Series 2: 2. The Point of No Return

I'm Not a Monster

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Following Shamima Begum’s route reveals a dangerous Islamic State group smuggling network, but that’s not all. A local taxi firm isn’t what it seems and a gangster threatens to make Josh “disappear.” It all ends in an underground carpark with a stack of secret documents and a warning.

Reporter: Josh Baker Written by: Josh Baker and Joe Kent Producers: Josh Baker, Sara Obeidat and Joe Kent Field producers: Hussam Hammoud and Zeynep Bilginsoy Composer: Firas Abou Fakher Theme music: Sam Slater and Gunni Tynes Mix and sound design: Tom Brignell Production coordinator: Janet Staples Series Editor: Jonathan Aspinwall Head of Long Form Audio: Emma Rippon Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins

This episode contains strong language.

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0:00.0	The two 22 FIFA World Cup is Qatar.
0:05.0	Controversial FIFA president said Flatter swept back to power.
0:09.0	The main news on 5 Live.
0:10.0	It was the wake-up called no one at FIFA had expected.
0:13.4	Part deal broker.
0:14.8	This new modern age of even bigger money.
0:17.8	Part kingmaker.
0:19.3	It's for the unity of football.
0:21.0	Power play.
0:22.0	The House of Set Blatter.
0:23.7	Potis crisis.
0:24.8	Available now on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:37.0	They're doing. They redid a lot of this bus station so it's not exactly how it looked in 2015.
0:50.0	So it's changed a lot.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:52.0	This place was basically a sort of stepping stone from people moving on to ISIS.
0:59.8	I mean it's a stepping stone for everyone who wants to depart from Istanbul basically unless you're taking a plane you're taking the bus
1:08.3	This is like also a hub for drug dealers to move narcotics across Turkey through here.
1:14.0	Anything.
1:15.0	I'm in Turkey to retrace Shimima Begum's route to ISIS.
1:22.0	I'm working with local journalist Zainab. We've come to
1:26.0	Istanbul's main bus station just like Shimobagum and her friends did. The girls
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