[R-G] REPOST - Carlos the Jackal - more details

[ProletarianNews]

AP; Reuters. 11 September 2002. Carlos the Jackal Says in Prison
Interview He Admires Osama Bin Laden; Carlos: Anti - U.S. Groups Mulled
WTC Attack in 1991.

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.

Asked what message he would send to bin Laden, Carlos said: "I would
begin with brotherly greetings, then I would encourage him to continue
the struggle and safeguard his life because he has become a symbol of
the jihad."

Ramirez also said that anti-U.S. groups discussed the idea of slamming
planes into the World Trade Center as early as 1991.

The aging former guerrilla leader said an unspecified group of
"anti-imperialists" hit on the idea in revenge for the "terrible
destruction" wrought by the U.S.-led air campaign against Iraq to force
it out of Kuwait in 1991.

"I attended an exciting meeting of cadres from anti-imperialist groups
of different ideologies. In an informal, unofficial way the need was
agreed to respond with bombings in the United States," he said.

"The martyr Mir Murtada Bhutto, secretary-general of the Pakistani
Zulfikar organization, suggested crashing into the World Trade Center in
New York with a plane, and not just the obvious targets in Washington,"
Ramirez said.

Ramirez was apparently referring to the estranged brother of former
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto who was killed in a shootout
with Pakistani police in 1996. Ramirez did not say where the meeting
took place.

"(The U.S.) people are really great and do not deserve the hatred of the
whole world," Ramirez added.

"Nevertheless, every lover of justice hates the American imperialists,
the worst tyrants in the history of humanity."

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