He learned Arabic and invented an elaborate cover story involving a dead wife: 25-year-old Dalal Mujahad from Jenin, tragically killed by an Israeli bullet while pregnant with their child. "My aim was to understand terrorism in the same way that I came to understand skinheads or prostitute-traffickers." Salas's previous undercover investigations – as a skinhead supporter of Real Madrid football club, and in the world of prostitute-trafficking – had taken him to the heart of some of the most violent groups in Spain. "I wanted to know what goes through the mind of a person who is capable of killing for an ideology." He had been as stunned as other Spaniards by the blasts, despite the country's experience of Basque terrorist group Eta. Salas decided to go undercover with his hidden cameras after the bombings that killed 191 people on Madrid commuter trains on 11 March 2004. "It is a strange sensation when a self-confessed assassin like Carlos the Jackal does that, and offers their friendship." "He was very worried about my security," says Salas. The Jackal would call from La Santé prison in Paris, where he is still serving a life sentence for murder.
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