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Subject: Carlos the Jackal to go on trial in France
Softwar    5/4/2007 12:20:53 PM
Please note where he was picked up - SUDAN.... "http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070504/wl_nm/france_jackal_dc_1" Carlos the Jackal to go on trial in France PARIS (Reuters) - Carlos the Jackal, one of the most notorious armed militants of the 1970s and 80s, will be tried in France for four attacks that killed 11 people and injured almost 200 others in the 1980s, a justice official said on Friday. Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere granted prosecutors' request that Carlos, a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, be tried for the attacks. A trial is expected at the end of 2007 or beginning of 2008. Prosecutors say Carlos, now serving a life sentence for the murders of two French secret service agents, launched the bomb attacks in a bid to win the release of his companion, Magdalena Kopp, a German former revolutionary held in France at the time. He is charged with the March 29, 1982, bombing of a Paris-Toulouse train; the April 22, 1982, attack outside the Paris offices of newspaper Al Watan; and the December 31, 1983, attacks on a TGV high-speed train and a Marseille station. If convicted, any sentence will have to run concurrently with his existing life term handed down at a 1996 trial for the deaths of the secret service agents and their informer in 1975. At the time of the 1980s attacks, Carlos was close to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, running a multinational group of activists throughout the globe with the support of the secret services of the then Communist bloc. Carlos was once one of the most wanted men in the world, having shot to notoriety with the 1975 assault on an OPEC meeting in Vienna in which he and five others took 70 people hostage, including 11 oil ministers. In 1994, France spirited Carlos out of his refuge in Sudan, where he had converted to Islam and married a local woman under Muslim rites. He has since married his French lawyer.
 
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Yimmy       5/4/2007 1:59:09 PM
In the film, wasn't he killed while trying to assassinate De Gaulle?


 
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Softwar       5/4/2007 2:21:28 PM

In the film, wasn't he killed while trying to assassinate De Gaulle?




That is correct. Edward Fox (the Jackal) was killed in the end but never identified - his body was buried in an unmarked grave.  The book is by Fredrick Forsyth - the movie was done in 1973. 
 
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JIMF       5/4/2007 2:37:30 PM
Great film.  The British police/intelligence services had to go through books with death records matching them manually with recently issued passports to find the name the Jackal was using.  As I recall this took several days, Thank God for computers. 
 
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