Joby Warrick, "The Jackal"
About this episode
Joby Warrick discusses his book 'The Jackal' and his meeting with Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, who has been imprisoned for 32 years.
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, has been in prison for 32 years in France. He was captured in Sudan on August 14, 1994. In his book titled "The Jackal," Washington Post correspondent Joby Warrick reports on his 2025 meeting with the jailed terrorist in Paris. Carlos told him: "I killed 83 people with my own hand." Reporter Warrick writes that: "Carlos mattered. He was the human face of a dangerous new form of international terrorism that emerged in the 1970s and the 1980s, which became the template for later groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State." The Jackal will be 77 years old on October 12th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Guest: Joby Warrick
Topics covered
- terrorism
- biography
- international relations
- history
- politics
Keywords
- Carlos the Jackal
- Joby Warrick
- terrorism
- international terrorism
- biography
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Organizations: Washington Post
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