[R-G] Carlos the Jackal 'proud of the path of Sheik Osama bin Laden'

[ProletarianNews]

AP. 11 September 2002. Carlos the Jackal Says in Prison Interview He
Admires Osama Bin Laden.

CAIRO -- Carlos the Jackal expressed his admiration Wednesday for a man
who followed him as the world's most wanted terrorist - Osama bin Laden.

"I'm proud of the path of Sheik Osama bin Laden," Carlos was quoted as
saying in an interview in the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat. He
said bin Laden followed a trail he credits himself with helping blaze.

Al-Hayat said it sent written questions to Carlos in his French prison
and he sent handwritten answers back. His real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.

Ramirez also said he had followed news of the Sept. 11 attacks on the
United States "nonstop, from the beginning. I can't describe that
wonderful feeling of relief."

Ramirez, a Venezuelan, was sentenced to life in prison in 1997 by a
Paris court for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an
alleged informer.

Ramirez has described himself as "anti-imperialist" and said in the past
that he had never had links with bin Laden, but had "strategic points of
agreement" with bin Laden's movement.

Once the world's most-wanted terrorist, Ramirez spent two decades on the
run. He was sought for masterminding bombings, assassinations and
kidnappings dating to the early 1970s, and was captured in Sudan by
French secret agents in 1994.

Ramirez says he is a communist and a Muslim, and sympathized with the
Palestinian cause and at times found sanctuary with Palestinian
guerrillas who ran their own mini-state in Lebanon before the 1982
Israeli invasion forced most of them out of the county.

Ramirez said he hopes bin Laden is still alive. He said if the
Saudi-born dissident "hasn't gained martyrdom, he most probably will
play a decisive role" in the war on imperialism.

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