Venezuelan FM reasserts support to Carlos the Jackal

[Bacchus39]

Source: El Universal

Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro promised on Wednesday to continue supporting "from the human point of view" Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. "Carlos," better known as "the Jackal," is serving a sentence to life imprisonment in France.

"From the human point of view, we will continue giving that support," Maduro said in an interview with state-run TV channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), Efe quoted.

Upon a proposal from Sánchez Ramírez's brother, Vladimir, to launch a campaign such as the Cuban lobby for five agents imprisoned in the United States, the Foreign Minister reported that they "keep in touch to back Ilich as a Venezuelan."

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Ramírez Sánchez, captured in Sudan in 1994, serves in France a sentence to life imprisonment for three attacks in 1982 and 1983 resulting in 11 people dead and 190 injured.


Read more: http://www.eluniversal.com/2011/09/14/venezuelan-fm-reasserts-support-to-carlos-the-jackal.shtml

[COLGATE4]

1. Charming.

[EFerrari]

2. Right, because the correct answer is for a government to abandon its citizens

held in foreign prisons, right?

lol

What the article says is that the FM was approached to start a world wide campaign to free him and the FM demurred, offering only to support him as a citizen who deserves humane treatment.

[Bacchus39]

4. had to leave out one paragraph, and what do you think of this article?

"He has undergone very difficult circumstances in France," he reasoned.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chavez-praises-carlos-the-jackal-1825135.html

Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important "revolutionary fighter" who supported the cause of the Palestinians.

The Venezuelan president praised Carlos — whose real name is Ilich Sanchez Ramirez — during a speech last night, saying: "I defend him. It doesn't matter to me what they say tomorrow in Europe."

Ramirez gained international notoriety during the 1970s and 80s as the alleged mastermind of a series of bombings, killings and hostage dramas. He is serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informant.

"They accuse him of being a terrorist, but Carlos really was a revolutionary fighter," Chavez said during a televised speech to socialist politicians from various countries, who applauded.

[EFerrari]

5. There is zero news value in either.

This is LBN, after all.

[Bacchus39]

6. todays breaking news is a continuation of a policy it would seem n/t

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[EFerrari]

8. Chavez is wrong. He should have just called him a diplomat like Obama did.

of Raymond Davis.

"If our diplomats are in another country, then they are not subject to that country''s local prosecution. We respect it with respect to diplomats who are here. We expect Pakistan, that''s a signatory should recognize Mr Davis as a diplomat, to abide by the same convention," Obama said in response to a question.

http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4925241

[Bacchus39]

9. was Carlos the Jackal a diplomat?? I didn't know that. n/t

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[EFerrari]

10. But you do know that Raymond Davis was no diplomat, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Allen_Davis

[Bacchus39]

11. so Davis and Carlos are the same??

\http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal

p.s. lol

[EFerrari]

12. Yes, the hypocrisy is hilarious, I agree. nt

[cali]

16. you're right.

you are hysterical.

[DrunkenBoat]

18. No, they're two different people. But both murderers.

[joshcryer]

22. One was a mass murderer.

[DrunkenBoat]

23. Davis' resume (includes Blackwater, another private security firm, military, CIA) says he was too.

[hack89]

14. Davis was an agent of the US government.

So the Jackal worked for the Venezuelan government?

[DrunkenBoat]

20. He was a private contractor with the CIA. Not a "diplomat".

The same breed of cat as "Carlos".

[hack89]

24. He worked for the US government assigned to a consulate

international law does not make the distinction you want to make.

[DrunkenBoat]

26. No. He didn't.

[hack89]

27. From your link

Although the U.S. government contended that he was protected by diplomatic immunity because of his employment with the U.S. Consulate in Lahore,...

and

A major focus of the incident was the U.S.'s assertion that Davis was protected under the principle of diplomatic immunity due to his role as an "administrative and technical official" attached to the Lahore consulate

[DrunkenBoat]

19. Was ray davis a diplomat? Soldier, Mercenary, CIA.

[cali]

15. wow, dear. that's some twisted defense.

so even if Chavez is wrong, it can be defended by another wrong. Pathetic. just pathetic.

[joshcryer]

21. Modus operandi.

X does bad thing Y. US does bad thing Y too. No position taken.

[reorg]

28. excellent point

Ramírez Sánchez worked as a contractor for Syrian intelligence and was supported by intelligence services of several Eastern European states. He is only in prison somebody made a deal with Sudan, pretty much like somebody else made a deal with Pakistan, to the reverse effect.

There may be one significant difference between him and Raymond Davis, though. We don't know if the latter has political motives rather than just being in it for the money.

[naaman fletcher]

7. "whatever it takes". nt

[Arctic Dave]

3. Hahaha. TG's little brother rears his head.

Is this some form of Terret's Syndrome?

[joshcryer]

13. Wonder what'll happen if Chavez is kicked out...

...by the electorate come next Oct.

[Bodhi BloodWave]

25. he steps down and they get a new president, fairly obvious methinks n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. Must be another mistranslation