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  Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949) is a former militant, mercenary, "professional revolutionary" and playboy currently serving a life sentence in France.
He is commonly referred to as Carlos (a nom de guerre) or the Jackal (a press nickname) or Carlos the Jackal.
Best known for a daring 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters, for many years he was among the most wanted international fugitives.
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 `Jackal' admits terrorism involvement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, once one of the world's most-wanted terrorists, also challenged the prosecution's attempt to portray him as a man taunted as a youth for being fat and desperate for attention.
Ramirez carried out the 1975 seizure of OPEC oil ministers and was involved in the 1976 Palestinian hijacking of a French jetliner to Entebbe, Uganda, which ended with an Israeli commando raid.
Ramirez, known as a charmer, "had a very utilitarian concept of women," Aberard said; it was to "befriend those creatures because they could serve him" in his terrorist exploits, including stocking weapons.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/12/17/the-jackal.2-0.html   (567 words)

  
 Flamboyant Cold War terrorist gets his day in court in France
Ramirez, his hair and mustache graying, cut a debonair figure in court, dressed in a tan overcoat and cream-colored polo shirt, an ascot around his neck, gold-rimmed glasses sitting on his nose.
Ramirez was convicted in absentia in 1992, but French law requires a retrial upon the suspect's return to the country.
Ramirez's fingerprints on the pistol and his description of the killings in an interview are giving the prosecution a virtually open-and-shut case.
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 BBC News | Europe | Carlos the Jackal to appeal against life sentence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Venezuelan terrorist, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, is to appeal against his life sentence for killing two French secret agents and a Lebanese fellow revolutionary in 1975, his lawyer has said.
Ramirez, 48, who has been blamed for more than 80 deaths and hundreds of injuries during his pro-Palestinian struggle in the 1970s and 1980s, was found guilty of murder with aggravating circumstances.
Ramirez said he was not afraid of spending the rest of his life behind bars: "They want to sentence me to life in prison.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/42232.stm   (248 words)

  
 International News, December 13, 1997
Ramirez was captured in Sudan in 1994 when he was reportedly given an injection before French agents spirited him in a sack back to France.
Ramirez is being tried for the 1975 Paris killing of two French investigators and a Lebanese member of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine who he suspected was an informer.
Ramirez and his defence lawyers hope to persuade the court to throw out the case on the ground he was illegally abducted by French agents who captured him in Sudan in August 1994 and spirited him to Paris.
archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1997/12/13/fhead.htm   (1465 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Frederick Forsyth wrote a novel, The Day of the Jackal, first published in 1971, in which an international assassin named "The Jackal" is hired to assassinate Charles De Gaulle.
A copy of this novel was found in Ramirez's hotel room during a police raid.
This may be the origin of the "Jackal" nickname.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ilich-Ramirez-Sanchez   (1379 words)

  
 Jackal, Arcade Publishing
Ilich learned the hard way how to adjust to constantly changing countries, schools and classmates, although this was cushioned by his aptitude for languages, a skill inherited from his father.
Ramirez Navas's plan was for Ilich and Lenin to move on from London to take a university degree at the Sorbonne in Paris, and he took them across the Channel on an exploratory trip to find out about courses and student accommodation.
Ilich gave Machado as short shrift as he had given the university authorities, who determined to rid themselves of this turbulent student on the grounds of `antisoviet provocation and indiscipline', and to expel his brother at the same time.
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 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949) was a terrorist, a "professional revolutionary" and playboy better known by the nom de guerre Carlos the Jackal.
His rich Marxist lawyer father gave him the forename Ilich Lenin.
On the other side was the press bureau, with its large and active back was toward us, but the moment she turned at hearing us we scarcely seated ourselves beside her desk when he leaned over.
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 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ramirez also testified last year in a French court that he led the 1975 attack on OPEC headquarters in Vienna that left three people dead.
Ramirez converted to Islam and married a Muslim woman while living in Sudan in the early 1990s.
Sanchez was reportedly captured in Sudan, on Sunday, and turned over to French authorities, who had previously sentenced him "in absentia" to life in prison for the killings of the two intelligence agents.
www.avhub.net /MI_ilichRamirezSanchezCarlos.htm   (1403 words)

