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The Tip Off

Ep.23 Many miles from home

The Tip Off

The Tip Off

News, News & Politics

4.7650 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Three continents, 80 interviews and an investigation that took more than a decade. This is the story of how Cam Simpson uncovered one of the great David vs. Goliath stories of our time.


In this episode, Cam wrestles with duplicitous sources, flies across the world twice and arranges an undercover embed, all to find out how 12 men came to die far from home, in the Iraqi desert.


Read all about it:

https://camsimpson.com/


https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062449719/the-girl-from-kathmandu/


Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan

Music:  Dice Muse, the Losers, Blue Dot Sessions. Recordings from Turku and Samuel Corwin.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Cam Simpson is sat opposite a nervous-looking man in a stifling hot room in Jordan.

0:10.0

And he constantly asked my translator, you know, who is this guy? Who is this guy really? Why is he asking all these questions?

0:19.0

Cam has traveled nearly 6,000 miles across the globe to find this man.

0:22.6

A man he thinks can tell him about the fate of another.

0:25.6

A man who can explain how 12 men would wind up dead on the wrong side of the world.

0:31.6

A man who'd help him piece it all back to one of the most powerful companies on the planet.

0:38.3

I'm Maeve McLanagan. This is the tip-off.

0:43.3

I'm Cam Simpson. I'm an investigative journalist.

0:46.3

Right now, I'm an international investigations editor and writer for Bloomberg Business

0:51.3

Week magazine. And I'm the author of a book called The Girl from

0:56.4

Camandu. Cam works on all kinds of stories. He's covered topics from the exploitation of workers

1:02.9

making iPhones to hedge funds fueling repressive regimes. Like all good journalists, Cam is looking

1:10.3

in the spaces between the lines of the stories he reads.

1:13.8

He's listening out for what isn't being said in the news broadcasts.

1:18.6

And so it was one day.

1:20.3

He would hear a quick news report that would set him on a journey that would take the next decade.

1:26.2

The 12 Nepali men were kidnapped 10 days ago by an extremist Islamic group Anzal Sunnah.

1:31.3

There on the screen, the newscaster was talking in impassive tones about 12 men that had been kidnapped.

1:38.3

Today all 12 were brutally murdered, shot in the back of head or beheaded. These images...

1:44.5

These 12 men from Nepal had been kidnapped in Iraq

1:49.4

and turned into political theater against the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

1:55.9

And it was a terrorist group called Ansar al-Suna.

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