Orla Guerin
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
It's extremely rare to get access inside these walls. There's iron gate after iron gate. All along this corridor, there are numbered cells. There are guards here, all of them with their faces covered, one standing outside each of the cells. Hello. We've been allowed to get a look inside one of the cells, but we've been told we can't speak to the men. The cell is quite full.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
There are men sitting on the ground, lining both sides, sitting on blankets and thin mattresses. This is the biggest detention centre for IS prisoners. Most of the men being held here were with IS until the group made its last stand. Kurdish security sources tell us they were deeply committed to the IS ideology. What happens to these prisoners is one of the big questions facing this country.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Hello, I'm Orla from BBC TV. We were taken to meet a detainee who didn't want to be named. He's 28 and hoping one day to get back to Australia. He said he was speaking freely, but on the key questions, he had little to say. Do you have blood on your hands? Were you involved in killing anybody with IS? Yes.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Did you support what they were doing, what IS was doing?
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
This was IS in its heyday in the city of Raqqa in 2014. It brutalised one third of Syria and Iraq before it was driven out five years later. A key role in that defeat was played by the SDF, mostly Kurdish forces backed by the US. General Masloom Abdi, commander of the SDF, tells us IS is now gearing up again.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
And the hope has grown in places like Roj camp, It's a bleak and windswept expanse of tents, home to almost 3,000 women and children, never tried or convicted. They are the families of IS fighters and supporters. I'm with the manager of the camp. For security reasons, she doesn't want to be named. Can I ask you, what has the mood in the camp been like since the fall of the Assad regime?
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
There are growing fears that IS will attempt to free its people from camps and prisons here in the northeast. That's just one of the threats facing the new Syria.