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| Terror Networks |
| Carlos the has-been crazed killer really admires Binny |
| 2002-09-11 |
| Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, 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. "Yep. That's right. You young'uns wouldn't know about it, but back when I was a lad we didn't have indiscriminate killings..." Al-Hayat said it sent written questions to Carlos in his French prison and he sent handwritten answers back. 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." "All those dead people! It was so inspiring... Yes, thank you. I'd love to have my medication now..." 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. 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. Yep. All those communists and Muslims can stand back and tell themselves, "I've made the world a better place." Can't they? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |