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John Nuttall and Amanda Korody are scraping by on welfare and methadone in a basement suite with John’s grandma, when they find themselves embroiled in a terrorist plot. A mysterious figure named Abe comes into their lives and introduces the couple to a shadowy world of global extremism. With Abe as their mentor and benefactor, John and Amanda hatch a plan to bomb a national holiday celebration using homemade pressure cooker devices. They have no idea that federal police are tracking their every move.
Through nearly a hundred hours of surveillance footage and wiretaps, Pressure Cooker puts you in the middle of a sprawling anti-terror operation at the height of the War on Terror — one the courts will eventually call a “travesty of justice."
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Through nearly a hundred hours of surveillance footage and wiretaps, Pressure Cooker puts you in the middle of a sprawling anti-terror operation at the height of the War on Terror — one the courts will eventually call a “travesty of justice."
For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.
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2John and Amanda are outsiders. They’re devoted to Dungeons & Dragons, struggling with addiction and living on welfare when they find themselves at the centre of a sprawling terrorism investigation. Host Dan Pierce follows their wild journey in this five part series, launching September 5th. New episodes on Mondays with early access for CBC True Crime Premium subscribers.
Police intercept two homegrown – and very peculiar – extremists intent on murder and mayhem at a national holiday festival. Pressure cooker bombs. Just like the Boston Marathon. But something about the official version of the story doesn’t add up.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/pressure-cooker-transcripts-listen-1.6563380
Meet the misfit suspects behind the foiled attack. Learn how they fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy, hate and terror. And how they crossed paths with a mysterious financier who pledged to fund their diabolical plot.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/pressure-cooker-transcripts-listen-1.6563380
John and Amanda’s struggles with addiction complicate their fledgling plot. Will these oddballs be able to pull off an attack? Police spending escalates as Project Souvenir gets more elaborate by the day.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/pressure-cooker-transcripts-listen-1.6563380
John and Amanda are losing their grip on reality, frustrating Abe and his shadowy accomplices. John has doubts and asks for spiritual guidance from an imam, but time is running out as zero hour approaches.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/pressure-cooker-transcripts-listen-1.6563380
John and Amanda piece together their shattered reality while facing a possible lifetime in prison. As the full picture of Project Souvenir emerges in court, they start to wonder if the deception goes even deeper.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/pressure-cooker-transcripts-listen-1.6563380
A mystery lingers about what role Canada's spy agency may have played in John and Amanda's case. The puzzling character known as Kaz could be the key to solving that mystery.
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Unbelievable, fantastic,but very enjoyable podcast ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Scary how seemingly widespread and accepted these behaviors are. It's not paranoia if it's really happening!!
Listening to John throw out random ideas off the.top of his head that sound more like movie plots than realistic plans, I'm surprised the police even took him seriously. John bumbles around, misses deadlines, forgets commitments, changes plans randomly and, when left to himself, fails to finish anything. He had no money, no contacts, no easy access to vital materials, no idea what he was doing and no realistic achievable plan. Without the constant nagging, increasing pressure, provision of money, materials, and 'brotherly' advice all John could have done is talk, talk, talk. Undoubtedly John & Amanda both made stupid choices and ridiculous decisions. However, I doubt even the most basic of John's plans would have been achievable without all the advice and practical help he got from the undercover officers. Is it collusion? How much help can be provided before it's entrapment?
How is this not entrapment? The undercover clearly kept pushing him towards carrying out an attack and each time John had doubts the undercover instead of providing authentic knowledge, they tell him what would help them achieve their goal; carry out an attack. The guy was a revert with little knowledge of Islam. John definitely had extremists view but if he was exposed to Orthodox Muslims this would not have been the outcome. I would like to know how many "terrorist" are caught without these type of operations which clearly coerce and manipulate their targets. There are extremist out there and our resources should be focused on them instead of coercing and manipulating reverts with little knowledge of their religion.