What enigma? Anti-Western communist terrorist allied with muslims. Perfectly normal.
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Carlos the Jackal: Ex-Enigma Now Mired in Court
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM ET
PARIS (AP) — Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant terrorist and self-proclaimed
revolutionary who was once one of the Cold War's most wanted men, is
appealing his life sentence for orchestrating bombings in France two decades
ago. Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is serving two life
sentences in France for a triple murder in 1975 and for the bombings in 1982
and 1983 that killed 11 people and injured more than 140. He's been jailed
since 1994 after French agents whisked him out of Sudan in a sack.
HIS LIFE
The world first caught sight of Carlos in the 1975 hostage-taking of OPEC
oil ministers — a young man standing on the runway wearing sunglasses, a
black Che Guevara beret and a Pierre Cardin leather jacket, according to one
of his numerous biographies. Intelligence agencies linked him to the 1976
Palestinian hijacking of a French jetliner to Entebbe, Uganda, the four
bombings in France and other hijackings, explosions and deaths throughout
the Cold War. By his own account Ramirez, who joined the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine and was affiliated with extreme-left European
terror groups, killed 83 people over the years. "I'm a professional
revolutionary. The world is my domain," he said at his 1997 trial.
For a time, his true identity was something of a mystery. In 1981 Mexican
police claimed to have caught him, but their captive turned out to be merely
an armed robber who bore a slight resemblance to the blurred image of a
mustachioed young man who became the symbol of Cold War terrorism.
HIS LOVES
He threatened a campaign of terror against France in 1982 unless the
government freed Magdalena Kopp, the West German left-wing radical who later
became his first wife. That year, bombs exploded on two French express
trains, a train station and in central Paris. In an autobiography after the
couple split, Kopp claimed she was drawn to him even though his pet name for
her was "the cow." France freed Kopp in 1985 and they had a daughter
together. Ramirez divorced her and later was "married" in an unofficial
ceremony to his French lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who remains with him
to this day and was in Venezuela this week to lobby for his return there.
THE NICKNAME
His father, a wealthy communist lawyer, gave each of his three sons one name
of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. He got his nom de
guerre after British tabloids learned that a copy of Frederick Forsyth's
1971 thriller, "Day of the Jackal," was found in one of his early London
safe houses. The novel tells the story of a professional killer hired to
assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle.
THE HUNT
For years, Carlos the Jackal was known only via a handful of hazy
black-and-white photos. But the fall of Communism in 1989 spelled the end of
his career, and Ramirez fled to Sudan, where he was captured by French
agents with the apparent acquiescence of the Sudanese government. He's been
jailed ever since — something the outcome of this appeal is unlikely to
change. The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who called Ramirez a
"revolutionary fighter" and helped keep him in cigars and Venezuelan coffee
in prison, cost Carlos his most prominent supporter.
POP CULTURE
Carlos the Jackal was an inspiration for novels by Tom Clancy and Robert
Ludlum, according to the British writer Colin Smith, who wrote a biography
about the terrorist. Ramirez was the subject of the 2010 Golden Globe
winning biopic "Carlos," a 5½-hour film which he denounced as "a travesty of
historical truth." It was one of many movies and television shows that refer
to Ramirez. A version of an early photo of Carlos appears on an album cover
of the British band Black Grape.
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