Danny Golds
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Danny Golds’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the months after 9-11, reporting surfaces, most prominently in the Indian magazine Outlook, and an analysis by the veteran Indian intelligence writer B. Raman, claiming that the ISI, at the CIA's request, quietly released Ayub Afridi so that he could do for the new American war what he'd done for the old one against the Soviets.
Work his tribal networks across the Durand Line, which is the line that splits Afghanistan and Pakistan, this time to rally Pashtun tribes against the Taliban.
The old smuggler becomes an instrument of the new war on terror.
Per that reporting, the mission went absolutely nowhere.
The tribes were not buying it and the asset produced nothing.
And I want to be completely clear about the sourcing.
No American agency has ever confirmed a word of it.
No Pakistani agency has ever confirmed a word of it.
How much do you trust Indian publications on Pakistani things like this?
I don't know.
Sean, you tell me.
And it remains attributed reporting, not established fact.
But I will say this, out of the three reasons I mentioned, it does kind of line up with the calendar, though there is a fourth explanation, which I think is probably like the, what is it, Occam's razor one, which is that in a notoriously corrupt system, he just bribed his way out with the massive amounts of money that he had.
No Indian commenters have ever yelled at me and called me an idiot for saying that there was a desert outside Karachi, which if you Google it, there is.
It's called what?
Damn, damn beach desert, dude.
It's less than two hours to the center of Karachi.
It's like 80 kilometers.
That's right outside Karachi, man.
You know, come on.
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