617: Daniel Levin | Finding a Missing Person in the Middle East
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Levin is an attorney, political commentator, and author of Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures Among the Powerful and Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East.
What We Discuss with Daniel Levin:- How the Syrian regime kidnaps westerners and blames the opposition, keeping them in captivity -- often for years -- as bargaining chips.
- How Daniel became the go-to person for hunting down a missing person in Syria when no government, embassy, or intelligence agency would help.
- What proof of life means in a kidnapping scenario, and how someone in search of a missing person goes about finding this.
- How people use leverage to get what they want from one another in a place where no one does a favor without wanting something in return.
- The nuances of negotiating with criminals.
- And much more...
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| 0:14.3 | First of all, I don't get involved in ransom negotiations. |
| 0:18.8 | And the reason I don't do that is a personal conviction where I'm deeply convinced |
| 0:23.1 | that the moment you open up discussions for ransom, you basically even if you get someone |
| 0:27.2 | out, you just ensure 10 new hostages. |
| 0:29.5 | I understand that it's heartbreaking and you just have to step away in situations. |
| 0:33.6 | There were cases including an American inseria where I was asked to get involved by a politician. |
| 0:40.4 | And when I called my friend to see if there was anything we could do, he said, |
| 0:43.5 | don't touch this one. They're negotiating a ransom behind your back that would be paid by the |
| 0:47.5 | Qataris. And this person ended up getting out because a ransom was paid. |
| 0:51.0 | But what I know is he gets out 10 more people get taken. |
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