Carlos myth stalks the city of hired guns

The Independent - London | August 19, 1994| | Copyright

WE WERE lunching beside the ruins of the old St Georges Hotel when a Lebanese friend, the wife of a Beirut merchant, approached us. "So you've got Carlos," she said. `You' meant me, us, the West. But her small daughter was puzzled. "Who's Carlos?" she asked. And quick as a flash, the woman, a Christian who could not be more Westernised, replied: "He was a member of the resistance."

And there it was, the same Beirut ambivalence we came across all over town in the hot and steamy 24 hours we had spent searching for the footprints of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez. Even after the portly, middle-aged ...

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