Carlos The Jackal

[steve56]

Anyone recall this one ?

[andy at handiwork]

Yes, very well. What's your point?

[steve56]

Just thought of him after reading various other Characters on this forum.

[JamesW]

Ilich Ram?rez S?nchez quite liked the "jackal" moniker, although it was given to him by The Guardian newspaper rather than being his own invention.

[andy at handiwork]

I'm sure his visog graces the cover of some band's album from the 90s.
As for the man himself, he dates from an innocent age when terrorism was the good old, somewhat dealable-with political kind, not the appocalyptic religious strand that curses us today.

[ATS]

andy at handiwork wrote:

> I'm sure his visog graces the cover of some band's album from
> the 90s.
> As for the man himself, he dates from an innocent age when
> terrorism was the good old, somewhat dealable-with political
> kind, not the appocalyptic religious strand that curses us
> today.

Yes you're right about the album cover. Can remember who it was though
probably someone like happy mondays or black grape

Don't know if you saw it but there was a very good series on bbc2 last
year about the early terrorist acts. Covered the airline hijacks and think
it ended with the first al qaeda attack on US embassy in Africa
Very interesting programmes

[Brainsinmedick]

He was a gun for hire. Quite daring, but also not averse to taking credit for other peoples work.
His biggest 'job' was when he took all the OPEC leaders hostage. He was supposed to put them on a plane to Lybia. He got them as far as the plane but let them go. It later came to light that he was asked to name his price by his hostages. He let them go in return for $20 Million. A tidy sum in the early seventies.

Cool Glasses though.

On a simmilar subject, did anyone else kind of fancy female terrorists of the 1970's. All that hair and denim.

[andy at handiwork]

Leila Kahled was the poster girl of the revolutionary set I think.

[johnsix]

As it was the Gruaniard, they probably meant to say The Venezuelan.

[jimslip]

He apparently lived for a short time in Lancaster Mews, W2, in the early 80's, while I lived there, although I never noticed anyone fitting his description apart from "Carlos The Barber" who had a shop around the corner, who also had a big moustache, shades, Affro-ish hairdo and appalling fashion sense, however so did every other bloke, including me at the time!