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When You Meet Carlos the Jackal, Something Weird Happens... | Joby Warrick
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- Julian Dorey Daily
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- Sep 5, 2026
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WATCH FULL EPISODE: https://youtu.be/OCNkGL-4ZQI?si=PD0MrN01bp5rCev6 Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily JOBY'S LINKS - X: https://twitter.com/JobyWarrick - NEW "CARLOS THE JACKAL" BOOK: https://a.co/d/0fIq94lm Joby Warrick spent years pursuing the most elusive interview in international security journalism — a face to face conversation with Ilich Ramírez Sánchez the man the world knows as Carlos the Jackal sitting in his French prison cell. His new book The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos the World's First Super-Terrorist was published in August 2026 and draws on newly declassified archives secret police files long-repressed eyewitness accounts and that rare personal interview. Julian Dorey examines the full Carlos the Jackal story with Warrick — the 60s and 70s terror wave that produced him who Carlos actually was before the mythology the Venezuelan sleeper agent background how he eluded capture for twenty years the fable-like existence of a man who was the world's most wanted terrorist while living in Eastern European hotels the fact that he was the guy before Bin Laden the French prison conditions the French government's specific discomfort with Carlos getting access to a microphone how Joby hatched the idea to write the book the boogeyman figure Carlos represented when Warrick was a kid how Carlos moved to the Middle East and befriended people with massive charisma the son of a Communist attorney whose father considered Lenin the most important human ever to exist the Che Guevara hero worship the specific revelation that Carlos would say the right things but didn't give a crap about politics and the Bourne Identity connection. The who was Carlos thread is the episode's most historically significant and most immediately entertaining contribution. Let's roll back…