From: Eric Hayes Patkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pttp] Jailed 'Jackal' Issues Mideast Call to Arms (Poster's note: still looking for the actual statement, but in the meantime, here's a news story.) --- Jailed 'Jackal' Issues Mideast Call to Arms By Paul Holmes Wednesday August 29 8:58 AM ET PARIS (Reuters) - Aging guerrilla leader Carlos the Jackal called from his French jail cell Wednesday for worldwide attacks on Israel and the United States in support of the Palestinian uprising. In an open letter responding to Israel's assassination on Monday of radical Palestinian leader Abu Ali Mustafa, a former comrade-in-arms, he said "protracted people's war, without boundaries, is the way to follow. "The killers of Abu Ali Mustafa came from Tel Aviv, the orders came from Washington," the Venezuelan-born Carlos, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, wrote. "The Yankee should beware, we know," he said. Mustafa, 64, a founder member of the Palestine Liberation Organization and leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was killed in an Israeli missile attack on his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel accused him of masterminding a wave of bombings during the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip that broke out last September after peace talks stalled. The United States said in response that Israel's killings of Palestinian leaders were inflaming the conflict. The Carlos letter, handwritten in English, was dated the day of Mustafa's killing and addressed to George Habash, the Damascus-based historic head of the PFLP whom Mustafa succeeded in July last year. It was signed off using the Jackal's two noms de guerre -- Carlos and the Arabic Salim -- and with the words "Allahu Akhbar!" (God is Greater) and "Yours in Revolution." Lawyers for the aging revolutionary, held responsible for some 80 killings in a campaign of attacks in the 1970s and 1980s in support of the Palestinian cause, distributed it to media on Wednesday and confirmed its authenticity. STRING OF KILLINGS Carlos, now graying, portly and in his early 50s, led a six-strong squad of Palestinians and foreigners that burst into an OPEC meeting in Vienna in December 1975 and took about 70 people, including 11 oil ministers, hostage. Three people were killed in the raid and the Carlos gang later flew on to Algiers with 33 of the hostages, whom they released in stages there and in Tripoli before disappearing. France spirited Carlos out of Sudan in 1994 and he was jailed for life in 1997 for the 1975 murder of two French secret agents. Held in solitary confinement in the grim Sante prison in Paris, he makes occasional court appearances under heavy guard. It was not immediately clear whether the contents of the letter could expose Carlos to further charges in France. "Thirty minutes after hearing on radio...about the assassination, I wept bitter tears of rage," Carlos wrote. "The deceitful 'peace process' has come to a pitiful demise. People's resistance in Palestine, armed operations worldwide, are the alternative to surrender," he declared. He said Mustafa had been among few Palestinian leaders he truly respected and had "led us heroically in unequal battle" in Jordan in 1970, when the late King Hussein sent in his army to crush Palestinian forces on Jordanian territory. The letter also called for an Arab boycott of Israel, Arab League sanctions on countries that trade with or support Israel and a solidarity fund for the Palestinians from Arab oil receipts for use in their conflict with the Israelis. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
