d and they were sent back to Damascus on the return flight. A month later, aided by the Syrians, he and his party managed to slip quietly into Jordan undetected. Curiously, neither the DST nor any other agency, tried to apprehend him during his travels. Soon after his arrival in Amman, the Jordanian authorities became aware of his presence and allowed him to stay for several months. During this time Carlos left Magdelana Kopp for another woman, a twenty-three-year-old Jordanian named Abdel Salam Adhman Jarrar Lana. The separation was amiable with Kopp retaining custody of their daughter and in company with her mother-in-law, left Jordan to live in Venezuela. Within weeks, Carlos married Abdel under Moslem law, which allows polygamy. For the next two years, Carlos continued his search for a country that would provide him with a safe haven and eventually, after having been rejected by Cyprus and Iran, he settled in Khartoum in the Sudan under the protection of Sheik Hassan al-Turabi, the powerful Moslem fundamentalist leader. Carlos quickly settled in to his new life in Khartoum spending much of his time socialising and revelling at the local nightclubs and restaurants, blissfully unaware that his life of relative freedom would soon be at an end.In order to retrieve Carlos from his new hiding place, the French government knew that their only option was to convince the Sudanese to give him up. After inviting the heads of the two Sudanese intelligence sections to Paris, the DST and the DGSE offered to sell them much needed communications equipment and even supplied them with satellite pictures of their enemies positions. The courtship seemed to be going well when the CIA received a tip that gave the exact location of Carlos. The French immediately sent Phillipe Rondot, the intelligence officer who had previously tracked Carlos down to Algiers and Colombia, to Sudan to confirm if the information was correct. On his arrival he met ...
