Serial S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.5 • 82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	These first two episodes of Serial Season 4 are free.
0:06.6	But to hear the whole series, you'll need to subscribe to the New York Times,
0:09.9	where you'll get access to all the serial productions and New York Times shows.
0:14.1	And it's super easy.
0:15.6	You can sign up through Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
0:18.7	And if you're already a time subscriber, just link your account and you're done.
0:27.0	Previously on cereal. I mean, I love Gitmo. Like it's, it's la la land.
0:34.5	I tried to explain everything I can and try to persuade them that we're not the people they're looking for.
0:42.4	You're not going to get anything from us and we're going to just hire you down.
0:45.1	Safe, legal, transparent, humane and transparent, transparent, care and custody detainees.
0:50.9	This guy right here, yeah, he's probably a horrible person that is either a killer
0:55.7	or caused people to be killed.
0:56.7	This guy over here doesn't know shit.
0:58.7	From serial productions in the New York Times, I'm Dana Chivis.
1:11.3	This is season four of serial, Guantanamo.
1:14.2	One prison camp told week by week.
1:25.4	Danny was living in Yemen in 2001.
1:28.8	He was in his 20s, married, with two young daughters and another on the way,
1:32.9	when he decided to go to Pakistan to get rich.
1:36.4	I want to be like rich.
1:38.6	Like everyone, everyone want to be rich.
1:40.7	Do you want to be rich?
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