Serial S04 - Ep. 9: This Is the Weirdness

Serial

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The criminal case against the men accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks is the one aspect of Guantánamo that would seem to make sense – until you start watching it.

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0:00.0	Previously, on cereal.
0:05.0	It was a ticket out of a jailed card, basically.
0:08.0	You can't put a person 50 years in prison and plus torture, right?
0:13.7	So we are tortured by someone who doesn't believe in total.
0:19.7	How can this guy who believes in human rights doing this to me?
0:23.5	Well, it's exhausting because you're like pretending.
0:26.5	Everything is pretend.
0:28.0	That's what I was.
0:28.6	We're in a play and we're playing our part.
0:30.3	Everybody seems to think that the intelligence mission to Guantanamo
0:34.6	was to build cases against these detainees for their continued detention.
0:39.4	And I'm here to tell you that wasn't the friggin mission.
0:44.0	From Serial Productions on the New York Times, this is Serial Season 4, Guantanamo.
0:52.0	One prison camp told week by week.
0:54.2	I'm Sarah Kaneg, and this is our final episode. Every couple of weeks at the bland hour of 5 p.m. on a Tuesday, a group of people
1:19.1	you've never heard of clicks into a Zoom meeting. They're all family members of people who died on September 11th.
1:25.6	Hi.
1:26.6	Hi everyone.
1:28.3	Hi everybody.
1:29.7	There's Colleen, a nurse practitioner in the Bronx,
1:32.4	and Terry, a nurse practitioner in the Bronx,
1:32.5	and Terry, a retired documentary filmmaker in Boston.
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