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With the right kind of swagger, the holder of a first-class ticket could stroll onto a jet with few questions asked. In 1969, Leila Khaled, a twenty-five-year-old P.F.L.P. recruit, was one of a pair who hijacked a T.W.A. flight to Tel Aviv and redirected it to Damascus, where they released the passengers and blew up the nose of the plane. The operation was effectively a press release backed by guns and explosives:
With the right kind of swagger, the holder of a first-class ticket could stroll onto a jet with few questions asked. In 1969, Leila Khaled, a twenty-five-year-old P.F.L.P. recruit, was one of a pair who hijacked a T.W.A. flight to Tel Aviv and redirected it to Damascus, where they released the passengers and blew up the nose of the plane. The operation was effectively a press release backed by guns and explosives:
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the Palestinians had taken their fate into their own hands in the form of a chic, press-savvy young Arab woman.
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Carlos era il più eccentrico tra gli ultras dell’epoca, con un debole per l’alta moda, la seduzione e le auto sportive. Ma, come scrive Burke, la sua carriera «non mise in luce la forza della “lotta armata” rivoluzionaria internazionale quanto piuttosto il suo incipiente declino». C'era un nuovo attore in Medio Oriente. Dopo l'assassinio del presidente egiziano Anwar Sadat, nel 1981, Carlos era furioso, convinto che qualche altra organizzazione di estrema sinistra lo avesse preceduto. In realtà, Sadat era stato ucciso da un gruppo che presto sarebbe stato conosciuto come Jihad Islamica, e Carlos non era l'unico a non averne mai sentito parlare.
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