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France hands of Carlos the Jackal another life in prison

Written By Guru Cool on Thursday, December 15, 2011 | 8:39 PM

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal solves cm, his fist as he is on trial in Paris appears with a trial in Frankfurt am Main from his former German accomplice Hans-Joachim Klein, 28 November 2000.IMG credit: Reuters/RTV/Thierry Chiarello

Alexandria Sage


PARIS | Thu 15 December 2011 7: 03 pm EST


PARIS (Reuters) - a French Court of sentenced extravagant Marxist militant Carlos the Jackal to another life sentence on Thursday for the bomb attacks, 11 people nearly three decades ago killed.


The Venezuelan defendant, 62, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is for almost 20 years in the service one life sentence in a separate case for the murder of two policemen and an informant in Paris was closed in 1975 in France.


Conviction Ramirez, an additional life term Pariser Hof, special terrorism consists of seven judges said he should serve at least 18 years in prison.


The ruling could back to push the date on which it can be used for the conditional release, set for 2012.


Defense lawyers called the decision a scandal and said that a complaint would take their customers.


Ramirez masterminding slain accused four separate attacks in France on two trains, a train station and a Parisian Street, the 11 people and wounded almost 200.


Prosecutors, said that the bombings were seizure of two of his gang, including his mistress, his response to the police and had argued that he remained a danger to the public.


Earlier on Thursday Ramirez treated the Court in one - according to one important wanted international criminal - five hour monologue, alternately walking, vitriolic and poignant, called himself "living martyrs" to defend his innocence.


Ramirez, a self-dubbed "elite Schütze," appeared in resignation to a guilty verdict. Death in prison, he said once, "Is the role of a revolutionary."


"I am in prison... sentenced in pre-decided case," he told the Court his voice in volume increases.


SHADES OF CHE GUEVARA


Ramirez, a colorful figure can be seen at the height of his fame from his Che Guevara-style beret, sunglasses and Havana cigars, sealed his fame in a bloody hostage-taking of OPEC oil Ministers in 1975.


During the cold war was previously caught support by Eastern bloc and the Middle East, staging attacks across Europe for more than two decades in the Sudan in 1994.


During the six-week trial Ramirez appeared more like a master of ceremonies as a defendant, speaking through loudspeakers, suspend judges, lawyers to correct and occasionally wrapping well out of his cage respondent.


He denied any specific involvement in four bombings in 1982 and 1983 at a Parisian Street, two trains and a Marseille train station that injured nearly 200 people and 11 dead links. Prosecutors say the bombings Ramirez were the answer to the police seizure of two of his gang, including his beloved.


"There is nothing... me connect with these four attacks," he told the Court, a 0 (zero) characters with his thumb and forefinger.


Wove Ramirez the history smile after history, often as a modern Scheherazade and grow nostalgic over former comrades and sometimes turn fiery to rail on the system.


His relentless discourse touches on a variety of topics, from prison life Zionist strategy, Soviet passports, the French State, hashish, and even the death penalty.


Ramirez broke his powerful voice range when at the end of his speech, he read what he said was the last will of fallen Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi.


"I continue the fight," he read from the text before the crash, to overcome with emotions. A group of about a dozen young people in the courtroom audience raised their fists in the air, screamed encouragement for Ramirez.


"Salam alaikum" or "Peace be with you," said Ramirez, to Islam in prison, before a final fist in the air on the amount converted.


MAN OF KAMPFES


Accused of being a gun for hire by his opponents and a cold-blooded killer of former cohort witnessed against him, put Ramirez on the first day of the procedure as "Revolutionary occupation."


Why no one ever was arrested in France for the attacks he questions cast itself as a convenient scapegoat. He and his lawyers said that the evidence for unreliable witnesses and photocopies of documents from Eastern European secret service archives was based.


Clearly, enjoy a fondness for betting stories in the spotlight, Ramirez indicated, different citing a cast of historical and modern State by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Soviet leader Stalin of to former French President Jacques Chirac, and mentioned in its guilty verdict given in the same courthouse earlier in the day.


He said the Court considers the right way, a 9-millimeter pistol, correction of the public prosecutor know how many balls to load as a weapon.


"You not really a man of struggle," he said.


Prosecutors had argued, Ramirez remains a public danger and demanded he be sentenced to an additional gets life term and serve at least 18 years old.


