A spy working for Canadian intelligence had smuggled Shamima Begum and two of her different pals into Syria from the UK, a brand new guide has claimed in an explosive revelation.
Ms Begum was 15 in 2015 when she and two different schoolgirls from London – 16-year-old Kadiza Sultana and 15-year-old Amira Abase – went to Syria to affix Isis.
Ms Begum has claimed she was trafficked into Syria.
Investigators have been informed that the youngsters have been trafficked into Syria by double agent who was working for Isis and Canadian intelligence, in line with excerpts from the upcoming guide, The Secret History of the Five Eyes, printed by a number of media shops.
The guide is authored by Richard Kerbaj, a former safety correspondent for The Sunday Times. Its title refers back to the Five Eyes western alliance of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The guide claims Canada saved silent whilst Scotland Yard ran a frenetic worldwide search and had requested the UK to cowl up its function. Canada had allegedly employed a human trafficker to realize perception into the recruitment of its personal residents by the terrorist group.
The guide by Mr Kerbaj is predicated on interviews with world leaders and greater than 100 intelligence officers.
The BBC additionally reported {that a} senior intelligence officer had confirmed that double agent Mohammed Al Rasheed was offering info to Canadian intelligence whereas smuggling folks to Isis.
He claimed the knowledge he had gathered on the individuals who wished to go to Syria was handed alongside to the Canadian embassy in Jordon.
The guide additionally stated the UK conspired with Canada to cowl up its function within the disappearance of the women.
Canada employed Mr Rasheed as an agent when he was making use of for asylum on the Canadian embassy, in line with the guide.
The guide quotes an unidentified supply as saying: “The CSIS [Canadian Security Intelligence Service] officers knew that Scotland Yard had a live investigation into the three schoolgirls and also knew that sooner or later the finger would point at them.”
“CSIS remained silent about the explosive allegations, taking refuge in the one thing that protects all intelligence agencies, including those within the Five Eyes, against potential embarrassment: secrecy,” the guide claims.
“CSIS largely succeeded in covering up the role it had played in the recruitment and running of Rasheed, and the agency’s deputy director was deployed to Ankara to beg forgiveness for failing to inform the Turkish authorities that they had been running a counterintelligence operation in their territory,” the guide additional states.
Meanwhile, Tasnime Akunjee, the Begum household lawyer, has referred to as for an inquiry.
He stated: “Britain has lauded its efforts to stop Isis and the grooming of our children by spending millions of pounds on the Prevent programme and online monitoring. However, at the very same time we have been co-operating with a western ally, trading sensitive intelligence with them whilst they have effectively been nabbing British children and trafficking them across the Syrian border for delivery to Isis all in the name of intelligence-gathering.
“The calculation here is that the lives of British children, and the risk of their death, is part of the algorithm of acceptable risk our western allies have taken.”
He stated the revelations within the guide have been of “crucial importance”, provided that Ms Begum has argued she was trafficked into Syria.
Source: www.impartial.co.uk