  
 Witness says her book about `Jackal' was fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ramirez is accused of killing DST agents Raymond Dous and Jean Donatini, and Michel Moukharbal, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine that Ramirez belonged to.
The agents were investigating Ramirez's role in attacks on Israel's El Al airlines at Paris' Orly Airport, and Moukharbal was arrested and used as an informer.
Ramirez, who faces a 30-year prison sentence, was convicted in 1992 in absentia.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/12/18/carlosthejackal.2-0.html   (360 words)

  
 Mario's Cyberspace Station: Detainee 872686/X - Carlos
Lawyers and family of Venezuelan international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, otherwise known as "Carlos The Jackal" are continuing to claim he was "kidnapped" by French Security agents seven years ago (August 15, 1994) in Khartoum with the direct oversight of Sudanese authorities in compliance with an order from the United States of America.
The 45-year-old Venezuelan-born terrorist, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been linked to the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics; a 1975 attack on OPEC headquarters; and the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jet to Uganda.
When Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos, was nabbed in Khartoum last week, he was found with a young Palestinian girl recruit from a Lebanese training camp.
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 Carlos gets lifer for triple murder
PARIS, DEC 24: A French court early on Wednesday convicted the revolutionary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal", of the murder of two unarmed French investigators and a Lebanese national and sentenced him to life in prison.
The verdict capped an eight-day trial in which the Venezuelan-born Sanchez, linked to some of the Cold War's most sensational terror attacks, was unable to refute evidence tying him to the summer shooting in a Latin quarter apartment.
Sanchez called the Palestinian cause ``a worldwide war and a war the world will win'' and condemned Israel as a ``terrorist nation''.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19971225/35950393.html   (435 words)

  
 BBC News | World | The Jackal has his day - in court
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, is going on trial in Paris for the murder of two French intelligence agents sent to arrest him in 1975 and for the shooting of an informer.
From his cell inside the maximum-security prison in the forbidding suburb of Fresnes outside Paris, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez has tried to maintain the air of dangerous glamour he enjoyed in the 1970s and 1980s as "Carlos", the world's most-wanted terrorist.
He has refused to answer the questions of the examining magistrate preparing the case against him on the grounds that the bombings and killings of which he stands accused were part of an international anti-imperialist struggle.
news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/38181.stm   (1106 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Biography: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known around the world as Carlos the Jackal, is one of the most famous modern terrorists.
Sanchez’s father, a prominent Communist lawyer in Venezuela, named his three sons Vladimir, Ilich and Lenin, after the Russian revolutionary.
The Sanchez family moved to London where Ilich continued his Communist activity and eventually enrolled at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where it is believed he made his first terrorist contacts.
www.tkb.org /KeyLeader.jsp?memID=6074   (543 words)

  
 Convicted terrorist sets the record straight. 05/03/2004. ABC News Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The convicted terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos, spoke from captivity to correct a newspaper account of his 1975 kidnapping of OPEC ministers in Vienna.
But in a letter to the paper from Saint Maur prison, central France, Ramirez Sanchez wrote: "In fact we captured the ministers in conference at the extraterritorial OPEC headquarters and not at the Hilton Hotel where they were expected for a cocktail party."
In 1997 a French court sentenced Ramirez Sanchez to life in prison for a triple murder carried out in Paris in 1975.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/s1059415.htm   (180 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Carlos jackal
The son of a rich Marxist attorney, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez grew up pampered while being fed Communist ideology by his father.
Ilich was deeply interested in Communism and was fascinated by the South American figures who lived by it, like Che Guevara.
In 1969, Ilich Ramirez was expelled from the Venezuelan Communist Party after he showed his support for a rebel group that the party was trying to disband.
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 IRVAJ English -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Son of a militant Communist, Ilich was sent to Moscow to study at Patrice Lumumba University, an institution set up by the KGB to train terrorists from the Third World.
Ilich opted for the less fashionable cause of Palestine, and soon moved to Lebanon, where he trained for operations organized by George Habash's People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Western intelligence services first noticed Ilich when he murdered two French policemen and a Lebanese informant in Paris in 1975.
www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2003&m=11&d=22&a=3   (1669 words)

