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Posted on 10/21/2001 3:24:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Carlos the Jackal, the jailed Venezuelan-born revolutionary widely seen as a symbol of terrorism, was quoted Sunday as saying the victims of last month's suicide attacks in the United States were mostly ``enemy soldiers in uniform and ties.''
In an interview published in the leading Caracas daily El Universal, Carlos expressed support for what he termed the ''revolutionary, anti-imperialist'' war being waged by Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born militant accused by U.S. authorities of ordering the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington.
``The September 11 air attacks struck the command centers of Yankee imperialist aggression against the peoples of the world: the military center at the Pentagon and the center of financial speculation in New York,'' said Carlos, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez.
``The dead are almost all enemy soldiers, in uniform in the Pentagon and wearing ties in New York,'' he added, referring to the more than 5,000 people believed killed in the attacks that damaged the Pentagon and demolished the World Trade Center.
Carlos, now 52, graying and portly, is serving a life sentence in Paris' La Sante prison for the 1975 murder of two French secret service agents. He is believed responsible for some 80 killings in the name of the Palestinian struggle and other revolutionary causes during the 1970s and 1980
El Universal did not say when or how it conducted the interview with Carlos, who recently announced he would marry his French lawyer and also has relatives in Venezuela.
The aging Venezuelan revolutionary, who was spirited by France out of Sudan in 1994, is being held in solitary confinement and makes occasional court appearances.
Carlos, who called himself ``a revolutionary since I was 14 years old'', said he did not personally know bin Laden, who is being sheltered by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers.
But he added: ``Sheikh Osama's fight to liberate the three occupied holy cities of Mecca and Medina (in Saudi Arabia) and Jerusalem is mine also''.
Carlos, who described himself as a Marxist and said he had converted to Islam, said President Bush ``had declared a crusade against the Muslim people of Afghanistan''.
He said the Taliban were Afghanistan's ``legal government'' and hoped they would resist the U.S. offensive against them.
``The response is Jihad (Hold War),'' he said, adding that ''All those who stand up against imperialist arrogance are objectively defending world revolution''.
Carlos, recalling his own violent career in support of the Palestine cause, said ``the conflict in Palestine is the epicenter of revolutionary war at an international level''.
The Venezuelan revolutionary is best known for masterminding the 1975 assault on an OPEC meeting in Vienna, where he and five others took about 70 people hostage, including 11 oil ministers. The incident made him the world's most wanted man and a symbol of terrorism.
Carlos was asked how he viewed Venezuela's outspoken, left-leaning President Hugo Chavez, who two years ago wrote to the guerrilla in his jail cell, calling him ``Dear compatriot''.
``My political position toward Hugo Chavez has not changed, I feel solidarity toward our Bolivarian Revolution,'' Carlos said, referring to Chavez' frequent references to the 19th Latin American independence hero Simon Bolivar.
In a recent visit to Paris, Chavez said his government had a duty to look after Carlos' human rights as a Venezuelan. Political opponents accused the Venezuelan leader of being ambiguous toward the U.S.-led offensive against terrorism.
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May your life sentence in Paris' La Sante prison be long, Mr. Illich Ramirez Sanchez.
But he added: ``Sheikh Osama's fight to liberate the three occupied holy cities of Mecca and Medina (in Saudi Arabia) and Jerusalem is mine also''.
Carlos, who described himself as a Marxist and said he had converted to Islam, said President Bush ``had declared a crusade against the Muslim people of Afghanistan''.
``The response is Jihad (Hold War),'' he said, adding that ''All those who stand up against imperialist arrogance are objectively defending world revolution''.
Attn: Justin Raimondo, Charley Reese, Joe Sobran, and Pat Buchanan: why don't you recruit this guy??? If you haven't already.
I hope this Carlos motherFU***R gets shanked with a rusty shiv and dies a slow, painful death. Or worse. I spit on him. Or worse.
Must be professional courtesy.
You want some bread with that water?
1. We had better realize we are at TOTAL WAR with these people.
2. We must understand they do NOT want to conquer us, they want to DESTROY US, period. This is important because it gives insight into the type of attack they will throw at us (bio, nuclear and chemical attacks likely because THEY KNOW THEY CAN NOT WIN A CONVENTIONAL WAR AND THEY HAVE NO INTENTIONS OF FIGHTING ONE.
3. Civilians, men women AND CHILDREN are the targets, that they are going to attack because these cowards see them as "the enemy."
4. This is ultimately a spiritual warfare and the overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world, follow Islam which seeks to subjugate or KILL Christians and Jews who refuse to convert. That is what this is actually all about. The good news is God's Word says that they will ultimately fail and The Lord Jesus Christ will rule and reign forever.
The above may not be "politically correct" but it is the truth. The sooner we act upon these facts, the better.
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