On December 21, 1975 Ahmed Zaki Yamani and the other oil ministers of the members of OPEC were taken hostage by a six-person team led by terrorist Carlos the Jackal ( which included Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann and Hans-Joachim Klein ), in Vienna, Austria, where the ministers were attending a meeting at the OPEC headquarters.

The most recent Jackal to have his jersey number retired was outfielder / infielder Zach Smithlin, who played for the Jackals from 2004 – 2009 and holds team records for most games played by a position player, runs scored, and stolen bases.

**** BRDM-2M-96ik " Szakal Plus " – ( Szakal – Jackal ) Because of the high risk of Polish vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan getting hit and destroyed or damaged by RPG launchers, in 2004 the WZMech design team fitted it with RPG fence all around vehicle, anti-cumulation screens, additional armour and internal anti-splinter mats.

The fictional Colonel Rodin from Jackal is also alluded to.

* 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as " Carlos the Jackal ," is captured.

The Egyptian Jackal ( Canis aureus lupaster ) also known as the African Wolf or Wolf Jackal is currently listed as a subspecies of the golden jackal but molecular and osteological data has established that it is a unique species in its own right.

As he was returning home from the skirmish, he decided to reveal his secret identity to her, only to find that she had left a note on her phone saying that she was staying the night with her date, Professor Miles Warren, Harry Osborn's hypnotist / therapist ( on Earth-616, Warren is the Jackal ).

The Day of the Jackal ( 1971 ) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

The murder is not reported until much later that evening, allowing the Jackal to assume one of his two emergency identities and board the train for Paris.

Lebel is faster, and shoots the Jackal with half a magazine-load of bullets, instantly killing him.

Once it is established that Calthrop really has been on holiday in Scotland and has no connection whatsoever with the Jackal, the British are left to wonder " If the Jackal wasn't Calthrop, then who the hell was he?

The Jackal is buried in an unmarked grave in a Paris cemetery, officially recorded as " an unknown foreign tourist, killed in a car accident.

However, the method of assassination employed by the novel's Jackal is quite different from Amir's murder of Rabin.

* The method for acquiring a false identity and UK passport detailed in the book is often referred to as the " Day of the Jackal fraud " and remains a well known security loophole in the UK.

He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan and The Cobra.

Forsyth's novels also feature famous personalities and political leaders as characters — The Day of the Jackal features the French president Charles de Gaulle and his interior minister, Roger Frey, who heads the government search for the assassin — the opening chapter is based on an actual attempt by the OAS to kill de Gaulle.

Huerta is still vilified by modern-day Mexicans, who generally refer to him as El Chacal (" The Jackal ") or El Usurpador (" The Usurper ").

* jackcc is an open-source compiler for the academic instruction set Jackal 3. 0.

Bourne and Marie learn that their attackers may be led by Carlos the Jackal, an assassin whose trademark execution is a bullet in the throat.

In The Death of Achilles the hired killer Achimas is mentioned as having been secretly hired by the Italian government to kill an anarchist nicknamed " The Jackal " who plans to kill King Umberto-yet Achimas himself bears considerable similarity to the hired killer nicknamed " The Jackal " who plans to kill Charles de Gaulle in Frederick Forsyth's " The Day of the Jackal ".

An example is The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal which made its first appearance In Europe some 900 years ago in Petrus Alphonsi's collection of tales, the Disciplina Clericalis ( which, according to E. L. Ranelagh, could be translated as " a course of study for the reader ").

Later, the Jackal equipped wrestler Maxwell Markham with the costume and powerful exoskeleton of the Grizzly and sent him to assassinate newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson.

It appeared that as though the original Jackal was killed by the Queen ; however, in the aftermath of Spider-Island it was revealed that the Jackal who died was one of the clones, and the real Jackal had kept his distance the entire time.

* " Dark Star ", by Jackal & Hyde

* Canadian Forces-small numbers ( M1113 and M1117 ) in use by JTF-2 and CSOR in Afghanistan ; to be replaced by Jackal ( MWMIK ).

One of the first instances when it was used by militants was on 13 January 1975 at the Orly airport in France, when Carlos the Jackal, together with another member from the PFLP, used two Soviet RPG-7 grenades to attack an Israeli El Al airliner.

Noteworthy examples of the journalistic style and successful integration of fictional characters with historical events were the politico – military novels The Day of the Jackal ( 1971 ) by Frederick Forsyth and Eye of the Needle ( 1978 ) by Ken Follett.

On August 18, 2011 an adaption of Talisman of Death was released by UK developer Laughing Jackal for the PlayStation Minis platform ( playable on the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 ).

A fictionalized version of this attack was recreated in the 1971 book by Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal, and in the 1973 film of the same name.

The OAS featured prominently in the novel The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, and its film adaptation.

However, by the end of the 1990s, his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films like The Jackal, Mercury Rising, and Breakfast of Champions, saved only by the success of the Michael Bay-directed Armageddon which was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide.

In 1997, the group contributed to the film soundtrack of The Jackal, recording " Superpredators ( Metal Postcard )", a number containing a sample of Siouxsie and the Banshees ' " Mittageisen " and " Dissolved Girl ", a new song with vocals by Sarah Jay ( which was later remixed for the next album ).

Horace Andy was invited back to sing on three songs, including " Angel " and a track the band made for the film The Jackal, " Dissolved Girl ", sung by Sara Jay, was remixed for inclusion on the record.

From that time until the early 1990s, the Mid-Ulster Brigade was led by Robin " the Jackal " Jackson, who then passed the leadership to Billy Wright.

" However, Universal then offered him the chance to direct The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 ), based on the best-selling suspense novel by Frederick Forsyth.

Zinnemann was intrigued by the opportunity to direct a film in which the audience would already be able to guess the ending ( the Jackal failing his mission ), and was pleased when it ultimately became a hit with the public.

The Day of the Jackal was followed four years later by Julia ( 1977 ), based on the book Pentimento by Lillian Hellman.

Rather, she was infected with a virus by Jackal along with Mary Jane.

Stasi files opened after 1989 indicated that the bombing was carried out by a group under the direction of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ( AKA Carlos the Jackal ), and paid for by Nicolae Ceauşescu, president of Romania.

The success of Seven Days in May ( 1962 ) by Fletcher Knebel, The Day of the Jackal ( 1971 ) by Frederick Forsyth, and The Manchurian Candidate ( 1959 ) by Richard Condon established this sub-genre.

Unusually, the book presents the nominal " villains " – Tracy and Jeff – as sympathetic and kind-hearted, while the pursuing detective, Cooper, is presented as almost psychotic ; this could be a reversal of the classic " bloodhound detective " chasing a smart and elusive enemy, as in The Day of the Jackal.