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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.

Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.

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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.

Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.

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    Poor Baby Raul

    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.

    • 41 min
    The Special Project

    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.

    • 47 min
    Ahmad the Iguana Feeder

    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.

    • 1 hr
    The Honeymooners

    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.

    • 50 min
    The Big Chicken, Part 1

    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?

    • 54 min
    Part 2, Asymmetry

    Part 2, Asymmetry

    After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.

    • 56 min

Customer Reviews

4.2 out of 5
44 Ratings

44 Ratings

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Btol ,

Wow his story looks like homaidan alturki story!!

Oh my i can’t believe that!!🫤 he is remanded me of homaidan al-turki there is no a single evidence against him! And no witness even his maid disappeared poor her she cant go back to her family because the fbi hide her😅

P.ف ,

The problem

The problem with the quickly spread news about muslims being terrorists is that it doesn't happen when terrorism is practiced against us muslims by people from other religions or even no religion do you ever see that on the news? Do you every see what happened to muslims who were literally not bothering anyone, the terrorists who consider that they are doing what islam tells us are not following the rule that Allah put for us and that is that you cant ki** anyone ever unless it was for
1. Self defense
2.they kil**d someone : not by mistake/ for self-defense
By the way No.2 is there for a reason and that is so kil***g doesn't seem like something people can do without consequences and so that people are scarred of doing it due to the consequence being their life as well and this is fair enough in my opinion you made someone lose their life.
And the ayat in the Quran proof that!
They are not doing what we muslims are told to do and that is being kind, forgiving, treating our family in the best way, Islam my beautiful religion its only purpose is that we follow what Allah told us to do and that is simply put being decent humans who treat others well and have a heart that can forgive mistakes, I hope that the fact that 1 billion people aren't seen as terrorists just because the media wants that is seen even if it not this is the truth .

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