Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949) is a Venezuelan-born self-proclaimed leftist revolutionary. After several bungled bombings, Ramírez Sánchez achieved notoriety for a 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, resulting in the deaths of three people. For many years he was among the most wanted international fugitives. He is now serving a life sentence in Clairvaux Prison in northeast France. is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Left wing redirects here. ... Revolutionary, when used as a noun, is a person who either advocates or actively engages in some kind of revolution. ... Not to be confused with APEC. OPEC Logo The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an international cartel[1][2] made up of Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Ecuador (which rejoined OPRC in November 2007) . The... Clairvaux Prison is a high-security prison in France, on the site of the former Clairvaux Abbey. ...

He was given the nom de guerre Carlos when he became a member of the leftist Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Carlos was given the "Jackal" moniker by the press (The Guardian) when the Frederick Forsyth novel The Day of the Jackal was reportedly found among his belongings. Although the book actually belonged to someone else, the nickname stuck. For other uses, see Alias. ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic Al-Jabhah al-Shabiyyah Li-Tahrir Filastin الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين) is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967. ... For other uses, see Guardian. ... Frederick Forsyth, CBE (born August 25, 1938) is an English author and occasional political commentator. ... The Day of the Jackal is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1971, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle. ...

Biography

Early life

Ramírez Sánchez was born at the Razetti birth clinic in Caracas, Venezuela.^[1] Despite his wife's pleas to give their firstborn child a Christian first name, Ramírez Sánchez's father, a Marxist lawyer, gave him the forename Ilich, after Lenin's patronym (two younger siblings were named "Lenin" and "Vladimir").^[2] He was educated at a local school in Caracas and joined the youth movement of the national communist party in 1959. Apart from his native Spanish, he reportedly speaks Arabic, Russian, English and French. After attending the Third Tricontinental Conference in January 1966 with his father, it was said that Ramírez Sánchez spent the following summer at Camp Mantanzas, a guerrilla warfare school run by the Cuban DGI located near Havana.^[3] Later that year, after the divorce of his parents, his mother took him and his brother to London to continue their studies in Stafford House College in Kensington. In 1968 his father tried to enroll him and his brother Lenin at Sorbonne University but eventually opted for Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. He was expelled from the university in 1970. Nickname: La Sultana del Avila (English:The Avilas Sultan) La Sucursal del paraiso Motto: Ave María Santísima, sin pecado concebida, en el primer instante de su ser natural. ... Marxism is both the theory and the political practice (that is, the praxis) derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ... A given name specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name. ... Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин  listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the founder of the ideology of Leninism. ... A patronymic is a personal name based on the name of ones father. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Arabic redirects here. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Poster of the OSPAAAL. Africa, Asia and Latin America at the sides of the Arab Peoples. ... Guerrilla redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Stafford House College is an independent secondary school in Canterbury, England. ... For other uses, see Kensington (disambiguation). ... ... The Peoples Friendship University of Russia (Росси́йский Университе́т Дру́жбы Наро́дов, РУДН) is located in Moscow. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ...

Apparently, he traveled from there to a guerrilla training camp that was run by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Amman, Jordan. It was there that he gained the pseudonym Carlos. He claimed to have fought alongside the PFLP members as they resisted the Jordanian government's efforts to expel them in 1970. When he did leave Jordan it was for London where he attended courses at the University of Westminster and apparently worked for the PFLP. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other meanings, see Amman (disambiguation) and Ammann. ... Combatants PLO Jordan Commanders Yasser Arafat King Hussein Casualties 7,000-8,000 killed[1] This article, Black September in Jordan, describes the events surrounding September, 1970 in Jordan. ... The University of Westminster is a university in London, England, formed in 1992 as a result of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992, which allowed the London Polytechnic (Polytechnic of Central London or PCL ) to rename itself as a university. ...

