Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week from the 1990s, the capture of the world's most notorious terror suspect Carlos the Jackal.

What did he look like?

Look like a big fat badass to me.

But you were fairly confident that that was him.

Everything fit because I don't think anybody else would be tailoring around Carlos's wife, but Carlos.

Also, the warnings that were ignored about the 9-11 attacks.

We held a press conference halfway through our fairly brief presentation.

One of the journalists got up and left.

He was asked why he was leaving and he said,

none of this is going to happen anyway.

And the Sneeches, Yurtel the Turtle, the Lorax, the Cat and the Hat.

We hear how the Grinch himself, Dr Zeus, became America's favorite children's author,

despite having his first book turned down more

than 30 times.

But we begin this week in Kashmir, where the tense status quo of recent decades has been

upset by the decision of the Indian Prime Minister Norendra

Modi to end the region's special status under the Indian Constitution.

For 70 years that special status had granted the Muslim majority certain privileges such as prohibiting

non-Kashmereies from owning property in Kashmir. Thousands of troops have been deployed in

the Indian-administered part of the region which was divided between India and

Pakistan back in 1947 shortly after partition and independence from Britain.

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