  
 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (Carlos the Jackal) 1949-
Born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 12, 1949, Carlos was the son of a successful Marxist lawyer, and had a wealthy upbringing with a father keen to feed his sons' Marxist ideology and a traditionally catholic mother.
It was only natural for the young Sanchez to become interested in Communism and the South American communist heroes of the day such as Che Guevara.
By July 1970 Ramirez was at a training camp in Jordan and after a meeting with Abu-Sharif the PFLP's recruiting officer he became known as Carlos the Jackal.
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 E-nough!: Comment on Treasure trove
If France would reinstate capital punishment, a ready remedy of all her Republics up to 1981 when she was seized by a sudden and uncharacteristic delicacy, well, that would put an end to these mysterious unauthorized interviews.
Sanchez, while not insulting us with sham protests of innocence, is neither contrite nor remorseful.
Sanchez has no more information value and serves only to give heart to terrorist that they will never experience final justice at the hands of the state no matter how murderous or heinous their careers.
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 Agence France Presse French: Il y a dix ans, Carlos était capturé au Soudan par des policiers français@ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ramirez Sanchez, dit 'Carlos' au palais de justice de Paris en novembre 2000
Il y a dix ans, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, dit Carlos, légende du terrorisme international des années 1970-80 et responsable présumé de plusieurs attentats meurtriers sur le sol français, était capturé au Soudan par des policiers français de la DST, après vingt ans de traque.
Il y a dix ans, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, dit Carlos, légende du terrorisme international des années 1970-80 et responsable présumé...
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 Straight Dope Staff Report: What's up with the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Contrary to the impression left by the movie, Ilich was not yet a famous terrorist at the time of the café attack.
After the murders, the authorities knew their suspect under an alias, Carlos Martínez Torres, which is why he came to be known to history as Carlos the terrorist, not Ilich the terrorist.
His real identity as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez was revealed within a week or two of the murders, but "Carlos the Jackal" had already stuck by then.
www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mcarlos.html   (2433 words)

  
 RAMIREZ SANCHEZ v. FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing a judgment in the case of Ramirez Sanchez v.
The applicant, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal", is a Venezuelan national who was born in 1949.
Prosecuted in connection with investigations into several terrorist attacks carried out in France, the applicant was sentenced to life imprisonment on 25 December 1997 for the murder of three police officers in 1975.
www.nieuwsbank.nl /en/2005/01/27/r028.htm   (1477 words)

  
 Sanchez, Ricardo --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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The 1994 seizure in The Sudan of international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, marked the final chapter of a manhunt that had lasted for two decades.
Ramírez achieved infamy for his role in lethal attacks carried out during the 1970s and '80s, but the folklore that surrounded him grew during his years in hiding and may have...
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 Bantam Dell Publishing Group | The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
The suspect, whose real name is thought to be Ilich Ramirez Sanchez is being sought in the killing of two French counterintelligence agents and a Lebanese informer at a Latin Quarter apartment on June 27.
The Observer identified the hunted man as Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, of Caracas.
The newspaper said Ilich was named after Vladimir Ilych Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, and was educated in Moscow and speaks fluent Russian.
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 Carlos the Jackal
Yeah, Carlos the Jackal is best known as being the mastermind behind the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the hostage crisis at the 1975 OPEC conference in Vienna.
Named after Lenin, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez was born in 1949 in Caracas, Venezuela and grew up to become an infamous assassin and terrorist cell leader.
Sánchez joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1970, and received training at their terrorist school in Amman, Jordan.
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