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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Our guest is veteran national security correspondent Joby Warwick, whose new book profiles a terrorist of the nineteen seventies and eighties, who became so famous for his brazen attacks and Playboy lifestyle that once when he was releasing hostages from a hijacked airplane, several asked him for his autograph.
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Warwick, whose last book about the origins of ISIS earned a Pulitzer Prize, believes there are lessons to learn from the life and crimes of his new subject, a notorious figure from the early days of modern terrorism.
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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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We can't talk about all of the crimes that Carlos had a r had a hand in.
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There are just too many, but there's one that we should get mentioned, and that is the 1975 assault in Vienna at a meeting of officials of OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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Um Carlos had a band of six people.
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This was financed by Moammar Gaddafi, right?
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Um he had a grudge against OPEC, wanted to wanted them to keep their prices higher.
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And so Carlos organizes this group.
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He has a band of six people from three different countries, two Palestinians and one German who those three only spoke a few words of English.
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And so on a snowy day, they traveled to the headquarters of OPEC on a city streetcar carrying these big duffel bags full of munitions.
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Again, you can just see how lacked security was.
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Walked right into the
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Um, and started shooting.
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Now y your your book is this is a fascinating episode.
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I think it's forty pages to describe the whole thing.
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It's amazing the detail you got here.
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You wanna just kinda give us a general sense of what happened and where it left Carlos?
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