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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.

From Serial: Season 4 - Guantánamo

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This weekend, we've got the first episode of Cereal's new season, season 4.

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Over here at Serial, we love criminal justice stories.

Guantanamo is the most astonishing one we've ever seen.

Guantanamo is a prison and a court that we made from scratch right after September 11th.

We were at war in Afghanistan fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and pretty soon we'd captured thousands of men.

Our makeshift holding cells in Afghanistan couldn't handle them all.

We needed a safe place to keep them, away from the chaos chaos so we could sort them out. And the place we

chose was Guantanamo Bay, 8,000 miles away from Afghanistan in Cuba. We already

had a sleepy naval base there. We've had it since

1903. There's plenty of room and this part was crucial. The Bush

administration figured because the base was in Cuba on foreign soil,

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Sabrina.
0:03.0	As you know, sometimes on the weekends, we hear at the Daily bring you episodes of other
0:07.4	shows made by our colleagues at New York Times Audio.
0:11.3	This weekend, we've got the first episode of Cereal's new season, season 4.
0:16.0	This time the cereal team's telling a story that maybe hasn't been on your mind recently
0:21.0	but as they'll show it's one of the most important, fascinating,
0:25.8	and complicated criminal justice stories in our country.
0:29.4	And that's Guantanamo Bay.
0:32.0	So here they are with that first new episode.
0:34.8	And for all the rest, search serial wherever you listen to podcasts or in our New York Times
0:40.6	audio app.
0:42.4	Happy listening.
0:45.0	Over here at Serial, we love criminal justice stories.
0:49.0	Guantanamo is the most astonishing one we've ever seen.
0:53.0	Guantanamo is a prison and a court that we made from scratch right after September 11th.
0:59.0	We were at war in Afghanistan fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and pretty soon we'd captured thousands of men.
1:06.0	Our makeshift holding cells in Afghanistan couldn't handle them all.
1:09.5	We needed a safe place to keep them, away from the chaos chaos so we could sort them out. And the place we
1:15.2	chose was Guantanamo Bay, 8,000 miles away from Afghanistan in Cuba. We already
1:22.3	had a sleepy naval base there. We've had it since
1:24.6	1903. There's plenty of room and this part was crucial. The Bush
1:28.8	administration figured because the base was in Cuba on foreign soil,
	...

From Serial: Season 4 - Guantánamo

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