The call came in the early hours, the voice muffled, furtive and shaking with fear. ‘If they see me talking to someone they will kill me for sure, maybe kill all of us.’ This was Nisreen, a 17-year-old seized by the vicious Islamic State forces who have swept through Iraq and Syria spreading fear and panic.
The husband of another teenage woman, heavily pregnant, held captive by the IS told me how she would rather the US bombed her prison — with her inside — than be handed out like a piece of property to an extremist fighter. She said: ‘Let those jets come to bomb us and save us from this situation by killing all of us.’ She added death would be a better fate than to ‘be forced off with a strange man.’
The victims tell reporters they desperately need help from the U.S. and other Western countries–which, as we’ve learned from Obama, probably won’t happen.