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Intersting extract from the lower section of this article below:

"Recently, the master terrorist of yesteryear reinvented himself for the 21st century. In jail, Carlos converted to Islam and, jettisoning “outdated Marxism-Leninism”, became a champion of “revolutionary Islamic terror”. In his new Islamist incarnation he appears to have made an impact on young Islamist extremists.

In the book Revolutionary Islam (Editions du Rocher), written in jail and published in Paris 18 months ago, the convert Jackal urges “all revolutionaries, including those of the left, even atheists, to accept the leadership of Islamists like Osama bin Laden”.

“Terrorism is the cleanest and most efficient form of warfare.” The Jackal avers. “By killing civilians, the terrorist undermines the morale of the enemy and forces its leadership to submit to the demands of the revolutionaries – or surrender. “

Carlos concludes that the West, and in particular the United States, could not be destroyed in a straight military confrontation. What is needed is a campaign of terror that would separate the United States from its allies and then destroy its self-confidence.

This campaign would require “many martyrs” prepared both to kill and to die for Islam. And in his view, only revolutionary Islam could recruit “martyrs” in sufficient numbers to destroy the United States and its closest allies."




Romanian spy boss charged with unleashing The Jackal on dissidents

By Gabriel Ronay
17 July 2005

Communist Romania’s former spy chief has been arrested and charged with “acts of terrorism and crimes against humanity” committed on the territory of France and Germany by commissioning Carlos The Jackal to “liquidate” opponents of the Ceausescu dictatorship living in the West.

Acting on French request, ex-Securitate general Nicolae Plesita, former head of the Romanian secret police’s directorate of foreign intelligence, is now being questioned about “contract murders” of dissidents in the West during the Cold War.

The investigations are shedding light on hitherto unaccredited terror acts carried out, on Bucharest’s order, by the Venezuelan-born Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as “Carlos The Jackal”.

Carlos was one of the Soviet block’s and the Third World’s most high-profile terrorists. He reportedly killed for Muammar Qaddafi of Libya, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Hafez al-Assad of Syria, Fidel Castro of Cuba, George Habash and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Italian Red Brigades, Columbia's M-19 Movement, Germany’s Baader-Meinhof gang, and several communist secret police paymasters.

His terrorist career, stretching across continents and blighting many countries, included the spectacular kidnapping of 11 oil ministers attending an Opec summit in Vienna, and the Entebbe hijacking in 1976. He is now serving a life sentence in France’s La Sante jail.

According to judicial sources in Bucharest, ex-general Plesita admitted that “Nicolae Ceausescu [Romania’s Stalinist dictator] had commissioned Carlos to murder at least seven Romanian dissidents living in the West and was paid [by Plesita] several million dollars for his efforts.”

Among those Carlos was contracted to “liquidate” in the 1980s were dissident Romanian writers living in Paris, regime opponents given asylum in West Germany and Radio Liberty’s Romanian section in Munich, which he demolished with a bomb.

He was also paid to capture, dead or alive, a former Securitate general who had defected to the US and an ex-interior minister who had escaped to the West. Although some of the attacks failed, The Jackal was paid the agreed blood money because the Romanians were afraid of his band of cut-throats.

Personally, Plesita found The Jackal “quite a congenial man … with whom I enjoyed occasionally a glass or two of wine”. But he also admitted that, “between internationalist assignments”, communist Romania provided Carlos and his gang with safe houses, arms supplies, money, forged papers and R&R facilities. And, in the early 1980s – as Carlos expanded his terror bombing campaign to France, killing at least 13 and injuring 150 – Janos Kadar, Hungary’s communist ruler, provided him with a base and state protection at Moscow’s “fraternal request”.

Describing the close relations between communist Romania and the Palestinian al-Fatah resistance, the ex-Securitate general revealed to military investigators that Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, had personally recommended Carlos to Ceausescu as “a safe pair of hands”.

Although Ceausescu had a “close relationship with Arafat”, the canny dictator refused to deal with Carlos personally and ordered Plesita to act as the go-between.

While Ceausescu’s support was vital in the 1980s, according to Plesita, The Jackal bragged not long ago that his supporters at the time were legion. In an interview from La Sante jail he said: “We could go to all the socialist countries, 10 sub-Saharan states, most Arab countries and four Asian states. That is to say, their security services would not harm or threaten us.”

Carlos’s luck ran out with the collapse of the Soviet Union and its East European satellite regimes. In 1994, Sudan allowed French agents to pick him up in Khartoum and fly him to Paris. He was tried for the murder of two French gendarmes and a Lebanese in Paris and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Recently, the master terrorist of yesteryear reinvented himself for the 21st century. In jail, Carlos converted to Islam and, jettisoning “outdated Marxism-Leninism”, became a champion of “revolutionary Islamic terror”. In his new Islamist incarnation he appears to have made an impact on young Islamist extremists.

In the book Revolutionary Islam (Editions du Rocher), written in jail and published in Paris 18 months ago, the convert Jackal urges “all revolutionaries, including those of the left, even atheists, to accept the leadership of Islamists like Osama bin Laden”.

“Terrorism is the cleanest and most efficient form of warfare.” The Jackal avers. “By killing civilians, the terrorist undermines the morale of the enemy and forces its leadership to submit to the demands of the revolutionaries – or surrender. “

Carlos concludes that the West, and in particular the United States, could not be destroyed in a straight military confrontation. What is needed is a campaign of terror that would separate the United States from its allies and then destroy its self-confidence.

This campaign would require “many martyrs” prepared both to kill and to die for Islam. And in his view, only revolutionary Islam could recruit “martyrs” in sufficient numbers to destroy the United States and its closest allies.

To judge by last week’s terror attacks in London, some misguided Muslims might have acted on Carlos’s jailhouse pensées. His new-found Islamist fervour notwithstanding, old communist terror outrages in the pay of Ceausescu are catching up with The Jackal.