John Kiriakou

It was the first 540 in Greece to the point where we couldn't even insure it.

We had to insure it through a company in Germany because I needed a big engine to carry all that armor.

And Stephen was making fun of me.

We were standing.

It was Stephen, the French, the American attache, and me.

And Stephen was making fun of me in a friendly way.

And he said, you Americans...

You're so paranoid about security.

He says, this is an EU country.

It's a NATO country.

What are you so afraid of?

And everybody chuckled.

And I said, you Brits live in a dream world.

If you think that because they have pretty beaches and palm trees, that they're not going to kill you if they have the chance.

Believe me, if they have the chance, they're going to kill you.

And then they killed him.

As an assassination.

They assassinated him in broad daylight on the main road from our neighborhood to the British and American embassies in April of 2000.

I was about a quarter of a mile behind him when they killed him.

A taxi driver pulled him out of the car and rushed him to a hospital.