PARIS — Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan who symbolized Cold War terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison — again — in a Paris trial that ended late Thursday with his rallying for revolution and weeping for Moammar Gadhafi.

Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, hasn't seen freedom since French agents spirited him out of Sudan in a sack in 1994. He's already serving a life sentence in a French prison for a triple murder in 1975, the worst punishment meted out in a country that does not have the death penalty.

The former gun-for-hire and self-proclaimed revolutionary was escorted out of his cell and back to court last month to face charges that he instigated four bombings in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people and injured more than 140 others.

Just before midnight Thursday, the court found Ramirez guilty in all four attacks and sentenced him to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 18 years.

Ramirez, 62, denied any role in the attacks. His lawyer and romantic partner, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, said he will appeal.

Lawyers for the victims welcomed the long-awaited verdict, nearly three decades after the bloody bombings.