carlos the Jackal - three decades of crime
Perhaps the world's most elusive criminal, Carlos the Jackal - real name Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - is said to have masterminded a spectacular series of bombings, kidnappings and hijackings across Europe.
In addition to the Paris crimes, he is blamed for shooting and wounding Edward Sieff, the president of Marks and Spencer, at his home in London and also for a grenade attack on the English headquarters of an Israeli bank.
After three years in solitary confinement in a Paris jail, Carlos the Jackal has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two French secret agents and a Lebanese fellow revolutionary in 1975.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/world/42244.stm   (561 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Jackal sues agent over 'kidnap'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The man known as Carlos the Jackal has filed a legal complaint in Paris of kidnapping and illegal restraint against the man who arrested him.
Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was spotted by the then head of the French foreign intelligence agency in Sudan in 1994.
Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan citizen, made his complaint based on a newspaper interview given by the French intelligence officer in January.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/5123782.stm   (267 words)

  
 Win for 'Carlos the Jackal'
Strasbourg - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that France had failed to give Venezuelan guerrilla leader Illich "Carlos the Jackal" Ramirez Sanchez proper legal recourse against his solitary confinement, but said it did not constitute inhumane treatment.
He successfully argued that he had not been allowed to contest his solitary confinement - which lasted from August 1994 to October 2002 - before a French court, in violation of a clause in the European Convention on Human Rights, to which France adheres.
Carlos is serving a life term in a prison in the Parisian suburb of Fresnes for a triple murder committed in the French capital in 1975.
www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1653523,00.html   (160 words)

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