Canadian intelligence helped smuggle Shamima Begum and other Britons to Syria to join Daesh over the years, a new book has claimed. According to Richard Kerbaj, former security correspondent of The Sunday Times, his upcoming book 'The Secret History of the Five Eyes' states that Canadian intelligence recruited a human trafficker named Mohammed Al-Rashed when he applied for asylum at the Canadian embassy in Jordan. After photographing the passports of Begum and her friends, claiming that he needed proof of identity to buy transport tickets, Rashed forwarded those images to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The escape to Syria and Begum – who hailed from Bethnal Green and was only 15 years old at the time of the incident […]
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![Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, 15, holds her sister's photo as she is interviewed by the media at New Scotland Yard, as the relatives of three missing schoolgirls believed to have fled to Syria to join Daesh have pleaded for them to return home, on 22 February 2015 in London, England. [Laura Lean - WPA Pool/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GettyImages-464129912.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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