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At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

They were willing to do anything to stop me.

I could never take orders from anyone.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.