Delighted to have you here. I was terrified when i heard we were going to be hosting a president of a country the last week of august. I thought who the hell is going to be here . Nobody comes the last week of august. Im so glad to see all of you here. This is a very important conversation today. Im very flattered we have this opportunity to host president chaves as he is wellknown in washington. He has been here so many years, but we welcome you back now as president. One of his inaugural gifts was a cyberattack. It clobbered costa rica and became a catastrophe in the making. This became an opportunity. Crises frequently become opportunities, and it became an opportunity for us to work more closely with a crucial ally. This is a crucial partner country. When we had a problem of this scale, we were honored to work with them, so were delighted to have you here, president. We had a good meeting yesterday with President Biden. I dont know if you will get a question or two to figure out wh
Delighted to have you here. I was terrified when i heard we were going to be hosting a president of a country the last week of august. I thought who the hell is going to be here . Nobody comes the last week of august. Im so glad to see all of you here. This is a very important conversation today. Im very flattered we have this opportunity to host president chaves as he is wellknown in washington. He has been here so many years, but we welcome you back now as president. One of his inaugural gifts was a cyberattack. It clobbered costa rica and became a catastrophe in the making. This became an opportunity. Crises frequently become opportunities, and it became an opportunity for us to work more closely with a crucial ally. This is a crucial partner country. When we had a problem of this scale, we were honored to work with them, so were delighted to have you here, president. We had a good meeting yesterday with President Biden. I dont know if you will get a question or two to figure out wh
Delighted to have you here. I was terrified when i heard we were going to be hosting a president of a country the last week of august. I thought who the hell is going to be here . Nobody comes the last week of august. Im so glad to see all of you here. This is a very important conversation today. Im very flattered we have this opportunity to host president chaves as he is wellknown in washington. He has been here so many years, but we welcome you back now as president. One of his inaugural gifts was a cyberattack. It clobbered costa rica and became a catastrophe in the making. This became an opportunity. Crises frequently become opportunities, and it became an opportunity for us to work more closely with a crucial ally. This is a crucial partner country. When we had a problem of this scale, we were honored to work with them, so were delighted to have you here, president. We had a good meeting yesterday with President Biden. I dont know if you will get a question or two to figure out wh
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Will not solve the problem. The challenges dealing with hostage taking in the middle east is the challenges us dealing with the middle east. How to sort out our enemies from our friends. Thank you very much. [applause]. But also the lone wolfs, meaning that particularly now as we are seeming to take over the people who came to watch a movie, opened fire and all that, and obviously we have to think about also the future in terms of the environment of the socalled lone wolf now to weaponize, lets say, ebola and take over, you know, entire communities hostage. Let me move on to our friend and colleague, dr. Wayne zaideman, as i mentioned, with his experience for decades at the fbi but also academically. He has a doctorate from nyu on iran, and i asked him to share with us his experiences in the middle east and elsewhere. Thank you, professor yonah. When i took a crisis hostage negotiations course in the fbi in the early 90s, it was focused basically on criminal hostages. And when i asked