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What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.

Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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.

And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.

If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.