Danny Gold
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4,199 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Danny Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Mujahideen, those fighting the Soviets, they did their share of fighting and destroying things as well, of course.
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Now it wasn't all of them, but some of them also did their share, the lion's share really, of growing and smuggling opium.
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So you're growing all this poppy, you got a whole bunch of opium, but no one in in Berlin or London is looking to cop opium every day on the corners.
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What they're looking for is heroin.
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And like we said above, that heroin market is dried up.
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Supply and demand and heroin, you can't, you can make a fortune off of it way more than you can with opium.
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You just gotta refine it, run it through the labs.
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And our Fred Ayuba Fridi, that's something he is going to perfect.
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Getting ahead of myself here.
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Because there's a whole lot more going on in Pakistan.
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I'm quote heavy in the beginning of this episode, but that's because there's so much good work on this.
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Says Peter's quote A multiparty, multinational insurgent force known as the Mujahideen received military training, logistical support, and safe haven in neighboring Pakistan, as well as billions of dollars in covert funding from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other countries.
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The resistance lasted nine years during which fighting destroyed much of the country's limited agricultural infrastructure.
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Yeah.
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Prompting growing numbers of pork farmers to plant poppy, a sturdy crop that requires little irrigation and does not
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I bl I mean it was allied with the US, even though the relations were were tense.
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Like they burned down the embassy at one point and all that sort of stuff.
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But I I believe it was I I honestly am not sure, but I know we worked with them very closely in uh in in the war in Afghanistan.
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think s yeah, I think at
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they played they they played both sides, I think, a little bit too.
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