A few days ago, controversy returned to the British government after it demanded convincing explanations about how Shamima Begum, known as the “Bride of ISIS”, was recruited into the ranks of this organization and how she was transferred from this organization. England to Turkey and then Syria.
While the investigation continues, new information indicates that the Turkish authorities have released the Canadian double agent who was involved in the Begum smuggling case at the age of fifteen.
He added that Mohammad al-Rashid is free as of noon on Friday, and according to a report in the Telegraph, he may receive political asylum in Canada.
While the Canadian Intelligence Service is planning to transfer this agent for clear reasons, the first of which is that Turkey will no longer accept him in its territory, and on the other hand, if he is transferred to Syria, he will be executed by ISIS. became. Betrayal and on behalf of the regime accused of helping terrorist organizations.
While it was revealed that the Canadian security services concealed Rasheed as a Canadian spy who was involved in the smuggling of an “ISIS bride” while Britain was on an international search for him, and the Canadian government hid information about the young man’s whereabouts. At the time, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his country’s stance as British police issued public manhunt alerts for her.
He believed that the fight against terrorism required his intelligence services to be flexible and, as he called it, creative in their approaches.
However, Canada’s decision may not go unnoticed, raising tensions between British and Canadian intelligence services, especially since both are members of the five-nation intelligence group, which also includes the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
It is worth noting that this information has become public knowledge after the confession of the “ISIS bride” in a recent interview about the meeting of a man named Mohammad Al-Rashid with two of his friends, 16-year-old Kadiza Sultanah and Amir Abbasi. 15, at a bus station in Istanbul to facilitate their travel to the organization’s areas in Syria.
It was later revealed that he was a double agent who gave Begum’s passport information to Canada and smuggled dozens of people from Britain to fight for ISIS, and that the Canadian government covered up the matter for nearly 7 years.
And it turns out that the Canadian embassy in Jordan promised Rashid citizenship in 2013, when he applied for asylum, two years before Shamima was trafficked, if he gathered information about ISIS activities.
In addition, the accused admitted that he was taking photos of the passports he had smuggled to buy tickets to ISIS, but actually sent them to a Canadian intelligence agent.
In Begum’s case, she was a 15-year-old British student who traveled to Syria from East London in 2015 with two of her classmates at Bethnal Green Academy. She joined the terrorist organization ISIS before marrying a Dutch-born extremist for 8 years. He was many years older than her and gave birth to 3 children from her, all of whom died.
This girl was stripped of British citizenship in 2019 for reasons of national security.
All his efforts and pleas for his pardon failed, even though his life is in danger in the northern camps.
However, he announced that he will submit a new application to the Special Committee on Immigration Applications in November.
Source: Lebanon Debate
