‘Jackal plans A-bomb strike’

Press, 18 September 1976, Page 6

‘Jackal plans A-bomb strike’

NZPA Washington Carlos, the international playboy terrorist also known as the “Jackal,” is hiding in a West European country with a small nuclear bomb he apparently intends to use in a terrorist attack, according to the Cairo newspaper, “Al Akhbar.”

The 'paper says that Carlos, who is from Venezuela and whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is hiding in an Arab embassy. The United States has lodged an angry protest with the Yugoslavs for letting Carlos slip away after he was reported in Belgrade this week. Yugoslavia has denied the charge. American State Department officials have said they ' gave the Yugoslav Government full details about the whereabouts of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aged 27, a Venezuelan commonly known as Carlos or the “Jackal,” and asked that he be apprehended.

A State Department spokesman, Mr Frederick Brown, said the department had supplied enough details of Carlos’s whereabouts that the Yugoslav's “could have nabbed him had they wished? 1

Carlos ’ was the organiser of the kidnapping of Arab oil ministers meeting in Vienna in 1975, and a State Department official said he appears to have organised the hijack in June of a French jet that culminated in the dramatic rescue of hostages by Israeli commandos from the airport at Entebbe, Uganda. Yugoslavia said, however, that security checks had given them no clue that the international guerrilla Carlos and other guerrillas had recently visited Belgrade. But the Foreign Ministry spokesman told a press conference in Belgrade that Yugoslav security and the country’s sect’.jn of Interpol had not detected their presence. He said the Foreign Ministry had informed the West German Ambassador of this because the Bonn Government had shown an interest.

Diplomatic sources said on Tuesday that two Western diplomats believed they saw Carlos leave Belgrade for Bagdad on Friday. The diplomats told colleagues they had been warned that Carlos was coming and had seen him arrive from Algeria on September 6. the sources added.