Shamima Begum Justin Trudeau To Monitor Canadian Spy Claim Shamima Begum

Shamima Begum was smuggled into the hands of Islamic State at the age of 15 and the people smuggler’s work for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was covered up by Britain’s police and security services, according to a book. out this week. British police launched an international manhunt for the trio at the time. Begum, along with her school friends Kadiza Sultana, then 16, and Amira Abase, then 15, were met at the bus station in Istanbul for their next trip to Syria by a man called Mohammed al-Rashed. Rashed was also a Canadian intelligence informant who told the Met police about their connection to him in March 2015, days after Begum had crossed the border to join the terror group. But neither British nor Canadian authorities have previously acknowledged the connection. Asked about the case at a news conference, Trudeau defended the need for intelligence agencies to be “flexible and creative in their approaches … in their work to keep Canada and Canadians safe in a very dangerous world.” At the same time, he added, CSIS must comply with Canadian laws and “strict rules” of conduct. “We expect those rules to be followed,” Trudeau said. “I know there are questions about some past incidents or operations and we will make sure to follow up on those. “We will continue to ensure that appropriate oversight is in place and, as necessary, consider further steps.” The claim is made in Richard Kerbaj’s The Secret History of the Five Eyes, which is published on Thursday. Five Eyes is the intelligence sharing network between Britain, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It reports that two officials from CSIS met the Met’s then head of counter-terrorism, Richard Walton, in March 2015, shortly after Begum’s disappearance, a meeting which the senior police officer felt was self-serving. They said they hoped CSIS would not become the focus of an investigation, causing some concern in Walton’s mind. “If you run agents, you accept what they do,” Walton said in an interview about the book, though he also acknowledged that there might have been some intelligence benefit to the relationship. At the time, the Met was engaged in a frantic search for the girls. Two are now dead. Begum asked for her British citizenship to be revoked in 2019 after then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid ruled she had aligned herself with IS because she had remained in the group’s territory and posed a danger to the British public. Her family’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, maintains that Begum was trafficked out of the country. The suggestion that a Western intelligence agency may be involved, including arranging bus tickets for her, will reignite talk of stripping her of her British citizenship. The high court upheld that decision and Begum, now 23, lives in a detention camp in northern Syria, having given birth to three children, all of whom died young. There was no indication in the high court ruling that the British authorities were aware of the circumstances of her illegal entry into Syria. Begum is due to make a new case at the special immigration appeals panel in November. The UK government declined to comment on the CSIS revelations, citing its policy on “operational intelligence or security matters”. With Agence France-Presse

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Shamima Begum was smuggled into the hands of Islamic State at the age of 15 and the people smuggler’s work for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was covered up by Britain’s police and security services, according to a book. out this week. British police launched an international manhunt for the trio at the time. Begum, along with her school friends Kadiza Sultana, then 16, and Amira Abase, then 15, were met at the bus station in Istanbul for their next trip to Syria by a man called Mohammed al-Rashed. Rashed was also a Canadian intelligence informant who told the Met police about their connection to him in March 2015, days after Begum had crossed the border to join the terror group. But neither British nor Canadian authorities have previously acknowledged the connection. Asked about the case at a news conference, Trudeau defended the need for intelligence agencies to be “flexible and creative in their approaches … in their work to keep Canada and Canadians safe in a very dangerous world.” At the same time, he added, CSIS must comply with Canadian laws and “strict rules” of conduct. “We expect those rules to be followed,” Trudeau said. “I know there are questions about some past incidents or operations and we will make sure to follow up on those. “We will continue to ensure that appropriate oversight is in place and, as necessary, consider further steps.” The claim is made in Richard Kerbaj’s The Secret History of the Five Eyes, which is published on Thursday. Five Eyes is the intelligence sharing network between Britain, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It reports that two officials from CSIS met the Met’s then head of counter-terrorism, Richard Walton, in March 2015, shortly after Begum’s disappearance, a meeting which the senior police officer felt was self-serving. They said they hoped CSIS would not become the focus of an investigation, causing some concern in Walton’s mind. “If you run agents, you accept what they do,” Walton said in an interview about the book, though he also acknowledged that there might have been some intelligence benefit to the relationship. At the time, the Met was engaged in a frantic search for the girls. Two are now dead. Begum asked for her British citizenship to be revoked in 2019 after then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid ruled she had aligned herself with IS because she had remained in the group’s territory and posed a danger to the British public. Her family’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, maintains that Begum was trafficked out of the country. The suggestion that a Western intelligence agency may be involved, including arranging bus tickets for her, will reignite talk of stripping her of her British citizenship. The high court upheld that decision and Begum, now 23, lives in a detention camp in northern Syria, having given birth to three children, all of whom died young. There was no indication in the high court ruling that the British authorities were aware of the circumstances of her illegal entry into Syria. Begum is due to make a new case at the special immigration appeals panel in November. The UK government declined to comment on the CSIS revelations, citing its policy on “operational intelligence or security matters”. With Agence France-Presse