Carlos vs Israel

In 1973 Carlos was associated with the PFLP, who had conducted a failed assassination attempt on Jewish businessman and vice-president of the British Zionist Federation, Joseph Sieff. This was prompted by the Mossad assassination of Mohamed Boudia, a theatre director accused of being a PFLP leader, in Paris. Ramírez Sánchez also admits responsibility for a failed bomb attack on the Bank Hapoalim in London and car bomb attacks on three French newspapers which were accused of pro-Israeli leanings. He claimed to be the grenade thrower at a Parisian restaurant in an attack that killed two and injured thirty. He later participated in two failed rocket propelled grenade attacks on El Al airliners at Orly Airport near Paris on 13 January and 17 January 1975. Assassin and Assassins redirect here. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the British Zionist Federation or simply the Zionist Federation (ZF), was established in 1899 to campaign for a permanent homeland for the Jewish people. ... For the Haganah branch responsible for coordinating Jewish immigration into the British Mandate of Palestine, see Mossad Lealiyah Bet. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Bank Hapoalim is an Israeli bank. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Car bomb (disambiguation). ... An RPG-7 captured by the US Army RPG, or Rocket propelled grenade is a loose term describing hand-held, shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons capable of firing an unguided rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. ... Categories: Airline stubs | Companies of Israel | Transportation in Israel | Airlines of Israel ... Diagram of Orly airport Orly Airport (IATA: ORY, ICAO: LFPO) is an airport located in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi, south of Paris, France ( ). It has flights to cities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. ... is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On June 27, 1975 Carlos's PFLP contact, Lebanon-born Michel Moukharbal, was captured and successfully interrogated. When three policemen tried to apprehend Carlos at a house in Paris in the middle of a party, he shot two detectives, fled the scene, and managed to escape through Brussels to Beirut. is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other places with the same name, see Brussels (disambiguation). ... Location in the Republic of Lebanon Coordinates: , Governorate Government  - Mayor Abdel Mounim Ariss[1] Area  - City 100 km² (31 sq mi) Population (2005)  - City 1,574,397  - Metro 1,792,111 Time zone +2 (UTC)  - Summer (DST) +3 (UTC) Website: City of Beirut This article is about the Lebanese city. ...

OPEC raid

From Beirut, Carlos participated in the planning for the attack on the headquarters of OPEC in Vienna. In December 1975 he led the six-person team (which included Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann) that assaulted the meeting of OPEC leaders and took over sixty hostages. On December 22 the rebels and forty-two hostages were given an airliner and flown to Algiers. Ex-Royal Navy pilot, Neville Atkinson, who at that time was personal pilot for Libya's Colonel Gaddafi, was given the task of flying Carlos and a number of other terrorists, including Hans-Joachim Klein, a known member of the Baader-Meinhoff group, and Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, from Algiers.^[4] The terrorists were finally dispatched in Baghdad. Thirty hostages were freed; the DC-9 was then flown on to Tripoli, where more hostages were freed before flying back to Algiers where the remaining hostages were freed and the rebels were granted asylum. Carlos soon left Algeria for Libya and then Aden, where he attended a meeting of senior PFLP officials to justify his failure to execute two senior OPEC hostages: the finance minister of Iran, Jamshid Amuzgar, and the oil minister of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Zaki Yamani. He may have also embezzled some of the ransom money. PFLP leader Wadi Haddad expelled him. Not to be confused with APEC. OPEC Logo The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an international cartel[1][2] made up of Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Ecuador (which rejoined OPRC in November 2007) . The... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann (born 1951 - died 1995) [1] was a West German anarchist terrorist associated with J2M and the Second Generation Red Army Faction. ... is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of Algeria. ... This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ... Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi 1 (Arabic: معمر القذافي Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhāfī) (born 1942), leader of Libya since 1970 and a controversial Arab statesman. ... Red Army Faction Insignia - a Red Star and a Heckler & Koch MP5 The Red Army Faction or RAF (German Rote Armee Fraktion) (in its early stages commonly known as Baader-Meinhof Group [or Gang]), was one of postwar West Germanys most active and prominent militant left-wing groups. ... This article is about the capital of Algeria. ... Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... The Douglas DC-9 is a twin-engined jet airliner, first manufactured in 1965 and, in much modified form and under a succession of different names, still in production today as the Boeing 717. ... Tripoli (Arabic: طرابلس Tarābulus) is the capital city of Libya. ... Port of Aden (around 1910). ... Jamshid Amuzegar (1923 - ); former Iranian Prime Minister. ... Ahmed Zaki Yamani (Arabic: أحمد زكي يماني) (born June 30, 1930 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia) was Saudi Arabias Minister of Oil (Petroleum) and Mineral Resources from 1962 until 1986, and a minister in OPEC for 25 years. ... Wadie Haddad (1927–1978), a. ...

