From In the Dark: Season 3, Episode 1

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today, we're bringing you a special preview of the new season of the New Yorker investigative podcast In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran. The series examines the killings of twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and asks why no one was held accountable for the crime.

In Episode 1, a man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family was killed?

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Evan Osnos. You may have seen that not long ago, the Peabody Award-winning
0:05.4	investigative podcast, In the Dark, joined the New Yorker. Now this week, after four years of
0:11.2	reporting, in the dark is releasing its third season
0:14.8	and it is the most ambitious story they've done yet.
0:17.7	It looks at a shocking crime that was committed
0:19.7	during the war in Iraq, the killings of 24 civilians by U.S. Marines.
0:25.0	Over the course of nine episodes, the podcast reconstructs what happened that day in Haditha
0:30.3	and sheds light on the failure of the U.S US military to bring the men responsible to
0:34.6	justice.
0:35.6	Whether you're a fan of true crime or not, this is an amazing story and some of the best
0:40.3	investigative reporting you'll encounter this year.
0:43.2	Now, here's the beginning of the first episode of season 3.
0:47.2	Two years ago, I went to Iraq to talk to a man about what sounded like a murder.
0:57.0	It had happened almost 17 years earlier, the killing of the man's sister, his nephew, so many others. 24 people in all.
1:09.8	It was a killing that had gone unpunished, where not a single person had ever gone to
1:14.6	prison a killing committed by US Marines. The man whose family was killed is named Kalad Salmae Receif.
1:37.0	He met me in the lobby of a hotel in the city of Erbil, Iraq.
1:41.0	Should we go up?
1:42.0	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, for me. We headed up to a room with our producer Samar of Freemark and our interpreter,
1:48.0	a woman named Ayamuthana.
1:50.0	We all sat down.
1:51.0	Mr. Howard, why don't you sit here?
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