Word: jackal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARIS: The trial ended the way it began ? with extravagant outbursts of rhetoric. "Viva la revolucion!" shouted Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, as he raised his left arm in retro-revolutionary defiance. And, as trial-watchers have come to expect, that wasn't all. Asking for a microphone so he could play to supporters who had packed the courtroom, Carlos went on to denounce the "McDonalds-ization of humanity," and placed himself on "the side of civilization" against "world Zionism" and the omnipotent American demon...
...being convicted of other, deadlier crimes: The bombing of Berlin's French cultural center, and the 1975 kidnapping of 11 OPEC cabinet ministers in Vienna, to name just two. So, as nostalgic revolutionaries everywhere will be pleased to know, this is not the last we have seen of the Jackal's courtroom swagger...
...Jackal Our continuing coverage of the international terrorist trial. Monday: Carlos' lawyers try to halt the trial...
PARIS: As the trial of suspected terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez ? better known as Carlos the Jackal ? enters its second action-packed week, defense lawyers are battling desperately to stop it coming to a halt altogether. The highlights...
PARIS: Highlights from Wednesday at the trial of "professional revolutionary" Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal...