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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (368)	11/10/2001 12:17:52 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 827

>>scary stuff for our rights, imo.<< It does make me a bit queasy, but these terrorists can get awfully cosy with their lawyers. Maybe Ashcroft was thinking of this latest development with Carlos the Jackal... Jackal and Mrs. Jackal? dailynews.yahoo.com Friday October 12 7:54 AM ET PARIS (Reuters) - Love has blossomed in jail for aging guerrilla leader Carlos the Jackal, who plans to marry his French lawyer. ``It's a meeting of hearts and of minds,'' attorney Isabelle Coutant-Peyre told Reuters Friday. She said the pair hoped to tie the knot in the grim Sante prison in Paris within a few months, once they had annulled existing marriages. Carlos, now graying, portly and in his early fifties, is serving a life sentence for the murder in 1975 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 1980s. ``There is a huge difference between the image presented of him and the reality -- he's much more conformist than I am,'' Coutant-Peyre said. The Venezuelan revolutionary, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, is being held in solitary confinement and makes occasional court appearances under heavy guard. He 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 drama made Carlos the world's most wanted man and a symbol of terrorism, much like Islamic militant Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), prime suspect in last month's attacks on the United States. France spirited Carlos in 1994 out of Sudan, where he had converted to Islam and married a local woman under Muslim rites. He has another marriage to Magdalena Kopp, a German former revolutionary.