'The Informant' | Ep. 2: Dangerous Dan

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ABC News

True Crime

4.0 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today we bring you Ep. 2 of "Truth and Lies: The Informant," a new five-part series from ABC Audio that tells the remarkable story of an ordinary man who risked his life as an FBI informant to stop what would've been one of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Follow along and listen to the next episode right now on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3wgRdzb), Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3XFQm6X), Amazon Music (https://amzn.to/3ksWvFj), or your app of choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	2020 fans, this is Dick Lair, host of Truth and Lies, the Informant.
0:04.9	In this week, we're bringing you the second episode of our five-part series,
0:09.2	about an everyday man who's recruited by the FBI to help thwart a terror attack.
0:14.8	If you like it, we'll have the rest of the series right here for you in the coming weeks.
0:19.6	Or you can get new episodes as soon as they post by following Truth and Lies, the Informant.
0:26.0	Truth and Lies, the Informant is brought to you by Progressive, where drivers who saved by
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0:41.8	by new customers surveyed who saved with Progressive between June 2021 and May 2022.
0:48.2	Potential savings will vary.
0:49.7	This episode features secret FBI recordings that contain profanity and other offensive language,
0:57.2	we're including them in their unedited form to convey the full impact of this hateful rhetoric.
1:11.9	From ABC Audio, this is Truth and Lies, the Informant.
1:16.2	Episode 2 Dangerous Dan
1:26.8	By the time Dan Day agreed to be an FBI informant, back in 2015,
1:32.4	Eiffra Ahmed had already lived in Garden City for a couple of years.
1:36.0	My whole life I've been a nomad, Betty.
1:38.7	Cancer's became my home.
1:41.6	She'd grown used to seeing many faces that reminded her of Somalia,
1:45.3	the place where she was born, but ultimately had to flee.
1:49.9	Many of her neighbors were refugees as well.
1:53.2	A lot of the people here had a home at some point in their life,
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