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Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:31 pm
by andy at handiwork
jimslip wrote:
.....a big moustache, shades, Affro-ish hairdo and appalling fashion sense, however so did every other bloke, including me at the time!
Do you have any pictures?
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:33 pm
by Brainsinmedick
He attempted a hit in London. His target was the then boss of Marks and Spencer. It was classic Carlos. He simply knocked on the victim's front door and shot him. But despite shooting him in the face at point blank range he failed to kill his victim.
Typical Carlos really, brave and incompetent.
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:36 pm
by steve56
Lancaster Mews is near where i live thought he lived down westbourne Grove too
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:52 pm
by jimslip
All pictures of me from that time have been shredded and then burnt for good measure.
I think "Carlos The Jackass" had a number of different safe houses, so he probably lived near me for a short time, before disappearing into another address. But I think he liked London W2, lots of Arabs there, I suppose he felt at home.
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:57 pm
by jimslip
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:54 pm
by andy at handiwork
jimslip wrote:
> All pictures of me from that time have been shredded and then
> burnt for good measure.
A nation mourns.
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:02 pm
by Jonone
His judgement must have been impaired by all the ganja he'd consumed (actively or passively) in Westbourne Grove.
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:17 pm
by belfast_birty
He's currently living the Life of Riley in a French slammer.Ilya Ramires.
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:27 am
by rgb
Thirty years ago I was an airport immigration officer. We were told one day that Carlos the Jackal was expected from Paris and we were to point him out to Special Branch. I saw a bloke fitting the description so I went down to the SB office, but it was empty. Using my deductive skills, I went up to the departure lounge bar and found the duty SB guy nursing a pint. I told him I'd seen a bloke matching the description of Carlos the Jackal - and he said "Carlos who, mate?" I thought sod it, and got myself a pint as well...
If I remember right, MI5 had started a file on him when he was just 5 years old. An immigration officer at Dover (I think) sent them a report because he thought it curious that a middle class Venezuelan family had named its children after Russian communist leaders.
Re: Carlos The Jackal
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:50 am
by Jonone
Is Carlos Tevez named after the same Russian communist leader or after Carlos the Jackal ? What about Carlos Santana ?
