![]() Sultana was reportedly killed in a Russian air raid, while Abase is missing.Ĭanadian and British intelligence have declined to comment.Īccording to the Metro, a spokesman for the UK Government said: "It is our longstanding policy that we do not comment on operational intelligence or security matters."īegum said she married Dutch convert Yago Riedijk 10 days after arriving in IS territory. She has denied any involvement in terror activities. The revelations are likely to reignite debate around Begum’s citizenship, if it is confirmed that an intelligence officer working for a Western ally helped facilitate the infamous journey.īegum initially said she did not regret her actions but has since apologised and claimed she was groomed. "He had helped a lot of people come in… We were just doing everything he was telling us to do because he knew everything, we didn’t know anything," she said. In a forthcoming podcast for the BBC, called I’m Not A Monster, Ms Begum is quoted as saying: "He (Rasheed) organised the entire trip from Turkey to Syria… I don’t think anyone would have been able to make it to Syria without the help of smugglers." The BBC also quoted a senior intelligence officer as confirming that Mr Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to IS. It is claimed that even as the Met launched an international search for the girls, Canada remained quiet – despite knowing what had happened to them.īegum was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019. It has been alleged that Begum who is 23 now (then 15), and two other east London girls – Amira Abase, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16 – were met by Mohammed Al Rasheed at Istanbul Train Station to help them get into Islamic State. Having attempted to return to the UK four years later, she was stripped of her citizenship and told she would never be able to come back. In recent years, Begum has been at the centre of a row over her rights after joining IS in 2015, the Metro recalls. Having spent 2 years interviewing 100+ intelligence officials, digging through archives - and explaining to some people that I'm writing about the spy network - not the burger chain - my book about the #FiveEyes will be out on September 1 ![]() Reports suggest the Metropolitan Police was eventually told that the trio – all teenagers at the time – were trafficked to the terror group by a people smuggler informing for Canada’s intelligence agency.īut it has been alleged that the move was covered up, before Canada privately admitted being involved, but asked Britain not to publicly reveal what happened. However, officials then successfully convinced their British counterparts to go along with the cover-up. Journalist Richard Kerbaj, the book's author, claims that Canada eventually admitted to the involvement of one of their agents because they feared the plot being exposed. ![]() The book, according to The Times, claims that Britain conspired with Canada to cover up the role in the girls' disappearance. ![]()
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