Carlos the Jackal's missing years: rescued from the STASI shredder,

Stasi documents fill the hole in terrorist's biography – and reveal his charmed life in East Germany while a fugitive from the West

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'Carlos the Jackal' Illich Ramirez Sanchez, in the infamous 1970s photograph

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Ramirez's passport shows his origins

In the West he was for decades one of the world's most wanted leftist terrorists, but in communist East Berlin, Carlos the Jackal was given a headquarters with 75 support staff and allowed to walk the streets with an automatic pistol slung from his belt.

The extraordinary life of Illich Ramirez Sanchez – the internationally renowned terrorist now serving a life sentence in Paris for triple murder – behind the Iron Curtain began to emerge yesterday from a mass of torn East German Stasi files that are slowly being put back together by the German authorities.

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Sanchez, who was nicknamed "Carlos the Jackal" when it became known that police once found a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day of the Jackal among his belongings, is reported to be responsible for the deaths of at least 80 people during a terrorist career spanning 25 years.

For decades he worked as a hit man for the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leading a murderous if spectacular raid on the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' Vienna headquarters in 1975. Sixty hostages were taken and three people were shot dead.

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Additional info source: 1975: Islamic Terrorism Timeline-prophetofdoom.net...
(this is a great account of his doings)

For people of my gereration, this dude was considered the worse/best (depends what side you're looking at it from). To read these two accounts of his life as a terrorist just made me even more mad at the Western govt's. They should have learned their lessons from those days when fighting the terrorist of today.

We have to stop messing around with these folks. Route them out, where ever they are, and kill them. No mercy-stomp them out like bugs.

I thnk Russia will end up being the leader of hunting down terrorist-Each time a terrorist event occurs for them, they go full boat to get who is responsible. Ask questions later.

To now learn the East Germans where his controlers/buddies just gets me even more P.O.ed. Well, at least Ronald Regan was able to make headway there.

Anyway, for those who remember Carlos and his doings-an interesting read. For those who don't know of him, read and lean.

Guess there is no interest in terrorist from the late 70's and 80's.

In my opinion-the Grandfather of Terrorism.