Word: jackal
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...acolyte of the politician in Bob Roberts, directed by Robbins, Black feels most of his early movie roles were expired mayo. "I did a lot of puppet acting, jobs where I did whatever the director said," Black says of unmemorable stints in such films as Waterworld and The Jackal. He hates confrontation, and he's not arrogant enough to have ever told a director he thought he was being misused, but he did find that movies were a lot less fun than theater or Tenacious D, the Spinal Tap-ish band he created with fellow Actors' Gang alum Kyle Gass...
...lunges at him, baring her teeth and biting at his neck. After a modest show of resistance, he retreats and, in a final display of submission, turns tail and slinks off into the sunset. She takes his place at the kill, tearing chunks from the giraffe's neck. A jackal watches from a distance, hoping for a few scraps when the lions are done. Farther away, by a clump of trees, four adult giraffes wait in vain for their young one to return...
...Every time I go to court, lawyers come up and ask me if they can join the defense." But that might be a little premature: the job isn't Rashdan's quite yet. French attorney Jacques Verges--who won notoriety representing Nazi Klaus Barbie and legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal--says he, not Rashdan, will be leading Saddam's defense. Hundreds of lawyers have contacted Verges as well, he claims. "I've received a lot of applications--from Italy, France, Germany, Arab countries, from all over," says Verges, 80. "If a trial takes place, I'll call all of them...
...Nidal was a relic of a bygone era in which terrorists were wholly dependent on the sanctuary and succor of states - and therefore acted primarily as proxies of their patron at the time. Like the PFLP-trained Venezuelan Carlos the Jackal, the Japanese Red Army and Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, Abu Nidal embarked on a career of mercenary mass murder in the early 1970s, eventually counting among his clients Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran and possibly others, and generally collecting between $1 million and $3 million per operation. And as the others fell by the wayside, he became...
Jean-Louis Bruguiere started fighting the war on terrorism before most of us knew it had begun. In 1989, when an airliner suspiciously exploded over Africa, the French magistrate visited the scene and eventually pinned the bombing on the Libyans. He found Carlos the Jackal in 1994 and had the terrorist arrested while Carlos was sedated and waiting for an operation on his scrotum. Bruguiere helped foil Islamic radicals' plans to attack the World Cup in 1998 and Strasbourg cathedral in 2000. In the weeks after Sept. 11, while his counterparts in the U.S. and Germany were learning to pronounce...