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Bhutto's brother proposed
WTC attack in 1991: Carlos

Carlos the Jackal, once the world's most wanted man, has told an Arabic daily that the late Mir Murtaza Bhutto, brother of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, had proposed the idea of using an airplane to hit targets in the United States as early as 1991.

Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez and who is currently serving a life sentence in France, told Al-Hayat that following the Gulf War, Bhutto mooted the idea at a meeting of "anti-imperialist organisations" at an undisclosed location.

"The martyr Mir Murtaza Bhutto, secretary general of the Pakistani Zulfikar Organisation, raised the idea of hitting the World Trade Centre in New York with an airplane," he said in response to questions submitted through his lawyer.

The groups had affirmed "the need to respond with explosions in the United States" to the "terrible destruction in Iraq" inflicted by the US, he said.

Bhutto, who was shot dead by police near his Karachi residence on September 19, 1996, had formed the Al-Zulfikar Organisation to avenge the execution of his father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was overthrown in a military coup in 1977.

Carlos was arrested in 1994 in Sudan and extradited to France.

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