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Shamima Begum Loses Appeal Against Ban On Return To UK by Nobody: 3:04pm On Feb 22, 2023
Shamima Begum travelled to Syria with two other teenage girls in 2015 to marry Daesh* terrorists. The British government revoked her citizenship in 2019 and refused to allow her to return to the UK, despite her new secular image and pleas of victimhood

Daesh bride Shamima Begum has lost her legal appeal against the British government's ban on her returning to the UK.
Begum, now aged 23, had appealed an earlier ruling upholding then home secretary Sajid Javid's decision in 2019 to revoke her British citizenship after she was taken prisoner in Syria.
Her legal team argued at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) hearings that she was an underage victim of sexual trafficking, which authorities should have acted to prevent, and that Javid's decision had violated her human rights.

But lawyers for the Home Office said it "continues to assess" that Begum poses a threat to the UK.
Begum's team vowed that the case was "nowhere near over" after the defeat, which followed a 2021 Supreme Court ruling denying her entry to the UK while she continued her battle to regain citizenship.
Among them was well-known solicitor and campaigner for wrongly-imprisoned people Gareth Pierce, who called the ruling "an extraordinary judgment delivered in an extraordinary way."

She said the commission "is clearly deeply troubled by the case it is having to decide and by the limitations placed on it by the Supreme Court."

"The implication, the outcome, that we face is that no British child who has been trafficked outside the UK will be protected by the British state if the home secretary invokes national security," Pierce claimed.
Begum, then only 15, and two other girls from the same school in east London flew to Turkiye in 2015 before crossing the border into northern Syria for arranged marriages to Daesh terrorists. She was wed to another European recruit, Dutchman Yago Riedijk.
They had three children together, all of whom died in infancy — the third in the notorious al-Hawl prison camp run by Washington-backed Kurdish separatist insurgents in the area of north-east Syria still illegally occupied by US troops.


The Dutch government has refused to let Riedijk, also a prisoner of the Kurdish forces, return to the Netherlands.
In a concession to Begum's legal team, the tribunal ruled that "the motive for bringing her to Syria was sexual exploitation to which, as a child, she could not give a valid consent."

"Further, there is some merit in the argument that those advising the Secretary of State see this as a black and white issue, when many would say that there are shades of grey," said Mr Justice Jay in his conclusion.

Begum has since changed her image from the black-robed and veiled enforced of the strict Daesh dress code to that of a secular Western woman, and has apologized for her decision to join the sectarian terrorist army in several interviews.
The Times Magazine came under fire earlier in February for publishing a 'glow-up' cover photo of the jihadi bride in her new look, with a sympathetic interview at the al-Roj camp where prisoners are allowed to buy fashion goods and make-up from a shop. The BBC was also condemned for releasing an online podcast series by Begum entitled 'I'm Not a Monster.'
The Home Office said it would continue to oppose Begum's return.

"The government's priority remains maintaining the safety and security of the UK and we will robustly defend any decision made in doing so," a spokeswoman said.

*Daesh, also known as ISIS/IS/Islamic State is a terrorist organization banned in Russia and internationally by UN Security Council resolutions.

https://sputniknews.com/20230222/daesh-bride-shamima-begum-loses-appeal-against-ban-on-return-to-uk-1107700966.html


Used and discarded grin
The same fate awaits those few neocolonialists/Nazi bootlickers..you cannot escape it grin


BidenDConqueror:
As rottennaija rightly noted, the general activities of Western ass lickers has declined.
Although a few of them swarmed back as soon this observation got attention.

The question is, why are they quiet? Why are they underperforming?
Did they come to the realization that they have been misled?
Applying a two prong approach to the aforesaid deception.
It's either they unlearned the propaganda they were fat on and developed the mental and cognitive ability to see through the imbelic and farcical narrative of thier handlers.
OR
THEY WERE ABANDONED(like the discarded Afghans that supported the defeated US lead coalition in Afghanistan)...
Was your Visa denied? Did you also get served?(your dose of deception)
Please talk to us, we want to know grin
The latter appears to be the only plausible theory.

I'll elaborate on the abandoned Afghans and Stepan Bandera in my next post.