After 1975

In September 1976 Carlos was arrested and detained in Yugoslavia, then flown to Baghdad. From there he chose to settle more permanently in Aden, where he set about forming his own group, the Organization of Arab Armed Struggle, composed of Syrian, Lebanese and German rebels. He also formed a contact with East Germany's Stasi. At one stage, the Romanian Securitate hired him to assassinate Romanian dissidents in France and destroy Radio Free Europe offices in Munich. With conditional support from the Iraqi regime and the death of Haddad, Carlos offered the services of his group to the PFLP and other groups. Motto Brotherhood and Unity Anthem Hey, Slavs Capital Belgrade Language(s) Serbo-Croatian (spoken throughout the territory), Slovenian, Macedonian, Albanian, Hungarian (all official), and languages of other nationalities. ... Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... Port of Aden (around 1910). ... This article is about the state which existed from 1949 to 1990. ... Logo of East Germanys Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS or Stasi) / Ministry for State Security This article is about Stasi, the secret police of East Germany. ... The Securitate (Romanian for Security; official full name Departamentul Securităţii Statului, State Security Department), was the secret police force of Communist Romania. ... This article is about the radio broadcast service. ... For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ...

The group did not perform its first acts until early in 1982, with a failed attack on a French nuclear power station, the Superphénix. When two of the group, including Magdalena Kopp, Carlos's wife, were arrested in Paris, the group set off a number of bombs in retaliation against French targets. Operations in 1983 included attacks on the "Maison de France" in West Berlin in August and two bombs on TGV services in December. These attacks led to pressure on European states that tolerated Carlos. For over two years he lived in Hungary, in Budapest's noble quarter, the second district. His main go-between for some of his money-sources like Gaddhafi or Dr. George Habash was the friend of his sister, "Dietmar C". C., a known German terrorist, was the leader of the Panther Brigade of the PFLP. Carlos was expelled from Hungary in late 1985 and was refused aid in Iraq, Libya and Cuba before he found limited support in Syria. He settled in Damascus with Kopp and their daughter, Elba Rosa. A nuclear power station. ... Superphoenix (French: Superphénix or SPX) is a nuclear power station on the Rhône River at Creys-Malville in France, close to the border with Switzerland. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... For other uses, see August (disambiguation). ... For the group of heart conditions referred to as TGV, see Transposition of the great vessels. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Budapest (disambiguation). ... Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi 1 (Arabic: معمر القذافي Mu`ammar al-QadhdhāfÄ«) (born circa 1942 near Sirte, Libya), has been the leader of Libya since 1969. ... George Habash (Arabic جورج حبش) (born August 2, 1926 in Lod), sometimes known by his nom de guerre Al-Hakim, الحكيم, meaning the doctor, is a Palestinian politician, formerly a militant, and the founder and former Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. ... This article is about the year. ... For other uses, see Damascus (disambiguation). ...

The Syrian government forced Carlos to remain inactive and he was soon no longer seen as a threat but rather a pathetic figure. However in 1990 the Iraqi government approached him and in September 1991 he was expelled from Syria and eventually found a temporary home in Jordan. He found better protection in Sudan and moved to Khartoum. Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see September (disambiguation). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Nickname: Khartoums location in Sudan Coordinates: , Government  - Governor Abdul Halim al Mutafi Population (2005)  - Urban Over 1 Million For other uses, see Khartoum (disambiguation). ...

During his career, most of it during the Cold War, western accounts persistently claimed he was a KGB agent but the link is tenuous at best. It is now clear that he had no part in the Munich Massacre (the attack on Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972) or the 1976 hijacking of Air France Flight 193 to Entebbe. Some attacks may have been attached to him for lack of anyone else to claim the credit. His own boasts about probably nonexistent "missions" confuse the matter even more. For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. ... The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, a group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization. ... For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ... Combatants  Israel  PFLP Revolutionäre Zellen  Uganda Commanders Yonatan Netanyahu† Wadie Haddad Wilfried Böse Idi Amin Strength 29 Commandos Unknown Casualties Yonatan Netanyahu killed three hostages killed five commandos wounded 6 hijackers killed 45 Ugandan soldiers killed Operation Entebbe, also known as the Entebbe incident and occasionally the Entebbe... Location of Entebbe within Uganda. ...

