Heading up a group of six militants, consisting of leftist Revolutionary Cells of both German and Palestinian militants, Carlos takes over the OPEC building, holding hostage the ministers and their accompanying delegations. Although the terrorist is at the peak of his media fame, by releasing the ministers to Algiers airport in exchange for a large ransom, he fails in the mission entrusted to him by Wadie Haddad. This is the basis of a rupture between the two men with Carlos later becoming a mercenary in the service of the highest bidder. First Syria and then Iraq. He sets up his base on the other side of the Iron Curtain between Budapest and East Berlin under the protection of the Stasi...