BidenDConqueror:
Stepan Bandera
Next..The discarded Afghans and the voting result of a UN resolution to combat the glorification of Nazism and other contemporary forms of racism.
It's noteworthy that due to race, Ukrainian refugees got special treatment in migrating to the West while the Westerners abandoned the Afghan refugees in Afghanistan


More details on Begum soon

Re: Shamima Begum Loses Appeal Against Ban On Return To UK by Nobody: 3:09pm On Feb 22, 2023
Teen who fled U.K., joined ISIS was smuggled into Syria by spy for Canada:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/national/world/2022/8/31/1_6050852.amp.html
Re: Shamima Begum Loses Appeal Against Ban On Return To UK by Nobody: 3:14pm On Feb 22, 2023
Canadian MSM grin



A spy for Canada is accused of smuggling a teenager into Syria in 2015, after she fled the United Kingdom to join the Islamic State group, according to BBC News.

Shamima Begum, then 15, was one of three teenage girls reported missing from an East London neighbourhood in 2015 after they allegedly fled to join ISIS.

Unbeknownst to them, the man who helped get them across the border into Syria was a double agent, working as a foreign operative for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the BBC says.

Information gathered by international law enforcement and intelligence implicates Mohammed Al Rasheed with smuggling Begum and other British citizens into Islamic State territory while working as an informant.

According to documents obtained by the BBC, Al Rasheed went to the Embassy of Canada in Jordan to try to apply for asylum in 2013, and was told he would receive Canadian citizenship if he agreed to collect information about the activities of ISIS.

He then began helping people enter Islamic State territory in Syria from Turkey, while sharing their information with Canadian intelligence. He claims to have helped 15 people from western countries travel into ISIS territory, while being paid by Canada to share intel on the flow of foreign fighters.

He operated as part of an ISIS people-smuggling network for approximately eight months before he allegedly helped Begum enter Syria, the BBC reports. He was arrested in Turkey days later.

Begum has since said she was at a "vulnerable point" in her life, and that "it was easy for people to take advantage of (her)."

She is now in a detention camp in Syria and wants to be allowed to return to England. The British Home Office denied her entry and stripped her of her citizenship, citing security risks.

Unable to return home, the BBC reports, she is still being held in a detention camp in northeast Syria.

In light of these allegations, Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for Begum's family, told the BBC the family plans to challenge the removal of her citizenship on the grounds that the British government did not recognize her as a victim of human trafficking when it revoked her citizenship.

"The U.K. has international obligations as to how we view a trafficked person and what culpability we prescribe to them for their actions," he told the BBC.

Akunjee said he was shocked that a Canadian intelligence asset was part of the smuggling operation.

"Someone who is supposed to be an ally, protecting our people, rather than trafficking British children into a war zone," he told the BBC.

"Intelligence-gathering looks to have been prioritized over the lives of children."

Exactly what Canada knew and shared with British authorities about the whereabouts of Begum and her friends is now embroiled in controversy and making headlines overseas.

In a news conference Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn't deny Ottawa's involvement with the operative. He said that while the Canadian intelligence services need to be "flexible" and "creative" in their fight against terrorism, they are bound by strict rules.

"There are rigorous oversight mechanisms that are in place with the clearances necessary to look into the operations and the decisions taken by intelligence services in their work to keep Canada and Canadians safe in a very dangerous world," he told reporters.

"I know there are questions about certain incidents or operations of the past and we will ensure to follow up on this."

It's alleged that Canadian officials and British intelligence withheld information when the Metropolitan police in London started searching for Begum and her friends.

If that's the case, it was for good reason, according to Mubin Shaikh, who previously worked as an undercover source with CSIS.

"If he would have been exposed … ISIS would have sawed his head off on camera for everyone to see to dissuade other spies from trying to work with western nations," the counter-terrorism expert told CTV National News Wednesday.

Asked how Shaikh believes CSIS would have viewed this informant, the former source said: "certainly a treasure trove is what he produced, not just for the Canadians but for other intelligence agencies as well."

CTV News reached out to CSIS for comment, but the agency declined to respond.

