Ron,
Who ever said that Sudan was a terrorist-state?
...They went their separate ways, and Carlos worked for others, leaving a trail of destruction until his arrest in August 1994 in the African nation of Sudan, which turned him over to French authorities.
Carlos is to go on trial Friday in Paris for the 1975 killings of two French counterintelligence agents. He has also been charged in a 1974 grenade attack at a noted Paris cafe that killed two people and wounded 34.[...]
Sudan handing over Carlos-the-Jackal to the French --go figure!
In 1994, France was under a cohabitation regime, that is Socialist Francois Mitterrand was President de la Republique whereas Gaullist Edouard Balladur was France's Premier and Charles Pasqua was Minister of the Interior.
Full story:
newstimes.com
Regarding the bin Laden connection, I've, from time to time, looked for some online references, articles,... but this track seems so ludicrous! Reading interviews of Taleban leaders in Afghanistan, I came to the conclusion that bin Laden is essentially used by the State Department as an ''incentive/bargaining chip'' in its negotiations with the Talebans with regard to their international recognition as a legitimate government. The conspiracy theory about bin Laden supporting terrorist camps in Albania is overdone and it doesn't fit in well with the current US strategy btw: who's gonna help the US military in the event of a NATO ground operation, after all? The US will have to rely on the KLA, that is on the very same people who allegedly were trained by bin Laden and suchlike...
As for bin Laden retaliating from his survival camp in Afghanistan upon two US embassies in East Africa because his Albanian bases got shut down by some US covert intervention... GEE! Such a multinational, terrorist-whizz-kid should not be chased by US intelligence agencies --he should be recruited by them instead!
Regards,
Gustave. |
