Ain't communism grand: another ideology that can only breed murdering terrorists.
<b>Communist terrorists in France and Germany:</b>
(1) 2 articles on France's trial of Carlos the Jackal
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070504/19/13ckr.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Friday May 4, 11:06 PM
<b>'Carlos the Jackal' faces new trial for French bomb attacks</b>
Photo : AFPÂ
PARIS (AFP) - The convicted Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal is to stand trial for a wave of 1980s bomb attacks in France that left 11 dead, legal officials said Friday.
<b>The Marxist-Leninist radical, who once boasted that his plots had killed more than 1,500 people</b>, is already serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of two French policemen and an alleged police informer.
Top French anti-terror judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has now ordered him to stand trial for "complicity in killings and destruction of property using explosive substances" in relation to four bombings in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 and injured more than 100 people, officials said.
The charge sheet against Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, says the attacks were part of a "private war" waged by Carlos against France to try to obtain the release of two members of his gang who were arrested as they prepared an attack on the Kuwaiti embassy in Paris.
The charges relate to attacks on a train travelling from Paris to the southwestern city of Toulouse that left five dead; on the Paris office of the Arabic-language Al Watan magazine that killed one; on the Saint-Charles train station in the Mediterranean city of Marseille that killed two; and on a high-speed TGV train that killed three.
The Paris-Toulouse train line was frequently used at the time by Jacques Chirac, France's outgoing rightwing president who was then mayor of Paris.
According to Hungarian and East German archives cited in the case, Chirac was the target in the attack on that line.
But attempting to assassinate Chirac is not one of the charges being laid against Carlos in this case, and he was not on the train when the bomb went off.
Three other people, Christa Margot Frohlich, Ali Al Issawi and Johannes Weinrich, have also been ordered to stand trial in the case. Weinrich is currently serving a prison term in Germany. It was not immediately clear where the two others were.
The trial is unlikely to start before next year.
Carlos, 57, rose to infamy in 1975 when he took 11 ministers hostage from the powerful OPEC oil cartel.
His commando group burst into the conference room where the OPEC ministers and their staff were meeting in Vienna, killing a Libyan delegate, an Austrian policeman and an Iraqi bodyguard.
Saying he was acting for the "Arm of the Arab Revolution," a previously unknown group, Carlos demanded the broadcast of a text condemning Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the oil monarchies of the Gulf and then Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.Â
The siege at OPEC headquarters went on until the following morning, when Carlos's team took a DC-9 plane supplied by Austrian authorities to fly towards Algiers with 40 hostages.
After two decades on the run, Carlos was finally captured in Khartoum in 1994 by French secret service agents acting with the help of the Sudanese government.
He is serving his life sentence in Clairvaux prison in eastern France.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070504/15/13ckf.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Friday May 4, 10:13 PM
<b>Carlos the Jackal to go on trial in France</b>
Photo : REUTERSÂ
PARIS (Reuters) - Carlos the Jackal, one of the most notorious armed militants of the 1970s and 80s, will be tried in France for four attacks that killed 11 people and injured almost 200 others in the 1980s, a justice official said on Friday.
Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere granted prosecutors' request that Carlos, a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, be tried for the attacks. A trial is expected at the end of 2007 or beginning of 2008.
Prosecutors say Carlos, now serving a life sentence for the murders of two French secret service agents, launched the bomb attacks in a bid to win the release of his companion, <b>Magdalena Kopp, a German former revolutionary</b> held in France at the time.
He is charged with the March 29, 1982, bombing of a Paris-Toulouse train; the April 22, 1982, attack outside the Paris offices of newspaper Al Watan; and the December 31, 1983, attacks on a TGV high-speed train and a Marseille station.
If convicted, any sentence will have to run concurrently with his existing life term handed down at a 1996 trial for the deaths of the secret service agents and their informer in 1975.
At the time of the 1980s attacks, Carlos was close to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, running a multinational group of activists throughout the globe with the support of the secret services of the then Communist bloc.
Carlos was once one of the most wanted men in the world, having shot to notoriety with the 1975 assault on an OPEC meeting in Vienna in which he and five others took 70 people hostage, including 11 oil ministers.
