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AUGUST 1993 - 1997 + : (SUDAN : See HIZBALLAH, PIJ, ANO {See ABU NIDAL} & HAMAS) Since Sudan was placed on the list of state sponsors of terrorism in August 1993, the Sudanese Government has continued to harbor members of several of the most violent international terrorist and radical Islamic groups. These groups include Lebanese Hizballah, the PIJ, the ANO, and HAMAS. The Sudanese Government also supports regional Islamic and non-Islamic opposition and insurgent groups in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, and Tunisia.
Sudan’s support to terrorist organizations has included paramilitary training, indoctrination, money, travel documentation, safe passage, and refuge in Sudan. Most of the organizations present in Sudan maintain offices or other types of representation. They use Sudan as a base to organize some of their operations and to support compatriots elsewhere. Sudan also serves as a transit point and meeting place for several Iranian-backed terrorist groups. - “Patterns of Global Terrorism 1997 : Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism ,” http://www.usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/terrorism97/sponsored.html.

1995 fall : (CIA REPORTS THAT IRANIAN OPERATIVES IN SUDAN WERE CONSPIRING TO ATTACK US OFFICIALS) A few months later [after the attept to assassinate Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak], the CIA reported indications that Iranian operatives in Sudan were conspiring to attack U.S. officials, although nothing came of that threat. ——— “Decision to Strike Factory in Sudan Based Partly on Surmise,” By TIM WEINER and JAMES RISEN, N Y TIMES, September 21, 1998

DECEMBER 1998 : (VENEZUELA : HUGO CHAVEZ IS ELECTED) I gather he’s [Carlos the Jackal’s ] quite the little Muslim activist in jail now, where he recently married his looney French ultra-left lawyer.
Remember that one of the first official acts of Chavez (during a victory lap in France) was to attempt to visit Carlos in jail, even before meeting the French President. He has also written adoring letters to his terrorist idol.
10 posted on 10/02/2003 7:19:21 AM PDT by livius

2003 : (FROM HIS PRISON CELL IN FRANCE CARLOS THE JACKAL PUBLISHES THE BOOK 'REVOLUTIONARY ISLAM' CALLING ON ALL "REVOLUTIONARIES...OF THE LEFT...EVEN ATHEISTS," TO EMBRACE RADICAL ISLAM) Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal," a Venezuelan Marxist who had dedicated himself to pro-Palestinian terrorism, followed a similar path. In 2003, he published a book entitled Revolutionary Islam[43]{[43] Paris: Edition du Rocher, 2003}from his prison cell in France in which he encouraged "all revolutionaries, including those of the Left, even atheists," to embrace radical Islam in order to destroy the United States, which he sees as the citadel of imperialism.[44]{[44] The Sunday Herald (Glasgow), July 17, 2005.}
His terrorism began as a secular struggle. Terrorism is a preferred tactic, he writes, because it is "the cleanest and most efficient form of warfare," able to demoralize the enemy.[45]{[45] The Sunday Herald, July 17, 2005.}
In later years, though, he justified his actions in terms of Islamism. In March 2004, he claimed responsibility on French television for the terrorism-related deaths of between 1,500 to 2,000 people. Arguing that "not even 10 percent of these people were innocent," he refused to ask for forgiveness.[46] {[46] Agence France-Presse, Mar. 10, 2004.}From his book:

"In November 1979, Iranian "students" raided the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took diplomats hostage. The Carter administration, fearful that the Americans would be executed, abandoned its "plots" against the Khomeinist revolution, and thus forestalled events that could have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
Similarly, when Hezbollah suicide bombers attacked American targets in Beirut in 1983, a total of 300 Americans, including 241 Marines, were killed, forcing Washington [Reagan Admin] to abandon its ambition of reshaping Lebanon.
And in 1993 the murder of 18 U.S. Army Rangers in Mogadishu forced President Clinton to withdraw American peacekeepers from Somalia and abandon plans for the Horn of Africa, avoiding bigger conflicts that could have cost many more lives." --- Carlos the Jackal in his 2003 book Revolutionary Islam

Carlos does not say why it is good for mankind to destroy the United States. His method is religious and admits of neither doubts nor counterarguments. The West is evil, and the United States is the leader of the West. Thus the United States is evil. At one point he says the United States is an incarnation of Satan (Shaytan) and should, therefore, be hated without question, just as believers hate Satan without asking why. Carlos urges Islamist groups to conclude alliances with all radical elements, including Maoists and nationalists, in a joint campaign against the United States. He wants all radicals to rush to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Americans, while hordes of "volunteers for martyrdom" organize suicide attacks inside the United States. And he makes a number of forecasts: The United States will reshape Iraq, Syria will disintegrate, and Lebanon will fall apart while Hezbollah is destroyed. Kosovo will become independent, and Sudan will be carved up. Libya will surrender to the United States. Even France will be divided into smaller countries, according to what Carlos claims is a secret American plan worked out by Henry Morgenthau in the 1940s. Carlos believes that, in the medium-term at least, only two states--North Korea and Iran--will be able to resist the United States, thus representing "the last hopes of mankind." The war against the United States, then, is going to be a long one, and the Americans will win the first rounds. ------------ "THE AXIS OF TERROR : Carlos the Jackal pledges alliance to Osama bin Laden," by Amir Taheri, WEEKLY STANDARD, November 24, 2003 http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/700

Carlos the Jackel's brother runs Hugo Chavez's Venezuela Bolivarian "education" department. A little bird told me. - 5 posted on 10/02/2003 5:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife *