madina is not alone in her desperation.n who lived under is have simply disappeared. the lists of missing jihadi families go on and on. i have been trying to trace many of these families for months. now, i have come to iraq on the trail of some faint voices that have finally emerged from the rubble of mosul. those messages were sent secretly by a woman who was taken by her husband tojoin is. she says the group of 210 are all women and children. they have been held for six months. they say they are being beaten and they fear they will be sold into prostitution. and with them, in the same dungeon, is nodar‘s wife, ayesha, and their children. a secret message from her explains how the women were captured. and also from ayesha, the first clue about where they were being held. abu jaafar al—shabaki is a well—known figure around mosul. he commands a division of hashd al—shaabi militia, a mainly shia fighting force that lost many men in the fight to defeat is. his ethnic group, the shabak, was particularly targeted by thejihadis.