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Recruiters for the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham are attempting to lure Canadian girls — some as young as 13 — to travel abroad to marry them, using tactics straight out of the playbooks of sex traffickers and pedophiles, says a new documentary to be broadcast this weekend.

In Wives of ISIS, which airs on the Global News investigative series 16×9 Saturday, a producer poses as a young girl online, attracting the attention of an alleged ISIS recruiter.

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The team created a fake social media profile, that of a 15-year-old conservative Muslim girl and ISIS supporter. It wasn’t long before she attracted the attention of a man believed to be a recruiter for the group.

“You say you’re gonna have a weekend sleepover,” he says, explaining how she can get away. The key is not to make her parents suspicious.

In the video, the man lays out the route: Edmonton to Calgary, Calgary to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Istanbul. “It sounds complicated but it’s so simple,” he tells her.