CIA Officer Rates 9 Counterterrorism Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider

Uh, that's that's how it played out. There was never any intent to take Bin Laden alive. My name is John Kiryaku. I'm a former CIA counterterrorism officer and after the 9/11 attacks, I became the CIA's chief of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan where I led a series of raids that resulted in the capture of dozens of al-Qaeda fighters. I went on to be the chief investigator at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Today, we'll be looking at counterterrorism scenes in movies and TV and judging how real they are. Yeah, literally none of that is true to life. But that's that's what makes you love James Bond. First of all, I'll say almost no officers carried weapons. You have to be in a in a post that is rated as high or critical threat for uh terrorism. Uh, the only posts where I ever carried a gun were Athens and uh and Pakistan. Um, otherwise I was I was always unarmed. And you're not going to walk into Parliament just opening fire. That's just it's just not real life. You got me. Now here's your prize. Love it. that as part of this film was absolutely believable. In this James Bond movie, Raul is considered to be what's called a lonewolf terrorist. Somebody who's not a member of an organized group. He acts alone. Those are more prevalent than you might think. And the person who comes to mind most immediately is Carlos the Jackal. This is a guy who successfully kidnapped, get this, all at once, every single oil minister in OPEC. But for all intents and purposes, Carlos was a lone wolf. Attacking public transport is quite easy. Transportation is probably the weak link in our infrastructure. In Tokyo, there was an attack some years ago uh by uh Amrikio, terrorist group. It was more of a cult really that that adopted terrorism as a as a uh policy uh where they they spread poison gas through the ventilation system and killed a whole bunch of people.