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Rendition of Carlos the Jackal from Khartoum

by Oui
Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 04:05:16 AM EST

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Did Condoleezza Rice forget even the worst of terrorists got his day in court, and was sentenced to life imprisonment!

He drinks and goes out with women so much ...

"We welcomed him as a combatant, someone who fought for the Palestinian cause, for noble causes. Now he's a hoodlum, his behaviour is shameful. He drinks and goes out with women so much that I don't know if he's a Moslem. Given that his presence has become a real danger we are going to hand him over. We have no regrets. Because of his behaviour, we are absolved from blame."
Sheik Hassan al-Turabi

At approximately 3am, he was woken by a group of men pinning him to the bed. Before he could resist, he was handcuffed hand and foot and had a thin hood pulled over his head. A doctor then stepped forward and injected him in the thigh with a hypodermic containing a tranquilliser. A stretcher was produced and Carlos was bundled unceremoniously into a van that drove him to Khartoum airport where an executive jet was standing by.

By the time the jet had cleared Sudanese airspace, Carlos realised that his captors were French, what he did not know was that he was in the hands of the DST. He was then placed in a sack and bound tightly, with only his hooded head protruding. Six-and-a half hours later, the jet landed at Villacoublay military airport outside Paris where he was handed over to another DST team and driven to their Paris headquarters.

As soon as he was unloaded and taken inside the building, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere issued Carlos with a national arrest warrant for the murder of two DST agents at Rue Toullier in 1979. By issuing such a warrant, the French government avoided the cumbersome process of applying to Interpol for an extradition order.

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Convicting Carlos the Jackal was one of Bruguiere's most significant successes

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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Rendition of Carlos the Jackal from Khartoum | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Rendition of Carlos the Jackal from Khartoum (4.00 / 2)

Exactly: France (or Turkey) kidnap terrorists abroad with the complicity of the local government and then bring them home to be tried in open court.

The US kidnaps terrorists, throws them in the CIA gulag and throws away the key.

"Everybody practises rendition".

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 06:30:58 AM EST

Re: Rendition of Carlos the Jackal from Khartoum (4.00 / 2)

If I remember correctly, Carlos had already been sentenced in abstentia then (and I think there was an international mandate for him). He was then put on trial for another murder. He is still in jail in France today.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 06:57:03 AM EST

Re: Rendition of Carlos the Jackal from Khartoum (none / 0)

Not all countries allow trials in absentia. Are countries that do not have trials in absentia in their books required to recognize other countries' sentences in absentia?

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 06:59:13 AM EST
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Lesson 1 (4.00 / 2)

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Becoming a terrorist, stay away from booze and women!

Other famous cases :: Adolf Eichmann - Israel
Ocalan PKK - Turkey & Mordechai Vanunu by Israel

DISRUPTION

"Frustrated by restrictions on using military force against terrorists, the United States is turning to a lower-profile tactic. The CIA calls it 'disruption' -- working with foreign law-enforcement services to harass and hamper terrorists around the world ...

"... Disruption has the advantage of utmost secrecy, hiding the hand of the United States and avoiding the cumbersome congressional reporting requirements that go with CIA-directed covert operations. The recent arrest by Turkish forces in Kenya of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan is one of the rare examples where the disruption tactic gained public notice."

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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by Oui on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 07:47:31 AM EST

Re: Lesson 1 (none / 0)

Are you calling Mordechai Vanunu a terrorist?

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 07:49:43 AM EST
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Vanunu Is A "hero" of Mine (none / 1)

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I meant cases of rendition used by states as a tool, where the abductees where put on trial. El-Masri isn't a terrorist either, so the civilized countries have come a long way from a person like Adolf Eichmann.

Rendition is used by terrorists and in state terrorism. There are many commonalities between the two: arms trade, money laundering and involvement with drugs. See definition of a terrorist state by U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow to South Korea.

Free Mordechai Vanunu

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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by Oui on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 08:23:08 AM EST
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Re: Vanunu Is A "hero" of Mine (none / 1)

The warning about women and booze is entirely à propos in Vanunu's "rendition" case, I'll give you that.

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 08:25:55 AM EST
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Dutch Green Party Senator Terror Ties (none / 0)

≈ Posted earlier as comment in my diary ::
Green Party Senator Investigation Indicates Terror Ties ≈

The Left parties in the Netherlands were challenged by public opinion after the assassination of upcoming politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. The refusal by PvdA Interior Minister to provide Fortuyn with adaquate protection led to much anger by the Dutch voter and ultimate devastating defeat for most Leftist parties.

The murderer of Fortuyn came from a Left Animal Activist group, who have partaken through legal procedures the possibilities to prevent ecological damage to wildlife areas and national parks.

There are a number of groups active in the Netherlands, who have escaped capture, conviction and punishment by Justice for acts of harassment, property damage and arson.

In the months leading upto National Election 2002, there was a lot of media expression and attacks on the person Pim Fortuyn that could be considered character assassination. Much has been left untouched, as no one wants to aggravate the tense social structures within Dutch society.

The hours after Fortuyn's murder, there was fear for populace anger at parliament buildings in The Hague.

It's astounding that as Senator for the Green Party Groen Links Mr. S. Pormes has been asked by party leadership to step down, after an investigation found suspected ties in the seventies to terror groups and training in Yemen. The seventies saw a lot of unrest in Europe with the Baader Meinhoff gang and in the Netherlands Palestinian & Red Army terror and Moluccan acts of despair.

French Embassy in The Hague and Carlos the Jackal

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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by Oui on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 03:28:10 PM EST

Interesting New Spielberg Film (none / 0)

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New Spielberg Film "Munich" Ruminates Over Retaliatory Tactics Against Terrorism ◊ by AZnomad
Sat Nov 5th, 2005 at 01:51:54 PM PST

My comment -- Counter Terrorism :: Israeli Response

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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by Oui on Thu Dec 8th, 2005 at 03:31:44 PM EST
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