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The terrorist from Venezuela named Carlos the Jackal is now facing another trial for his crimes against France in the early 1980s:

PARIS — The jailed Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal is to face trial for his alleged role in deadly terror bombings in 1982 and 1983 in France, a judicial official said today.

Top anti-terror judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere — renowned for tracking down Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez — ordered him to stand trial for the four attacks, which killed 12 and injured at least 100, a judicial official said on condition of anonymity. Such officials are not authorized to speak to the media about such matters.

Ramirez, 57, is serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informer. He gained international notoriety as the Cold War-era mastermind of deadly bombings, killings and hostage dramas.

After years on the run, Ramirez was captured in Sudan in 1994 and hauled in a sack to Paris by French secret service agents. He was convicted three years later for the 1975 murders.

What led to his capture was partly that the Sudanese dictatorship at the time was pressured into giving him up.

He is also suspected in the 1976 Palestinian hijacking of a French jetliner in flight to Entebbe, Uganda.

I have to wonder if there's more than meets the eye to this - could Carlos be a Muslim convert as well? Regardless, he is certainly a sympathiser with Muslim terrorists, and has certainly proven himself just as dangerous and repugnant. Update: as a matter of fact, it appears that yes, he is a convert! And, according to this article by Amir Taheri, he supports bin Laden.

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