Arrest and imprisonment

The French and U.S. intelligence agencies offered a number of deals to the Sudanese authorities. In 1994, Carlos was scheduled to undergo a minor testicular operation on a varicose vein on his scrotum in a hospital in Sudan. Two days after the operation, Carlos was told by Sudanese officials that he needed to be moved to a villa for protection from an assassination attempt, and he would be given personal bodyguards. One night later, his own bodyguards burst into his room while he slept and he was tranquilized, tied up, and taken from the villa. On August 14, 1994 he was handed over to French agents of the DST and flown to Paris. He was charged with the Paris murders of the two policemen and PFLP guerrilla turned French Informant Michel Moukharbal in 1975 and sent to La Santé de Paris prison to await trial. Vein gymnastics in the barefoot park Dornstetten, Germany. ... is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... The Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST; Directorate of Territorial Surveillance) is a directorate of the French National Police operating as a domestic intelligence agency. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... La Santé Prison (French: Maison darrêt de la Santé) is a jail located in Paris, France. ...

The trial began on 12 December 1997 and ended on 23 December at which time he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... is the 357th day of the year (358th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Life imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime, nominally for the entire remaining life of the prisoner, but in fact for a period which varies between jurisdictions: many countries have a maximum possible period of time (usually 50 years) a prisoner may be incarcerated, or require the...

In June 2003, Carlos published a collection of writings from his jail cell. The book, whose title translates to Revolutionary Islam, seeks to explain and defend violence in terms of class conflict. In the book, he voices support for Osama bin Laden and his attacks on the United States. He also supported Saddam Hussein for resisting the USA, calling him the "Last Arabic Knight". Carlos the Jackal or Illich Ramirez Sanchez, praises Osama Bin Ladens shining example in a selection of writings from his prison cell in France. ... Class conflict is both the friction that accompanies social relationships between members or groups of different social classes and the underlying tensions or antagonisms which exist in society. ... Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957[1]), most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi Arabian militant Islamist and is widely believed to be one of the founders of the organization called al-Qaeda. ... Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. ...

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In 2005, the European Court of Human Rights heard a complaint from Ramírez Sánchez that his long years of solitary confinement constitute "inhuman and degrading treatment." Although the Court rejected this claim, it was on appeal as of early 2006. Carlos is currently held in Clairvaux Prison, where he is part of the general inmate population. European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), often referred to informally as the Strasbourg Court, was created to systematise the hearing of human rights complaints against States Parties to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by... Solitary confinement, colloquially referred to as the hole (or in British English the block), is a punishment in which a prisoner is denied contact with any other persons, excluding guards, chaplains and doctors. ... CAT states: members in green, non-members in grey The United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is an international human rights instrument, under the purview of the United Nations, that aims to prevent torture around the world. ... Clairvaux Prison is a high-security prison in France, on the site of the former Clairvaux Abbey. ...

He is known to have had a sporadic correspondence with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez from his prison cell. President Chávez replied, with a letter in which he addresses Carlos as "distinguished compatriot".^[5][6][7] On June 1, 2006, Chávez referred to him as his "good friend" during a meeting of OPEC countries held in Caracas.^[8] Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (pronounced ) (born July 28, 1954) is the current President of Venezuela. ... is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

New trial

The new trial will be on charges relating to "killings and destruction of property using explosive substances" in France in 1982 and 1983. In addition to those killed, more than 100 people were injured. Carlos converted to the Muslim Faith and his wife has stated she believes the prosecution is political.

Popular culture references

In fiction

Frederick Forsyth wrote a novel, The Day of the Jackal, first published in 1971, in which an international assassin known only as "The Jackal" (French "le chacal") is hired to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle. A copy of this novel, mistakenly thought to have belonged to Ramírez Sánchez, is the origin of his "Jackal" nickname. Many erroneously believe that the character portrayed in that novel was based on him, however the novel was published before Carlos came to public attention. Frederick Forsyth, CBE (born August 25, 1938) is an English author and occasional political commentator. ... The Day of the Jackal is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1971, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... For other uses, see Charles de Gaulle (disambiguation). ...

