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BBC Investigation: Spy for Canada smuggled schoolgirl to Syria (ISIS Bride)
BBC ^ | Aug 31 | By Josh Baker

Posted on 08/31/2022 5:32:42 AM PDT by RandFan

Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group, was smuggled into Syria by an intelligence agent for Canada.

Files seen by the BBC show he claimed to have shared Ms Begum's passport details with Canada, and smuggled other Britons to fight for IS.

Ms Begum's lawyers are challenging the removal of her citizenship, arguing she was a trafficking victim.

Canada and the UK declined to comment on security issues.

Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - travelled to Syria to join the IS group in 2015.

At the main Istanbul bus station, the girls met Mohammed Al Rasheed, who would facilitate their journey to IS-controlled Syria.

A senior intelligence officer, at an agency which is part of the global coalition against IS, has confirmed to the BBC that Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to IS.

The BBC has obtained a dossier on Rasheed that contains information gathered by law enforcement and intelligence, as well as material recovered from his hard drives, which provide extraordinary detail about how he operated.

He told authorities that he had gathered information on the people he helped into Syria because he was passing it to the Canadian embassy in Jordan.

Rasheed, who was arrested in Turkey within days of smuggling Ms Begum to IS, told authorities he had shared a photo of the passport the British schoolgirl was using.

The Metropolitan Police were searching for her, although by the time Canada received her passport details, Ms Begum was already in Syria.

The dossier shows that Ms Begum was moved to Syria through a substantial IS people-smuggling network that was controlled from the group's de-facto capital in Raqqa.

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This is pretty startling and will now be used (no doubt) to stop her being stripped of her citizenship
1 posted on 08/31/2022 5:32:42 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

We have a drone for that.


2 posted on 08/31/2022 5:37:28 AM PDT by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: RandFan

Come to Syria! Serve as nothing more than a c** dumpster for some filthy 7th century goat humper!

such a deal!


3 posted on 08/31/2022 5:40:57 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: RandFan
You Sucker .
This Foreign blood sucker was never a Brit citizen.
Another Foreign Terrorist lovin monster
who tortured and killed Christen women held captive.

You fell for BS from her western hating lawyers .

Her real country does not want her too .

She is evil .
No victim
More lies peddled by the Trump hating Daily Smear.

4 posted on 08/31/2022 6:02:16 AM PDT by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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