it's truly -- listen. >> there was a woman who violated the dress code, her cloak had design on it, she says, they brought her to me and i lashed her 40 times. nbc news obtained these rare images filmed recently in secret inside raqqa and smuggled out at great risk. isis fighters operate openly despite the u.s. bombing campaign. she was also an isis enforcer. the women say they grew to resent isis and its brutality. public execution, beheadings. a body would stay hung on the street so you would have to pass it, she said. it was disgusting. they escaped to the relative safety of turkey. i know many women too scared to leave, she says, worried isis will find them in turkey and kill them. >> all right. gail, it's horrifying. >> it is. and you know, there are both those who have been lured there, you know, they were talking