Dave Davies
speaker
5,382 appearances
57 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Sep
Dave Davies’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Tabloid journalists were fascinated, and Carlos became such a cult figure that during one hijacking, a British pilot asks for his autograph.
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He would also inspire fictionalized
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Villains in novels and films, including Robert Ludlum's Born Identity series and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.
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Last year, Joby Warwick spoke with a now elderly Carlos at the French prison where he's lived for decades.
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Joby Warwick spent three decades at the Washington Post.
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He was last on Fresh Air to talk about his Pulitzer Prize winning book Black Flags, The Rise of ISIS.
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His new book is The Jackal, The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the world's first super terrorist.
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Joby Warwick, welcome back to Fresh Air.
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You know, you've been writing about contemporary national security issues for a long time.
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Um you did that great book on the origins of ISIS.
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What made you want to go back and cover this figure from an earlier era?
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Now this guy Carlos, he would have a long career of terrorism in Europe and the Middle East, really at a pretty young age, a at like college age.
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Um, but he actually came from South America.
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Uh tell us something about his background.
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So h he leaves college and he heads to the Middle East to join a Palestinian resistance group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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No longer exists, right?
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Um this was a a Marxist, very radical Palestinian group.
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And he came to work with a leader there, Wadi Haddad.
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This is an interesting moment in the Palestinian movement.
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This is nineteen
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