Shamima Begum was ‘smuggled into Syria to join ISIS by Canadian spy’, new book claims | UK News

A Canadian spy brought British schoolgirl Shamima Begum and two friends into Syria to join ISIS and his role was covered up by police and the British Government, a new book has claimed.

Miss Begum, who became a jihadist bride in Syria, was later deemed a “threat to national security” and strip her of her UK citizenship by the internal secretary, a move backed by the Supreme Court.

Since the disbanding of the Isis caliphate, Ms Begum has lived in a detention center in Syria and is now planning to use the allegation of a formal cover-up in an upcoming appeal against the decision to strip her of her British citizenship. .

She would argue that as a child victim of traffickers, she should be protected by the government, not persecuted.

Ms Begum left her east London home and traveled to Turkey with two friends – Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase – on 17 February 2015.

According to the Secret History of the Five Eyes, a book about Britain and its international intelligence allies, the girls were met in Istanbul and arrested by Mohammed Al Rasheed, an alleged double agent working for Isis and Canada, one of its close partners. UK, given to ISIS terrorists in Syria.

The book claims Al Rasheed was arrested in Turkey a few days later and that his alleged role in trafficking the three girls surfaced, though it was not immediately made public.

If so, that would mean Scotland Yard publicly appealed information about the girls’ whereabouts while an agent working for a key ally knew what happened to them.

Two officials from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service visited Scotland Yard in early March and admitted their representatives had helped Ms Begum and her friends, although they were not aware until they did. reached IS territory, the book claims.

Scotland Yard said: “We do not comment on matters relating to intelligence.”

A UK government spokesman said: “It is our longstanding policy that we do not comment on operational intelligence or security matters.”

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has been contacted for comment.

Last summer, in an interview, Mrs. Begum said that she wanted to be brought back to the UK to face charges and added in a direct appeal to the prime minister that she could be an “asset” in the fight against terrorism.

She claims she was “well prepared” to flee to Syria as a “dumb” and impressionable child.

Tasnime Akunjee, Begum’s family lawyer, said: “In November, Shamima Begum will have a hearing at SIAC. [Special Immigration Appeals Commission] The court, where one of the main arguments will be is that when former Interior Minister Sajid Javid stripped Shamima Begum of her citizenship, leaving her in Syria, he did not consider her a victim of human trafficking.

“The UK has international obligations for how we view a trafficked person and what charges we put on them for their actions.

“The most shocking of these is the integral part of the transportation network that is the act of a Canadian intelligence asset. Someone who is supposed to be an ally protecting our people, not a trafficker. selling British children into war zones Intelligence gathering seems to have taken precedence over children’s lives.

“The UK has praised its efforts to stop Isis and to look after our children by spending millions of pounds on Prevention and Online Surveillance.

“At the same time, however, we were partnering with a Western ally, exchanging sensitive intelligence with them while they were effectively raising British children and trafficking them across the border. Syria to hand over to Isis, all in the name of intelligence gathering. .

“The calculation here is that British children’s lives, and their risk of death, are part of an acceptable risk algorithm that our Western allies have implemented.”