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Almost exactly twenty years ago,\\xa0detainee 244\\xa0got transferred to Guantanamo Bay.\\xa0Captured by American forces at the battle\\xa0Tora Bora five months previous, Abdul Latif Nasser was shaved, hooded, shackled, diapered, and flown halfway across the world.

The Radiolab special series,\\xa0The Other Latif, kicked off when one of our hosts, Latif Nasser, made a bizarre and shocking discovery. He shares his name with detainee 244. A man the U.S. government paints a terrifying picture of as Al-Qaeda\\u2019s top explosives expert, and one of the most important advisors to Osama bin Laden. Nasser\\u2019s lawyer claims, on the other hand, that he was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and that he was never even in Al-Qaeda. This clash\\xa0launched\\xa0our Latif into a years-long investigation, picking apart evidence, attempting to separate fact from fiction, and trying to uncover what the man with whom he shares a name actually did or didn\\u2019t do. Along the way, Radiolab\\u2019s Latif reflects on American values and his own religious past, and wonders how a fellow nerdy, suburban Muslim kid, may have gone down such a strikingly different path.

Episode 5: Cuba-ish\\xa0

To mark the solemn occasion of the other Latif\'s transfer to, "the legal equivalent of outer space," we\\xa0thought we\'d\\xa0replay Cuba-ish, the fifth episode of our special series which first aired back in 2020. In this episode, our Latif heads to Guantanamo Bay to try to speak to his namesake. Before he gets there, he\\xa0dives deep, seeking the answer to what seems like a simple question: why Cuba? Why in the world did the United States pick this sleepy military base in the Caribbean to house \\u201cthe worst of the worst\\u201d?\\xa0\\xa0Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0

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