Lawyers fear 'Carlos the Jackal' is dying
PARIS - The man known as Carlos the Jackal refused food and water
for a sixth full day Monday to protest his treatment in prison, and his
lawyers claim he is weakening and preparing mentally for death. Ilich
Ramirez Sanchez was once considered the world's most wanted
terrorist. He is serving a term of life in prison for the 1975 murders
of
two French investigators and a Lebanese, and is under investigation for
as many as four terrorist attacks in France. Ramirez has been held in
solitary confinement since French agents snared him in Khartoum,
Sudan, on Aug. 15, 1994, then hauled him to Paris in a sack. His
lawyers say Ramirez, 49, began fasting last Tuesday to protest his
solitary confinement and other conditions.