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Serial S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder

Serial

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4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

How much of that is true?

0:04.0

None of it is true.

0:08.0

Previously, on serial.

0:11.0

We are humanitarian here.

0:13.8

That was my belief.

0:14.8

That is how we talked about it.

0:16.7

That is what we believed.

0:18.2

Everybody's in good shape.

0:19.2

Everybody's looking good.

0:20.4

I mean, just everyone was getting drunk and getting laid. I tried to explain everything I can and

0:26.5

try to sway them that we're not the people they're looking for. This whole thing man it's like

0:37.0

I still have resentment about this guy I still think that he's complicit some way and we'll never know how. How. New York Times, this is Serial Season 4, Guantanamo.

0:53.5

One prison camp told week by week.

0:55.6

I'm Sarah Kaneg. After September 11th, a call cascaded down through the ranks of the military.

1:13.0

If you speak another language besides English, raise your hand.

1:17.0

Pashto, Urdu, Arabic speakers, we need you.

1:20.0

So at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, a slight young supply clerk named Ahmed

1:25.8

Al Hallaby raised his hand.

1:28.1

I felt important, by the way.

1:29.9

Yeah, I'm like, wow, I'm like, everybody wants my skills, like, yeah, I'm here.

1:36.4

So I went and I, they tested me and of course I passed.

1:40.3

Of course he passed, he's originally from Syria.

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