Correction:This story has been corrected to reflect a transcription error in a updated version of the original story.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/national/world/2022/8/31/1_6050852.amp.html
Re: Shamima Begum Loses Appeal Against Ban On Return To UK by Nobody: 3:31pm On Feb 22, 2023
Canada's spy agency accused of 'nabbing British children and trafficking them' to Islamic State

Asked if CSIS went too far and if there would be an inquiry, Justin Trudeau said 'rigorous oversight mechanisms' monitor CSIS operations

Ottawa is accused of covering up its handling of a double agent who smuggled British teenagers into Islamic State territory to join the terror group while he was spying for Canada.

Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, did not deny Ottawa’s work with an operative smuggling Western children to a dangerous battlefield, as outlined in a new book, saying that Canada’s spy agency must “be flexible and be creative” in the war against terrorists.

A book about Western intelligence agencies says that while police in Britain were searching for three schoolgirls who left their homes in London in 2015, Canadian intelligence and diplomatic officials withheld information about where they were and how they got there.

Canada then worked with British authorities to cover up its role, according to allegations on this long-percolating controversy in The Secret History of the Five Eyes by Richard Kerbaj, who was the security beat reporter for Britain’s Sunday Times from 2010 to 2020.

Canada was part of the military coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq at the time.

The book’s details are igniting alarming headlines internationally.

The information is particularly controversial in Britain because one of those smuggled teens was Shamima Begum, then 15, who remains in a detention camp in Syria fighting to return to Britain after her British citizenship was stripped from her because of her support for IS.

Part of Begum’s argument for returning is that she is a victim of human trafficking.

Tasnime Akunjee, Begum’s lawyer, told National Post that Canada’s actions facilitated human trafficking of minors.

“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,” Akunjee said.

“Britain has lauded its efforts to stop ISIS and the grooming of our children by spending millions of pounds on the Prevent program and online monitoring. However, at the very same time we have been cooperating with a western ally, trading sensitive intelligence with them” as they worked with Mohammed Al Rashed, who claimed to be a spy for Canada.

“The calculation here is that the lives of British children, and the risk of their death, is part of the algorithm of acceptable risk that our Western allies have taken,” Akunjee said.

Begum herself recently told the BBC about Rashed saying: “He organized 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.

“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.”

The issue of Rashed’s role was first revealed in 2015 after the high-profile disappearance of Begum, along with schoolmates Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16.

The three left their homes in England and flew to Turkey to join the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, where they were met by Rashed.

Rashed then helped smuggle them into IS controlled territory. He was arrested by Turkish police soon after.

Turkish media reported in 2015 on Turkish intelligence leaks, writing that Rashed carried documents, photos, and videos revealing his activities, including a video — apparently taken by Rashed with a hidden camera — showing him with the missing British girls near Turkey’s border with Syria.

Rashed told Turkish authorities he built a relationship with Canadian officials in 2013 when he sought asylum in Canada. He said in a statement to police at the time he was offered Canadian citizenship in return for information on IS, according to contemporary reports.

Rashed’s police statement said he was working for CSIS and passed information through Canada’s embassy in Jordan. Postmedia reported at the time that the embassy in Amman was run by a former RCMP officer who was Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former top bodyguard.

Rashed was described as a Syrian dentist, also known as Mohammed Mehmet Rashid and Dr. Mehmet Rashid, who fled from Syria in 2013 during the civil war, moving to Jordan and then sought protection from Canada at its embassy in Amman.

A Turkish pro-government newspaper reported at the time that Rashed then travelled to Canada for several months before returning to the Middle East to work as a spy.

He claimed to have helped 15 people from Western countries travel into IS territory while working with CSIS and being paid by Canada to investigate the flow of foreign fighters to the IS battlefields.

“For seven years now, this has been covered up by the Canadians,” Kerbaj told The Guardian newspaper.

“I think the cover-up is worse than the offence in many ways here because you would expect human intelligence agencies to recruit members of criminal groups and terrorist groups,” he said.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-spy-agency-accused-of-nabbing-british-children-and-trafficking-them-to-islamic-state

The smuggler that was promised Canadian Citizenship was also used and discarded grin

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