"The Axis of Terror: Carlos the Jackal pledges alliance to Osama bin Laden (How to kill the U.S.)"
The Weekly Standard via Benador Associates ^ | November 24, 2003 | Amir Taheri
Posted on 11/19/2003 5:47 PM PST by quidnunc
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Few convicted murderers and hijackers accept the label "terrorist." One who does — indeed, who embraces terrorism as among man's "noblest pursuits" — is a Venezuelan now serving a life sentence for murder in France. He is Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal."
He has just published a book in French to announce his conversion to Islam and present his strategy for "the destruction of the United States through an orchestrated and persistent campaign of terror." Entitled "Revolutionary Islam" (Editions du Rocher, 2003) and published under the name Ilich Ramírez Sánchez-CARLOS, the book urges "all revolutionaries, including those of the left, even atheists," to accept the leadership of Islamists such as Osama bin Laden and so help turn Afghanistan and Iraq into the "graveyards of American imperialism."
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. That was in the 1970s, when the most fashionable cause was opposition to the U.S. intervention in Indochina.
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)."
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