Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Spanish: [iˈlitʃ raˈmiɾes ˈsantʃes]; born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal (Spanish: Carlos el Chacal) or simply Carlos, is a Venezuelan convict who …

Carlos the Jackal (born October 12, 1949, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan militant who orchestrated some of the highest-profile terrorist attacks of the 1970s and ’80s.

Nov 13, 2009 · On August 14, 1994, French intelligence agents capture terrorist Illich Ramirez Sanchez, long known as Carlos the Jackal, in Khartoum, Sudan. Since there was no …

He was a Special Forces soldier during the Vietnam War and then worked for the C.I.A., tracking Osama bin Laden in Sudan and fighting in Afghanistan after 9/11. The terrorist, Ilich Ramírez...

Sep 16, 2025 · Check out CNN’s Carlos the Jackal Fast Facts for a look at the life of one of the world’s most wanted terrorists.

Illich Ramirez Sanchez, better known to the world as Carlos the Jackal, was responsible for numerous terrorist acts in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.

Carlos the Jackal became active as a terrorist in the early 1970s, but his initial attempts failed. However, in December 1975, he led an attack on the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, capturing …

Carlos the Jackal, pseud. of the revolutionary and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, 1949–, b. Caracas, Venezuela. Son of an affluent Marxist lawyer, he joined the Communist …

Aug 12, 2020 · Throughout the 1970s, Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, alias “Carlos the Jackal,” waged a campaign of terror and violence in the name of Palestinian liberation and …

Dec 21, 2024 · Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a political terrorist, was nicknamed Carlos the Jackal after Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel.