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Serial S04 - Ep. 8: Two Ledgers

Serial

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Majid Khan spent years locked away in CIA black sites. What would he tell the world when he finally got the chance to speak?

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0:00.0

Previously, on serial.

0:05.0

What was the worst question a reporter could ask you?

0:09.0

Um, Camp 7.

0:12.0

Never had anything set to me about camp seven.

0:14.6

I know nothing about it.

0:16.8

I mean, you hear rumors, but.

0:18.3

I mean, I believe you genuinely thought like, this is it.

0:22.1

I'm dying tonight, like like this I'm going to die

0:24.1

whatever I learn from the detainees I pass it all to the leadership everything

0:29.7

every word world by word it's a lawless place and they can do whatever they want down there and they did it. From Serial Productions in the New York Times, this is season 4 of Serial,

0:49.0

Guantanamo, one prison camp told week by week.

0:52.0

I'm Dana Chivas. Madh Khan was 16 when his family moved to Baltimore from Pakistan.

1:16.0

He went to Owings Mills High School, smoked weed, worked at his dad's gas station,

1:21.0

and thought about becoming a DJ under the stage name Bob Dacey.

1:25.6

He listened to Eminem and watched Law and Order and paid attention in Miss Sanford's social studies

1:29.8

class where he learned about checks and balances and due process.

1:34.4

So when Madjir Han found himself locked away in a cold dark cell at a black site in 2003,

1:40.5

he told the CIA he wanted to see a lawyer.

1:43.0

CIA is just shocked.

1:45.0

It's like, what do you think of who you are and where you are?

1:48.0

You're talking about rights?

1:51.0

The son, the gloves came off long time ago. That's what they tell me. I was like, now I still believe in due process. I still believe in due process. I still believe in due process. Right or wrong, whatever I did. I believe in due process.

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