<b>In 1994, France spirited Carlos out of his refuge in Sudan, where he had converted to Islam and married a local woman under Muslim rites. He has since married his French lawyer.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Who said communism and islam don't go together, eh? All the same ideology in the end.
(2) Germany - concerns an incarcerated terrorist of the leftwing terror group RAF:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,15...19,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NO AMNESTY FOR NOW
RAF Terrorist Klar to Remain in Jail</b>
Crime, punishment and forgiveness are recurring themes in German 20th century history. With the first two behind him, <b>Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist</b> Christian Klar learned this week that he'll have to wait a while longer for the third.
Birgit Keller, victim of a Red Army Faction (RAF) hostage taking in 1977, was concerned last month that her former abductor Christian Klar was about to go free. Speculation abounded that German President Horst Köhler was about to grant Klar amnesty. Keller wrote an open letter addressed to Köhler asking him not to let Klar go.
On Thursday, his letter in reply was printed in Germany's mass-circulation tabloid Bild Zeitung. And it looks like Klar is going to have to wait a little longer for his freedom. Köhler wrote that, given the "many factors that have to be taken into consideration," a decision could not be expected in the foreseeable future.
Klar's fate has been the focus of considerable attention in Germany in recent weeks. A Stuttgart court recently granted his RAF comrade Birgit Mohnhaupt parole after 24 years in the clink. But whereas she was up for parole, Klar still has to serve two more years before he can be let out. For a earlier release, he would have to be granted amnesty by the German President's office.
Klar himself recently made it much more difficult for Köhler to do just that. He sent a letter from jail to a recent conference in Berlin, hosted by the Marxist newspaper Junge Welt. In the letter, read aloud at the conference, he claimed that Europe was being ruled by an "imperial pact" and that society must purge its "chauvinistic" forces if it is achieve the "final defeat of capital."
While he made no call to violence, his message was heavily criticized in the German media, prompting Klar to call the media as "block wardens" -- a reference to Nazi neighborhood spies during the Third Reich.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I hope they don't release these RAF people at all. Leftists and fascists are all the same.
<b>Communist terrorists in France and Germany:</b>
(1) 2 articles on France's trial of Carlos the Jackal
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070504/19/13ckr.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Friday May 4, 11:06 PM
<b>'Carlos the Jackal' faces new trial for French bomb attacks</b>
Photo : AFPÂ
PARIS (AFP) - The convicted Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal is to stand trial for a wave of 1980s bomb attacks in France that left 11 dead, legal officials said Friday.
<b>The Marxist-Leninist radical, who once boasted that his plots had killed more than 1,500 people</b>, is already serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of two French policemen and an alleged police informer.
Top French anti-terror judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has now ordered him to stand trial for "complicity in killings and destruction of property using explosive substances" in relation to four bombings in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 and injured more than 100 people, officials said.
The charge sheet against Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, says the attacks were part of a "private war" waged by Carlos against France to try to obtain the release of two members of his gang who were arrested as they prepared an attack on the Kuwaiti embassy in Paris.
The charges relate to attacks on a train travelling from Paris to the southwestern city of Toulouse that left five dead; on the Paris office of the Arabic-language Al Watan magazine that killed one; on the Saint-Charles train station in the Mediterranean city of Marseille that killed two; and on a high-speed TGV train that killed three.
The Paris-Toulouse train line was frequently used at the time by Jacques Chirac, France's outgoing rightwing president who was then mayor of Paris.
According to Hungarian and East German archives cited in the case, Chirac was the target in the attack on that line.
But attempting to assassinate Chirac is not one of the charges being laid against Carlos in this case, and he was not on the train when the bomb went off.
Three other people, Christa Margot Frohlich, Ali Al Issawi and Johannes Weinrich, have also been ordered to stand trial in the case. Weinrich is currently serving a prison term in Germany. It was not immediately clear where the two others were.
The trial is unlikely to start before next year.
Carlos, 57, rose to infamy in 1975 when he took 11 ministers hostage from the powerful OPEC oil cartel.
