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Carlos the Jackal is the main antagonist in the Bourne Trilogy.
Carlos the Jackal figures prominently in Robert Ludlum’s Bourne Trilogy. In the Trilogy, Carlos is depicted as the world’s most dangerous assassin whose trademark execution is a single well placed bullet in the throat, a man with international contacts that allow him to strike efficiently and anonymously at locations anywhere on the globe. His actual name (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) is used and details - a mixture of fact and fiction - are given about his upbringing and training, including the fictional account that he trained with Russian intelligence at Novgorod.
In the Trilogy he keeps residence in France disguised as a priest, protected by a close network of contacts. In the Bourne Identity a relatively small amount is revealed about him but he factors prominently in the plot of the book because the title character, Jason Bourne, was an American black-ops officer whose mission was to usurp Carlos as the world’s preeminent assassin in order to draw him out of hiding so that he could be killed or captured. During this book, it is “revealed” that Carlos in fact orchestrated the Kennedy assassination.
In the second book, The Bourne Supremacy, Carlos is not a significant character and is understood to be in hiding. However, in The Bourne Ultimatum, the final book of the trilogy, Carlos and Bourne are pitted against each other again in which their feud finally end when The Jackal drowns in the river bordering the KGB traning facility which he was trying to blow up.
Carlos the Jackal is not mentioned in the Bourne film adaptations that star Matt Damon, although The Guardian newspaper, credited with giving Carlos his “Jackal” moniker, is featured in The Bourne Ultimatum film.
This is literally like a French Farce. The convict is already imprisoned for life, so why not conduct the trial just by examining evidence. The murders were a very long time ago, so testimony may not be accurate. Most importantly, why put the families of the murder victims through this whole procedure.
Just inform them of any ‘result’ once the trial has concluded.
Humanly, I’m scandalized that this man still lives, but all things in God’s time.
The terror wave of the 70s and 80s was to a large part financed and ideologically driven by the Soviets. In those days the intellectuals and politicians on the middle and left refused to see any connection between Russia and the terrorists. Even the CIA (apart from people Bill Casey brought in) did its utmost to put down any idea that Russia was behind the terror attacks on Western Europe.
O tempora, o mores.
Ping.
The important take away is that Marxists (Leftists) and Islamists have been and always will be allies.