us the roundabout was right outside leonora's home. by s. used such violent images as propaganda on the internet in order to recruit new people and intimidate opponents. in the weeks after leonora disappeared the police were informed and visited mike's home where they seized his daughter's computer. but there was little they could do. yet mike is heading to berlin to a counseling center called high out arabic for life it was set up to help families whose children have signed up to islamist groups. there he met dozens of families in a similarly desperate situation the center's director cloudier dunja advised parents to talk to their children about everyday things in the hope that they'll get homesick. a fetus is any the crucial thing is that you realize you're not alone because you're not the only idiot in

germany whose daughter's runaway leonora appeared unaware of exactly what kind of place she was now living in me and i asked in rocca laws and punishment what draconian. listening to western music was punished with whipping me leonora and her fellow wives managed to have their own little parties in secret. leonora soon began to lose faith in i.a.s. she found her husband disgusting i asked brutal and was unhappy to be one of 3 wives at the time or not now after around 2 months she seemed to realize for the 1st time that this wasn't every things you'd hoped for. and got out of the she admitted as much i said she wanted to come home. and wanted us to help her. in your work and then it helps if you know people who know other people and.

the people mike was referring to was our team we knew the other people smugglers some of whom had close ties to i.a.s. but 1st we want unsure whether journalists should get involved in such a way but after lengthy discussions we decided we would but under the condition that mike alone would take all decisions our team would accompany him merely as observers a meeting was arranged in turkey when mike arrived we were already there . smuggling people out of i asked territory was extremely dangerous especially when a woman was involved. mike met the smuggler in a hotel in southern turkey we kept our distance while listening in mike to the negotiating. the stuff and. i met with his he was a smartly dressed guy. he said he had links to the nusra front. so basically.

the highest. mike pods or mike from the hamlet of bach was having a cup of tea with 2 guys from al-qaeda. smoking around $100.00 cigarettes. when this incredibly tense or slender talking through interpreters. the smugglers set out a complex secret operation involving 3 cars and forged documents. mike was tempted to give them the go ahead straight away i want my kid back. it was kind of that means that afterwards i face prosecution for giving money to a terrorist organization i'd be happy to go to jail as long as my child is back home but can deal with that go ahead somewhere in syria a group of men set out for rucka they had already smuggled people out of what was now the capital of i asked. that plan to get leonora was potentially

a matter of life or death. because rocca the heart of i asked was teeming with militias patrolling the city seemingly at every street corner. shops even often i asked her concretely whether she was up to it shout as just said in her typically casual way sure no problem. leonora sent her father a current location and photos of the surrounding area if caught doing best buy ins she could be sentenced to death. a lot of that was the plan. to fake up alone or in a car where she would travel with a cover family as their daughter was that. there were repeated problems coordinating a pick up with each failing of

a danger rose. dad where are they i'm waiting and nobody is here pleased to have to leave it to pull. around a dozen such attempts failed to work out. the of a cog or as there was an hour or an hour and a half each day that were just crushing your nerves having to get the questions rightly repeating answers correctly it was nerve wracking you're so wound up sorry to put into words. but they decided not to give up. boom. boom. boom boom boom boom boom boom boom good. all of us that was the last thing we heard or read from her directly. then

silence for days there wasn't a single word from leonora instead they heard from her husband me hot. button book we were really afraid for a layer of calm kind of meddling and then we didn't hear anything nothing rover a week you want to go on that one issue. event the 2nd wife of martin alias nihad got in touch.

back implied and both mike and the rest of the family needed time before they could start believing the news. slowly it sank in that leonora was dead that she had been killed in a civil war that wasn't hers. 3 weeks after the news of her death we visited mine for the 1st time with a camera again. he told us he was trying to somehow get through the days that he hadn't made it through a 90 yet without crying. thank you distort your child is doing. you know you failed after you failed to get her out of there and you shove your sword. we have got the bomb for a planned history. we were preparing her but we'll be saying farewell to

a child. more of a place we can go which is symbolically her last resting place and borders and. we took stock of the last few months going over everything again and again. the family organized a memorial service so that everyone could say goodbye then suddenly a message arrived. but was it really her my couldn't be sure so he asked questions to which only leonora would know the answers what had best childhood friends home looked like inside the names of her grandfather's ponies. the answers that were correct leonora was alive. even if she was still living under

a terrorist regime islamiyah arabic for islamic state. and he was a tall order man or woman young or old and even slightly.