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| Carlos the Jackal faces new trial | Carlos the Jackal faces new trial |
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| Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - better known as Carlos the Jackal - is to be tried in France over a series of bombings in the 1980s that left at least 11 dead. | Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - better known as Carlos the Jackal - is to be tried in France over a series of bombings in the 1980s that left at least 11 dead. |
| Carlos, 57, is already serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murders of two French intelligence agents and an informer. | |
| Leading anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has ordered the new trial. | Leading anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has ordered the new trial. |
| Carlos earned international notoriety as a mastermind of fatal bomb attacks, assassinations and hostage-takings. | Carlos earned international notoriety as a mastermind of fatal bomb attacks, assassinations and hostage-takings. |
| 'Rotting democracies' | |
| The new trial will be on charges relating to "killings and destruction of property using explosive substances" in France in 1982 and 1983. | |
| In addition to those killed, more than 100 people were injured. | |
| Carlos was seized from a hospital room in Sudan in 1994 and hauled to Paris by French agents inside a sack. | |
| He was sentenced to life imprisonment in France in 1997. | |
| In a book published in 2003, Carlos praised al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden as a "shining" example. | |
| Carlos, a Venezuelan citizen and a convert to Islam, says: "From now on terrorism is going to be more or less a daily part of the landscape of your rotting democracies." |