Born Ilich Ram\u00edrez S\u00e1nchez in Venezuela, Carlos was just one of the countless fake names that \u201cthe Jackal\u201d used. It was the one that stuck and the one that he used in Warrick\u2019s opening episode, when Carlos and crew attacked a meeting of OPEC ministers in Vienna in 1975. Just whom he was working for is unclear: It could have been the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Muammar Gaddafi, or any of a number of clients who funded his \u201cnew kind of state-sponsored terrorism.\u201d Nominally a communist, Carlos was even financed by former Nazis as well as the KGB and Romania\u2019s Securitate. Already wanted for a string of killings in France and England, he would gain international notoriety for the OPEC attack and subsequent escape, as well as plane hijackings, bombings, assassinations, and cruel operations, such as tossing a grenade among civilians in a Paris shopping mall in 1974. Trained by the PFLP in a \u201csummer camp with guns,\u201d Carlos eventually went out on his own, skillfully amassing a fortune that funded a lavish, drunken lifestyle that occupied his time behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary and even in backwaters like Sudan. Warrick skillfully assembles the details of Carlos\u2019 adventures in terrorism, which earned him almost legendary status: \u201cHe was ruthless, killing without remorse or mercy. Most astonishingly, he was capable of carrying out attacks in the heart of Europe\u2019s great capitals and then vanishing without a trace.\u201d He was finally tracked down in Khartoum in 1993 by a CIA agent who was \u201cconducting surveillance on multiple terrorist groups,\u201d and French agents spirited him away to prison outside Paris, near the scene of some of his most devious crimes. He is housed there to this day.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Born Ilich Ram\u00edrez S\u00e1nchez in Venezuela, Carlos was just one of the countless fake names that \u201cthe Jackal\u201d used. It was the one that stuck and the one that he used in Warrick\u2019s opening episode, when Carlos and crew attacked a meeting of OPEC ministers in Vienna in 1975. Just whom he was working for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}