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In the film Verges is an enigmatic figure who enjoys enhancing his own myths.
Terror’s Advocate 2009
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The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt finds the doc "fascinating": "The key thing about Verges is that he was born in Thailand in 1924 or 1925 - even here he apparently is slippery - to a mother from Vietnam and a father from Reunion Island, the Indian Ocean island that is part of France.
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Michael Radu, an expert on terrorism and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, calls Verges a trailblazer for radical lawyers everywhere.
Asia Times Online 2009
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Verges defended German Magdalena Kopp, wife of Carlos the Jackal and may have been her lover.
Terror’s Advocate 2009
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What will surprise is the breadth and veracity of Jacques Verges activities over the last half century.
Terror’s Advocate 2009
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Verges here are kept low by hay rattle, allowing northern marsh orchids to flourish – I counted 109 plants.
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The bad news is that famed French lawyers Jacques Verges and Roland Dumas have flown to Libya to meet victims of the allied bombing and say they plan to pursue the allied leaders for war crimes.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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I was using Verges as a way to tell the history of terrorism, using him to lead us into the world of terrorism.
Terror’s Advocate 2009
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Verges here are kept low by hay rattle, allowing northern marsh orchids to flourish – I counted 109 plants.
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Verges seems to have had a lifelong sexual attraction to terrorist women such as Djamila and Magdalena.
Terror’s Advocate 2009
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