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By the 1990s, he was serving in Sudan tracking terrorist leaders Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin Laden. Following the September 11 attacks , Waugh, by then aged 71, joined ODA 594 as one of the first on the ground during the U.S. invasion .
Billy Waugh's nonfiction book Hunting the Jackal (2004) reveals the CIA operation in Sudan to locate and photograph Carlos, which led to his arrest in Khartoum. David Yallop 's book To the Ends of the Earth: The Hunt for the Jackal (1993) is a detailed account of Yallop's attempts through the 1980s to unearth the true story of Carlos, as he ...
On 13 and 19 January 1975, El Al aircraft at Paris-Orly Airport, France were subject to attempted RPG attacks by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists led by Carlos the Jackal. While the intended attacks failed, collateral damage was suffered and the second attack resulted in gunfighting and a seventeen-hour hostage ...
Retired Sgt. Maj. Billy Waugh had a 50-year-long career between Special Forces and the CIA. Waugh, who was born and raised in Bastrop and died last year, could have his name added to the city's ...
Carlos led his team past two Austrian police officers in the building's lobby and up to the first floor, where a police officer, an Iraqi plainclothes security guard and a young Libyan economist, Yusuf al-Azmarly, were shot dead. As Carlos entered the conference room and fired shots into the ceiling, the delegates ducked under the table.
Carlos, also known as Carlos the Jackal, [2] is a 2010 French-German biographical film and television miniseries about the life of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, nicknamed Carlos the Jackal, covering his first series of attacks in 1973 until his arrest in 1994.
Carlos the Jackal on behalf of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia The bombing of the French consulate in West Berlin was a terrorist bomb attack targeting the Maison de France consulate on the Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin , West Germany on 25 August 1983.
The hostage-taking by the PFLP-allied JRA in The Hague had also been orchestrated by Carlos according to prosecutors. The Paris attack was said to have finally pressured the French government into releasing the jailed JRA member. Carlos personally claimed responsibility for the attack in a 1979 interview with an Arab magazine, which he later ...