Today is Sunday, August 14th, 2022.

On this day in 1994, infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal was arrested.

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Today we're covering the arrest of one of the Cold War era's most notorious

terrorists, Elich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal. Now let's go back to Khartoum

Sudan on August 14, 1994. French authorities were desperate to get their man.

For over two decades, they'd been chasing Carlos the Jackal,

and now they were finally ready to move on the infamous killer.

Running out of contacts and resources in Europe, Carlos and his wife had to find somewhere

to hide.

So Carlos looked for a place where the French couldn't easily follow or extradite him.

For ten years, he mainly hid in Syria.

The Syrian president himself helped to protect the Marxist revolutionary, but eventually

Carlos fell out of favor with him too and had to flee again.

Sudan was his next choice.

The country was known to house several enemies of the West and lacked an extradition treaty

with France.

He thought he'd be safe, but the French intelligence service was one step

ahead. What Carlos didn't realize was that the Sudanese government saw him as a tool. The

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