Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Members - Carlos the Jackal, George Habash, Leila Khaled, Ghassan Kanafani, Wadie Haddad (Paperback)

Chapters: Carlos the Jackal, George Habash, Leila Khaled, Ghassan Kanafani, Wadie Haddad, Ahmad Sa'adat, Yasser Abd Rabbo, Ahmed Jibril, Abu Ali Mustafa, Bassam Abu Sharif, Nayef Hawatmeh, Riyad Al-Maliki, Hamdi Quran, Khalida Jarrar, Jamil Majdalawi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 64. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (born October 12, 1949)) is a convicted Venezuelan terrorist. After several bungled bombings, he achieved notoriety for a 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, resulting in the deaths of three people. For many years he was among the most wanted international fugitives. He is now serving a life sentence in La Sante Prison in Paris for the murder of two French agents of the DST (counter-intelligence) and an alleged informant. Ramirez Sanchez was given the nom de guerre Carlos, when he became a member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Carlos was called The Jackal by The Guardian when Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day of the Jackal was found among his belongings. Ramirez Sanchez was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Despite his mother's pleas to give their firstborn child a Christian first name, his father, a Leninist lawyer, called him Ilich, after Lenin (two younger siblings were named "Lenin" and "Vladimir"). He attended a school in Caracas and joined the youth movement of the national communist party in 1959. After attending the Third Tricontinental Conference in January 1966 with his father, Ramirez Sanchez reportedly spent the summer at Camp Matanzas, a guerrilla warfare school run by the Cuban DGI near Havana. Later that year, his parents divorced. His mother took her children to London to study in Stafford House College in Kensington and the London School of Economics. In 1968 his father tried to enrol...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1965401