I'm Not A Monster: Episode 1

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

I'm Not A Monster is a new multi-part podcast series from FRONTLINE, BBC Sounds, and BBC Panorama. For the past four years, journalist Josh Baker has been trying to uncover the truth about an American family’s journey from Indiana to the Islamic State group’s caliphate and back. In episode 1, a suicide bombing in Iraq and a home video from inside the ISIS caliphate begin the search for a family trapped in Syria. A desperate plea arrives from an American woman who says she wants to escape the Islamic State group with her young children.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi frontline listeners, I'm Rainy Aronson, Executive Producer of Frontline, and I'm excited to share something different and new with you.
0:08.0	Our first ever multi-part investigative podcast series. It's called I'm Not A Monster.
0:14.0	We made the show with our partners at BBC Sounds in BBC Panorama.
0:18.0	I'm Not A Monster is a ten-part series that tells the story of an American family's journey from Indiana to the heart of the self-declared ISIS Caliphate and back.
0:29.0	Over the next week, we're dropping the first few episodes of the story here.
0:33.0	To listen to the rest of the series, subscribe to I'm Not A Monster wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.0	I hope you enjoy episode one of I'm Not A Monster.
0:55.0	I'm not a monster.
1:11.0	I'm not a monster.
1:27.0	I'm so sorry.
1:37.0	I guess I wanted to ask you, you've spent years saying that you are innocent of everything.
1:47.0	Just take an Aplead deal and by doing this you've admitted that you are your guilty of terrorism, right?
1:55.0	Well, um...
1:57.0	Sam Sali is talking to me from jail in Indiana.
2:01.0	She's just struck a deal to avoid going on trial, pleading guilty to financing terrorism.
2:08.0	And she's admitted helping our husband and brother-in-law join ISIS.
2:14.0	Have you read the plea agreement? Yeah, but please continue.
2:18.0	Okay, it states that I'm guilty of supporting my husband.
2:24.0	It states specifically that my husband and his brother were ISIS members or one of two ISIS members.
2:34.0	But it separated me enough from that, I believe, that I can deal with that.
2:40.0	Do you understand?
2:42.0	Yeah, but it also says that basically you sort of willingly helped me.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -1529 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FRONTLINE, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FRONTLINE and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.