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(After Bergdahl’s rescue and relocation to a hospital in Germany, he asked to be kept away from clocks, since he no longer could operate by the passing of days and weeks.) As Terrence Russell, Bergdahl’s principal debriefer, explained in a hearing in September, Bergdahl was treated worse than any prisoner of war since the jungle camps of the Vietnam War: 'His experience ranks at the same echelon of the most horrible conditions of captivity that we’ve seen in the last 60 years. Addendum 3: When Did Jay First Talk to the Police Undisclosed Explainer: An Update on the Recent Decision in Adnans Appeal. In interviews with filmmaker Mark Boal, he says he was tortured both physically, through sessions of 60-70 slow cuts on his chest, and mentally, through deprivation of any sense of routine or passing time. After that first year-and his two failed escape attempts-Bergdahl was held in a padlocked cage.

The New York Times described them as ' the Sopranos of the Afghanistan war.'īergdahl’s captivity was among the worst of all US prisoners of war. Or let’s just say a car has the length of 4 meters, then 40 meters will be like 10 cars. At the time, the group played an intermediary role between the Pakistani government and the Taliban: the Haqqani had their own sources of funding, but used the same letterhead as the Taliban, according to Koenig. Let’s just say a one floor is 3 meters high, then 38.7 meters will be like 12 floors high building, maybe like a shopping mall or an apartment. When Bergdahl was captured, in 2009, the Haqqani operated freely in North Waziristan, the region of Pakistan where he was held. staffers will be talking about an episode of Serial's hit spinoff, S-Town, another of the most popular and addictive.

#SERIAL PODCAST EPISODE 3 SUMMARY SERIAL#

This week, Sarah Koenig and the Serial team give us background on the conditions of those years of imprisonment.īergdahl was held by the Haqqanis, a chapter of the Taliban in Pakistan. The Serial Serial is a podcast about a podcast. As Bergdahl explains, that first year was about trying to escape-the next four years were about simply trying to endure.

Defense attorneys will tell you they’d rather have a fair prosecutor and an unfair judge than a fair judge and an. Prosecutors are the most powerful people in any courthouse, host Sarah Koenig says. On the last episode of Serial, listeners heard about Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s first year in captivity with the Taliban. The fifth episode of the new season of 'Serial,' aptly named 'Pleas Baby Pleas,' focuses on prosecutors and the plea deals they make.

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