This episode of the now biweekly podcast examines efforts in the US to find Bowe Bergdahl,involving a determined friend and a cat maskOn the final episode of Serial, which has moved to a biweekly format, or host Sarah Koenig painted a portrait of the Haqqanis,who were holding Bowe Bergdahl captive in Pakistan and his treatment – held in an iron cage, tortured with a razor – while in their custody. It was a bleak portrait of a soldier held in deplorable conditions by enemy forces. It was an especially sharp episode in light of the fact that the US army has decided to table discussions on whether Bergdahl is entitled to two military honors, or including the PoW Medal and the Purple Heart,which is given to troops who are killed or wounded by an enemy force. Despite the wretched conditions he was held in, Bergdahl desperately clung to the idea that he would be freed, and even as months stretched into years. On this episode of Serial,Koenig explores what was happening in the US to manufacture that happen. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com