John Kiriakou
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raided the OPEC oil ministers meeting in Vienna, Austria, and kidnapped every single minister of oil.
They killed three people, says there.
He demanded a plane, flew everybody to Libya, took his billion dollars ransom that they gave him, and then let everybody go.
So he was just trying to get a bag, really, huh?
Oh, yeah, and he was good at it.
And then he was so good at it, he set up terrorist training camps in Libya and Lebanon, and he trained the IRA, the Irish Republican Army.
He trained Greece's revolutionary organization, 17 November, the Red Brigades, the Action Direct.
He was a true believing communist.
And he just wanted to bring down the West.
Something terrible is going to happen.
But what do you do at that point?
Well, see, that's the key.
We didn't know what to do.
So we're going to the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis, this one and that one.
And they're like, we don't know what's going on.
Well, as it turned out, that wasn't true.