[Diogenesis]

"This just in. Venezuela' Lenin Ramirez Sanchez, electrical engineer from the Central University of Venezuela,
and brother of "Carlos the Jackal", is director of the oil ministry.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Carlos and Osama Jackal book hails militant Islam as the new 'revolution' ***Carlos the Jackal, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, praises Osama Bin Laden's "shining" example in a selection of writings from his prison cell in France which went on sale on Thursday.***

November 2001 - Remember, a name is for life ***Some years ago, a Venezuelan lawyer with Marxist sympathies named his three sons Vladimir, Illich and Lenin. Well, if revolutionaries were what he wanted, he certainly got his wish with one: Illich Ramirez Sanchez grew up to be the international terrorist better known as Carlos the Jackal. Who knows what effect being named after a Russian Bolshevik had on the boy? Let's hope that baby Osama doesn't feel he's got something to live up to. ***