Terrorism inc.: Nazi, "Palestinian" Islamic land Revolutionary

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Another connection that bridges this historical cooperation between the far right and far left into the modern age of terrorism is that between Carlos the Jackal and the Swiss Nazi Francois Genoud. Genoud's life, in fact, spans the history of this collaboration. 

Francois Genoud was an early admirer and proponent of Adolf Hitler's, and a founder of the National Front, a Swiss Nazi party.

Genoud met and befriended Haj Amin al-Husseini and worked with him to recruit Arabs into the service of the Nazis. He also set up the Banque Commerciale Arabe in Geneva with Syrian money and ran the Banque Populaire Arabe in newly independent Algeria. In the early 1960s Genoud helped fund Eichmann's legal defense and in the 1980s that of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie in France. When three PFLP terrorists were arrested after an attack on an El Al plane in Zurich in 1969, Genoud helped pay for their legal defense as well.

Genoud would say, even in his later life, that Hitler's actions were "proper and in support ofpeace."
Evidence has come out since Genoud's death that he was also the financial manager for the Swiss assets of the Nazis after World War.

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In May 1996 it was announced that bankers in Switzerland had agreed to cooperate with Jewish leaders to delve into the normally secretive Swiss banking system and government files to search for assets of Holocaust victims. Less than a month later, on May 30, Genoud drank a poison cocktail and committed suicide.

Though he had been a committed Nazi, Genoud spent his life helping to finance and facilitate the terrorist actions of many left-wing groups and individuals. He also paid for the defense of Carlos the Jackal after he was arrested in France in 1994. Genoud described the left-wing Carlos as being accepting of his extreme-right past: “He knew my past. I never hid it. I was always accepted. Carlos would write to Genoud from prison

Carlos would write to Genoud from prison in France, "In this period of revolutionary ebb, men of your vision and faith in Victory are more necessary than ever."

Like Genoud's trail of money, Carlos the Jackal's trail of blood runs throughout the history of terrorism over the last forty years, and his collaborations with fellow terrorists also ran the ideological gamut. In his book Revolutionary Islam, Carlos coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States.”

The book, written in French, announced Carlos's conversion to Islam and promoted his strategy for "the destruction of the United States through an orchestrated and persistent campaign of terror." The book calls on "all revolutionaries, including those of the left, even atheists," to follow the leadership of lslamist terrorists such as Osama bin Laden to turn Afghanistan and Iraq into "graveyards of American imperialism."

Carlos's book would be little noticed until Hugo Chavez, speaking to a gathering of worldwide socialist politicians in November 2009, called him an important revolutionary fighter who supported the Palestinian cause. Chávez said during his televised speech that Carlos had been unfairly convicted and added, "They accuse him of being a terrorist, but Carlos really was a revolutionary fighter." Chávez punctuated the point by calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe his "brothers" and that stated that the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin wasn't that bad either.