Here is the article in case the Yahoo link does not work. I really think it's getting time for people to make hard choices. Kakki
Sunday October 21 1:15 PM ET Carlos the Jackal: Sept. 11 Victims 'Enemy Soldiers' CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Carlos the Jackal, the jailed Venezuelan-born revolutionary widely seen as a symbol of terrorism, was quoted Sunday as saying the victims of last month's suicide attacks in the United States were mostly ``enemy soldiers in uniform and ties.'' In an interview published in the leading Caracas daily El Universal, Carlos expressed support for what he termed the ''revolutionary, anti-imperialist'' war being waged by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the Saudi-born militant accused by U.S. authorities of ordering the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. ``The September 11 air attacks struck the command centers of Yankee imperialist aggression against the peoples of the world: the military center at the Pentagon (news - web sites) and the center of financial speculation in New York,'' said Carlos, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez. ``The dead are almost all enemy soldiers, in uniform in the Pentagon and wearing ties in New York,'' he added, referring to the more than 5,000 people believed killed in the attacks that damaged the Pentagon and demolished the World Trade Center. Carlos, now 52, graying and portly, is serving a life sentence in Paris' La Sante prison for the 1975 murder of two French secret service agents. He is believed responsible for some 80 killings in the name of the Palestinian struggle and other revolutionary causes during the 1970s and 1980 El Universal did not say when or how it conducted the interview with Carlos, who recently announced he would marry his French lawyer and also has relatives in Venezuela. The aging Venezuelan revolutionary, who was spirited by France out of Sudan in 1994, is being held in solitary confinement and makes occasional court appearances. Carlos, who called himself ``a revolutionary since I was 14 years old'', said he did not personally know bin Laden, who is being sheltered by Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s Taliban rulers. But he added: ``Sheikh Osama's fight to liberate the three occupied holy cities of Mecca and Medina (in Saudi Arabia) and Jerusalem is mine also''. Carlos, who described himself as a Marxist and said he had converted to Islam, said President Bush (news - web sites) ``had declared a crusade against the Muslim people of Afghanistan''. He said the Taliban were Afghanistan's ``legal government'' and hoped they would resist the U.S. offensive against them. ``The response is Jihad (Hold War),'' he said, adding that ''All those who stand up against imperialist arrogance are objectively defending world revolution''. Carlos, recalling his own violent career in support of the Palestine cause, said ``the conflict in Palestine is the epicenter of revolutionary war at an international level''. The Venezuelan revolutionary is best known for masterminding the 1975 assault on an OPEC (news - web sites) meeting in Vienna, where he and five others took about 70 people hostage, including 11 oil ministers. The incident made him the world's most wanted man and a symbol of terrorism. Carlos was asked how he viewed Venezuela's outspoken, left-leaning President Hugo Chavez, who two years ago wrote to the guerrilla in his jail cell, calling him ``Dear compatriot''. ``My political position toward Hugo Chavez has not changed, I feel solidarity toward our Bolivarian Revolution,'' Carlos said, referring to Chavez' frequent references to the 19th Latin American independence hero Simon Bolivar. In a recent visit to Paris, Chavez said his government had a duty to look after Carlos' human rights as a Venezuelan. Political opponents accused the Venezuelan leader of being ambiguous toward the U.S.-led offensive against terrorism.