• Charles Lichtman wrote a novel entitled The Last Inauguration in which Carlos is hired by Saddam Hussein to carry out a terrorist attack on the Presidential Inauguration Ball, crippling the US economy.
• The 1997 film The Assignment, starring Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley is a fictional account of the U.S. government's efforts to hunt down Carlos very loosely based on his true story.
• The 1997 film The Jackal, starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier Bruce Willis plays a character who goes by the name "The Jackal" in which Ramírez Sánchez is mentioned a few times.
• The 1976 book Carlos : Terror International has Carlos and a doppelganger pursued by a lone Mossad agent. The plot includes real names, organisations, and events such as the Mukarbal murder.
• In the movie True Lies, the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, a secret agent, intimidates Bill Paxton's character by (deliberately falsely) accusing him of being a dangerous international terrorist named "Carlos the Jackal".
• In the Tom Clancy novel Rainbow Six, terrorists attempt to have Carlos freed from prison by staging a terrorist attack on a Spanish amusement park. In this book Carlos is referred to by his real name (Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez) and his nickname (Carlos the Jackal) and is spoken of as a highly successful terrorist/assassin who was imprisoned after an incident similar to his actual capture.
• The character Lacrobat in the British sitcom Whoops Apocalypse is a parody of him (his nick-name is The Devil.)
• A new biopic has been rumored to be in the works, with Spanish actor Javier Bardem as the elusive terrorist. The film is said to be helmed by maverick Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, who directed the crime saga City of God.
• The character Carla the Jackal in the James Bond video game Agent Under Fire is a tribute to Carlos. Her character is hired to assassinate James Bond but ends up falling into a fan.
• The thrash metal band Coroner have a song called "Masked Jackal" about Carlos.
• Carlos the Jackal figures prominently in Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy. In the Trilogy, Carlos is depicted as the world's most dangerous assassin, a man with international contacts that allow him to strike efficiently and anonymously at locations anywhere on the globe. His actual name (Ilyich 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. All three Matt Damon film adaptations eliminate the Carlos character, although The Guardian newspaper, credited with naming "Jackal", is featured in The Bourne Ultimatum film.
• In Munich, the 2005 film by Steven Spielberg, a character named Bernarde mentions Carlos the Jackal.
• Radio shock jock "The Greaseman" did numerous stories ("bits") about "Carlos the International Terrorist".
• Aline, Countess of Romanones (nee Aline Griffith) whose first 3 books were memoirs of her work with the OSS, published in May of 1994 a novel, The Well Mannered Assassin, about Carlos the Jackal. The Countess of Romanones knew Carlos as a charming playboy in the 1970s. Without sufficient material for a full memoir featuring him, she turned it into a novel about the trafficking of nuclear materials.
• In The Professionals episode, Long Shot, a master assassin by the name of Ramos wearing dark glasses, a medallion and given to referring to himself in the third person, is commissioned to eliminate the head of CI5, George Cowley.

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Black Grape's first album cover

• Carlos is featured on the cover of Black Grape's first album, It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah.

• Carlos and his real name are briefly mentioned in one of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels, The Green Ripper, as a trainer of one of the terrorists McGee confronts.

• Carlos is the subject and title of a song off the (Young) Pioneers' Crimewave EP.

• Carlos is the subject of an In Search of... episode titled "Carlos, the most wanted man in the world".

• In Gotcha! the character of Manolo (played by Nick Corri) pretended to be "Carlos, the Terrorist" in order to seduce gullible young European women.

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See also

• Hunting the Jackal, a nonfiction book by Billy Waugh, who as a covert operative was involved in the hunt for Carlos during the early 1990s.
• List of notable converts to Islam

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Notes

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References

• Carlos: Portrait of a Terrorist; by Colin Smith. Sphere Books, 1976. ISBN 0233968431.
• Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist Carlos the Jackal; by John Follain. Arcade Publishing, 1988. ISBN 1559704667.
• To the Ends of the Earth; by David Yallop. New York: Random House, 1993. ISBN 0-679-42559-4. This book was also published under the name Tracking the Jackal: The Search for Carlos, the World's Most Wanted Man.
• Encyclopedia of Terrorism by Harvey Kushner. SAGE Publications, 2002.
• The Last Inauguration; by Charles Lichtman. Liftime Books, 1998. ISBN 0811908704

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External links

• Straight Dope Staff Report: What's up with the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal? July 2, 2002
• The Terrorist Mind: Correspondence with "The Jackal" by Anthony Haden-Guest, the New York Press, October 12, 1999
• Carlos the Jackal: Trail of Terror by Patrick Bellamy, the Crime Library
• Ex-guerrilla Carlos to sue France over solitary confinement, CNN
• http://www.westminsterjournalism.co.uk/coursesite/magazines/carlos.html
• Islamic Terrorism Timeline - Carlos the Jackal at Prophet of Doom by Craig Winn