His commando group burst into the conference room where the OPEC ministers and their staff were meeting in Vienna, killing a Libyan delegate, an Austrian policeman and an Iraqi bodyguard.
Saying he was acting for the "Arm of the Arab Revolution," a previously unknown group, Carlos demanded the broadcast of a text condemning Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the oil monarchies of the Gulf and then Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.Â
The siege at OPEC headquarters went on until the following morning, when Carlos's team took a DC-9 plane supplied by Austrian authorities to fly towards Algiers with 40 hostages.
After two decades on the run, Carlos was finally captured in Khartoum in 1994 by French secret service agents acting with the help of the Sudanese government.
He is serving his life sentence in Clairvaux prison in eastern France.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070504/15/13ckf.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Friday May 4, 10:13 PM
<b>Carlos the Jackal to go on trial in France</b>
Photo : REUTERSÂ
PARIS (Reuters) - Carlos the Jackal, one of the most notorious armed militants of the 1970s and 80s, will be tried in France for four attacks that killed 11 people and injured almost 200 others in the 1980s, a justice official said on Friday.
Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere granted prosecutors' request that Carlos, a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, be tried for the attacks. A trial is expected at the end of 2007 or beginning of 2008.
Prosecutors say Carlos, now serving a life sentence for the murders of two French secret service agents, launched the bomb attacks in a bid to win the release of his companion, <b>Magdalena Kopp, a German former revolutionary</b> held in France at the time.
He is charged with the March 29, 1982, bombing of a Paris-Toulouse train; the April 22, 1982, attack outside the Paris offices of newspaper Al Watan; and the December 31, 1983, attacks on a TGV high-speed train and a Marseille station.
If convicted, any sentence will have to run concurrently with his existing life term handed down at a 1996 trial for the deaths of the secret service agents and their informer in 1975.
At the time of the 1980s attacks, Carlos was close to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, running a multinational group of activists throughout the globe with the support of the secret services of the then Communist bloc.
Carlos was once one of the most wanted men in the world, having shot to notoriety with the 1975 assault on an OPEC meeting in Vienna in which he and five others took 70 people hostage, including 11 oil ministers.
<b>In 1994, France spirited Carlos out of his refuge in Sudan, where he had converted to Islam and married a local woman under Muslim rites. He has since married his French lawyer.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Who said communism and islam don't go together, eh? All the same ideology in the end.
(2) Germany - concerns an incarcerated terrorist of the leftwing terror group RAF:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,15...19,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NO AMNESTY FOR NOW
RAF Terrorist Klar to Remain in Jail</b>
Crime, punishment and forgiveness are recurring themes in German 20th century history. With the first two behind him, <b>Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist</b> Christian Klar learned this week that he'll have to wait a while longer for the third.
Birgit Keller, victim of a Red Army Faction (RAF) hostage taking in 1977, was concerned last month that her former abductor Christian Klar was about to go free. Speculation abounded that German President Horst Köhler was about to grant Klar amnesty. Keller wrote an open letter addressed to Köhler asking him not to let Klar go.
On Thursday, his letter in reply was printed in Germany's mass-circulation tabloid Bild Zeitung. And it looks like Klar is going to have to wait a little longer for his freedom. Köhler wrote that, given the "many factors that have to be taken into consideration," a decision could not be expected in the foreseeable future.
Klar's fate has been the focus of considerable attention in Germany in recent weeks. A Stuttgart court recently granted his RAF comrade Birgit Mohnhaupt parole after 24 years in the clink. But whereas she was up for parole, Klar still has to serve two more years before he can be let out. For a earlier release, he would have to be granted amnesty by the German President's office.
Klar himself recently made it much more difficult for Köhler to do just that. He sent a letter from jail to a recent conference in Berlin, hosted by the Marxist newspaper Junge Welt. In the letter, read aloud at the conference, he claimed that Europe was being ruled by an "imperial pact" and that society must purge its "chauvinistic" forces if it is achieve the "final defeat of capital."
While he made no call to violence, his message was heavily criticized in the German media, prompting Klar to call the media as "block wardens" -- a reference to Nazi neighborhood spies during the Third Reich.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I hope they don't release these RAF people at all. Leftists and fascists are all the same.