S27 Trailer: Bloodlines

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CBC

True Crime

4.5 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Two-year-old Salmaan disappears in the chaos of the final days of the war against ISIS. After the war against the Islamic State was won, what became of the children of its fighters? There are thousands of kids like Salmaan, with roots in Canada, the U.K., the U.S. and beyond — many of whom are still trapped without a way back home. Is it a race against time to rescue them?

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:04.0	Say I love
0:08.0	Gaddu.
0:10.0	And this video, it's a message from a little boy in the Syrian desert to his grandfather in
0:18.4	East London.
0:19.4	A someone, come on and?
0:21.4	I love. Just outside the frame rages a war to end one of the world's most brutal
0:30.0	regimes to defeat the terror group known as IS, the Islamic State Group.
0:38.0	Amid the sniper fire, the airstrikes, the chaos, that little boy,
0:43.3	Salmane disappears.
0:45.3	His grandfather is desperate to find him,
0:50.9	helpless on the other side of the world.
0:54.8	I just want to be a normal grandparent to him,
0:58.6	to love him, cater for him.
1:07.0	It's been five years and Selman is still missing. Selman was among the thousands of children of the so-called caliphate. Some born there, others brought
1:16.0	there by their parents from across the world. We begin tonight with one Canadian
1:21.2	family's anguish over the loss of their sister and daughter to ISIS.
1:26.0	She's one of hundreds of us.
1:28.0	These children now languish in prison camps in the desert, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards,
1:36.0	punished for their parents actions.
1:39.0	I'm going to be stuck here forever.
1:41.0	It's a nightmare.
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