(Additional reporting Thierry Leveque and Vicky Buffery;) (Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Night raids, prison control stymie U.S.-Afghan deal

Written By Guru Cool on Saturday, November 5, 2011 | 9:40 PM

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U.S. military officer 1LT Adam Ferree (C), 1st Pltn leader, from Alpha Co, 2nd Battalion 35th Infantry, Task Force ''Cacti'' gives a command to the rear plank during a joint military patrol in Walay valley, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Kunar province, October 2, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Erik De Castro

By Susan Cornwell


WASHINGTON | Fri Nov 4, 2011 4:28pm EDT


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-Afghan strategic partnership agreement is being held up by Afghan demands for limits on "night raids" against insurgents and for a timeline for Afghans to assume control over detention centers, sources following the talks told Reuters.


Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that the two nations had agreed on as much as 90 percent of the substance of the keystone deal. It is intended to provide a framework for the future U.S. role in Afghanistan as control over security is gradually transferred to the Afghans.


While U.S. officials had hoped to unveil the document for an international conference in Germany on December 5, disputes over controversial night raids on Afghan homes and the running of detention centers could delay it well beyond that date, congressional staff who follow the issue say.


"I think a more realistic expectation is now at NATO in Chicago," one congressional aide said, asking not to be named, referring to a NATO summit planned for May 2012.


The sticking points are more evidence of strains in the U.S.-Afghan relationship as Western combat forces start leaving. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly criticized Western military tactics and said recently that Afghanistan would back neighboring Pakistan if it went to war with the United States.


Under an international agreement reached last year, local Afghan forces are to be in charge of security by the end of 2014, as Western forces withdraw. Thirty-three thousand of nearly 100,000 U.S. troops will leave by next September.


But the West will likely fund Afghanistan's police and army for years to come. Clinton made clear the United States would continue playing a role in security.


"We anticipate having a transition that does include security components, not only from the United States, but also from NATO," she told lawmakers last week.


U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General John Allen, who commands U.S. and NATO forces there, are working through some of the security cooperation issues with Karzai, Clinton said.


A U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the partnership document would agree to an extended U.S. troop presence in principle, and it might define broadly what types of things troops would do beyond 2014.


But the details such as troop numbers would be worked out in a subsequent "Status of Forces" agreement, he said.


HATED MILITARY TACTIC


Night raids, in which soldiers search Afghan homes for militants under the cover of darkness, have long been one of the most hated foreign military tactics in Afghanistan. Karzai has repeatedly denounced them and pushed for them to be halted altogether.


Many western military commanders see them as an important tool against the Taliban and other insurgents, however.


But some of the raids are led by Afghan forces. Afghan commanders must sign off on all raids, Afghan forces are often present for them and lead at least 25 percent of the raids, according to a recent report by the Open Society Foundations, which is backed by philanthropist George Soros, and The Liaison Office, a Kabul-based nongovernmental organization.


U.S. officials want to make transfer of authority over detention centers in Afghanistan "conditions-based," the congressional staffer said. In particular, they want to make sure detainees now held by foreign forces will be properly treated when they are transferred to Afghan control.


NATO has already stopped sending prisoners to some Afghan jails because of U.N. warnings of torture there.


A U.N. report last month said that Afghanistan's intelligence agency and police force have been "systematically" torturing detainees, including children, at a number of jails. The Afghan government rejected many of the allegations but conceded there may have been abuse.


The Washington Post reported last week that CIA, U.S. military and State Department officials were warned of abuses at one Kabul prison run by the Afghan intelligence service, but continued to transfer prisoners to the service's custody.


The United States is also concerned about the security of Afghan prisons. In April, hundreds of prisoners escaped from a jail in Kandahar in Afghanistan's southern Taliban heartland.


"The detainee issue is pretty difficult to resolve. I don't think we or the Afghans feel a lot of pressure to conclude this (agreement) quickly," said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official who chaired Obama's 2009 review of Afghan war policy.


A State Department official would not comment on the talks' substance, but said there was no hard deadline for the deal.


"We look forward to coming to agreement soon, but we are committed to the right agreement, not fast agreement."


(Additional reporting by Missy Ryan; Writing by Susan Cornwell; Editing by Warren Strobel and Eric Walsh)

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