A Blast from the Past, Ilyich Ramirez Loses his Way, What Would Ulyanov Say………
“Mr. Chávez, 55, who exchanged elaborately written correspondence with Mr. Ramírez early in his presidency, taps a small but persistent well of support in Venezuela for Mr. Ramírez, born here in 1949 to Altagracia Ramírez, a wealthy Marxist lawyer who named his other two sons Vladimir and Lenin. One Caracas group, the Committee for the Repatriation of Ilich Ramírez, wants Mr. Ramírez transferred from France to Venezuela. Vea, a pro-Chávez newspaper accused of fostering anti-Semitism, closely follows Mr. Ramírez’s life in prison and calls him a “revolutionary compatriot demonized in international Judaism’s media campaigns.” It is not uncommon here for pro-government media to attribute to a Jewish conspiracy episodes like the predicament of Mr. Ramírez, who was seized in a hospital room in Sudan in 1994 by French agents acting on a tip from the C.I.A. and then wrapped in a burlap bag and flown to Paris on an executive jet. Mr. Chávez, who expelled Israel’s ambassador here in January before severing diplomatic ties with Israel, said Friday that he viewed Mr. Ramírez’s detention through the prism of pro-Palestinian causes, calling his countryman “one of the great fighters of the Palestine Liberation Organization.”…….....”
Ilyich has clearly come a long way; he has lost his way since the Vienna assault on that familiar building on Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring in 1975. Especially since landing in the French prison. He was betrayed by Bin Laden’s very own hosts in Sudan. Later he extolled the arch-Salafi fundamentalist Bin Laden and his merry band of killers…….
His “intellectual” fate almost reflects the journey of many former Arab “progressives”. Most of those are not praising Bin Laden; they are occupied full-time praising various royal families, particularly one royal family that dominates Arab media these days.
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