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Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.
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From Serial Productions and The New York Times, Serial Season 4 is a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive Thursday, March 28.
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S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul
Maybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.
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S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project
In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.
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S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder
An Arabic-speaking airman is sent to Guantánamo to translate, and soon finds himself at the center of a major scandal. Part 1: Suspicion swallows evidence.
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S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners
The case against a young airman gets even weirder when the government pulls in two fresh investigators. Part 2: A bride, an FBI agent, and a polygraph machine.
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S04 - Ep. 5: The Big Chicken, Part 1
A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?
Customer Reviews
Great work, Serial
Your coverage of Guantanamo has been so great!
We all heard crazy things that happened there and to hear from those incarcerated illegally makes me so angry. These poor humans.
Thank you, Serial! You always do an amazing job!
Just too jaded
I’m a democrat, and this podcast seems well researched and well produced, but it’s just too “liberal” (for lack of a better word) for me. The arguments made on the 4 episodes I listened to were biased. I don’t think the narrator was completely one sided but some of the detail I heard from her perspective just didn’t seem to make sense to me, gave a little too much leaneancy to the people being prosecuted. She did raise some valid points though. We all have opinions and sometimes it’s easy to be persuaded from a persons perspective of an event/investigation or whatever but the podcasts I listened to just seemed a little biased. That being said, I do admire the amount of work that went into these stories and I’d suggest listen and make your own decision. Overall I thought the episodes were well done, I just feel like they were a little too one-sided in respect to some of the defendants. Again, just my opinion and I think this podcast is worth looking into.
Adnon’s Story & Beau Bergdahl story (Seasons 1 & 2)
Admin’s story was ok but not compelling. The season ended abruptly without “the rest of the story”.
Season 2 about Beau Bergdahl was excellent, which is why I’m giving the podcast 5 Stars. The history of Bergdahl was informative, balanced, and provided much information on a story that I always found confusing.
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