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Carlos `The Jackal'
Is Arrested
Paris (JTA) — Carlos the Jack-
al, the international terrorist ar-
rested this week in the Sudan,
has a long history of suspected in-
volvement in attacks against
Jewish targets.
One of the world's most want-
ed and infamous terrorists, Car-
los is widely believed to have
masterminded the massacre of
Israeli athletes at the 1972 Mu-
nich Olympic games.
In Israel, Defense Ministry of-
ficials expressed their deep grat-
ification over Carlos' arrest.
And the Anti-Defamation
League called his arrest "a
tremendous victory in the fight
against international terrorism."
The Venezuelan-born Carlos
was arrested in the Sudanese
capital of Khartoum by the DST,
France's counterintelligence
agency.
According to a statement is-
sued by the Sudanese govern-
ment, security agents in
Khartoum turned Carlos over to
French officials, who transferred
him to a Paris jail.
A French court sentenced Car-
los in absentia to life imprison-
ment in 1992 for his role in the
killing of two French intelligence
agents. Despite his previous con-
viction, according to French law,
he is expected to be retried for
murder and terrorist activities.
He was scheduled to be formally
indicted.
Reports from Sudan indicate
that Carlos, whose real name is
Bich Ramirez Sanchez, was about
to carry out terrorist attacks
against Western interests in
Khartoum. Observers in Paris
said that Sudanese authorities
delivered Carlos to the French as
part of an effort to change their
reputation as supporters of ter-
rorist activities.
French Interior Minister
Charles Pasqua said this week
that the French secret services
had been searching for Carlos
since 1975.
Mr. Pasqua estimated that
Carlos was responsible for the
deaths 83 people worldwide, in-
cluding at least 15 French citi-
zens during the past two decades.
Carlos' long history of sus-
pected involvement in attacks
against Jewish targets dates back
to the beginning of his terrorist
career in 1970, when he joined
the Popular Front for the Liber-
ation of Palestine, a Damascus-
based alliance of militant groups
that considers Israel its eternal
foe.
The son of a wealthy commu-
nist lawyer, Carlos was sent by
his father in the late 1960s to
Cuba, where he was trained in
subversive activities by the KGB.
Later, he went to study at a
Moscow university, where he be-
friended PFLP members and
joined the group.
He was subsequently expelled
from the university because the
PFLP was then regarded by So-
viet authorities as a pro-Chinese
organization.
According to various intelli-
gence reports, Carlos helped plan
the massacre of 11 Israeli ath-
letes at the Munich Olympics, an
operation carried out by factions
of the Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization operating under the
name of the Black September
movement.
Despite the widespread spec-
ulation of his involvement in the
Munich massacre, at least one Is-
raeli terrorism expert this week
questioned the charges.
Israel never adduced any con-
crete evidence linking Carlos to
the Munich massacre, according
to Dr. Joseph Alpher of Tel Aviv
University's Jaffee Center for
Strategic Studies.
Carlos is also believed to have
been involved in the 1976 hi-
jacking of an Air France jetliner
According to some
reports, he led a
Libyan hit squad that
was planning to kill
President Reagan in
1981.
to Entebbe, Uganda. The hijack-
ing prompted a daring Israeli
commando operation to rescue
the flight's Jewish hostages.
That same year, he claimed re-
sponsibility for the 1973 shooting
and wounding of a prominent
British Jewish millionaire, Ed-
ward Sieff, whose family owns
the Marks and Spencer depart-
ment store chain.
In the early 1980s, Carlos was
believed to be working for Syria
in an operation aimed at over-
throwing the Iraqi government.
According to some reports, he
led a Libyan hit squad that was
planning to kill President Rea-
gan in 1981.
He was also considered a lead-
ing planner of numerous other
terrorist activities, including the
1975 attack on OPEC headquar-
ters in Vienna, in which three
were killed and 11 taken hostage
in a $1 billion hostage drama.
In 1982, he threatened attacks
on France unless it released two
of his agents, one of whom later
became his wife.
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