Dave Davies
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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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And it's interesting because people who become revolutionaries, they can get there a lot of different ways, and sometimes they're simply intellectuals who are, you know, convinced of the unfairness of the existing system and the the unfairness of the capitalist system, and that only a socialist revolution can change that.
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Um, it doesn't seem that Carlos had any particular contact with the oppressed people his revolutionary efforts were supposed to help, did he?
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Another attack I wanted to talk about was um sometime this is in in the mid-70s, and uh there was a decision to try and take down an Israeli airliner taking off at the Orley Airport outside of Paris.
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And what's remarkable about this is that the way they were going to do this was to bring rocket powered grenade launchers and try try and actually hit the plane as it took off.
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They were able to get right next to the runway and fire a shot.
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Didn't take the plane down.
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It did, I think, did do damage to elsewhere on on on the the airfield.
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And then six days later, they come back to try again, and there are police around the runway, but
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They are able to take these grenade launchers inside their trench coats into the airport terminal to try again.
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Again failed.
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I mean, it's just so striking how little security there was.
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Carlos had gotten a start in this business in the n in the mid seventies and he was still working with this Palestinian group.
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Um in June of nineteen seventy-five there would be an incident which would really cement his fame.
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I mean he was anonymous an anonymous guy to law enforcement at the time.
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Um and this it began with the shootout in a Paris apartment.
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Um Carlos's boss within the Palestinian group he was worked with, a guy who was sort of the director of their European operations who went by the name of Andrew
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had been identified by French authorities and arrested, and under interrogation he told them too much, and led them to the apartment of one of Carlos's many girlfriends.
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As it happened, there was a party going on.
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Carlos was there,
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And so three French policemen coming in, remarkably none of them armed, and
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