Western Standard - September 19, 2022


Islamic State human trafficker may have Canadian asylum

Topics
Muhammad Rashid human trafficking
Mentioned
Rashid Muhammad Rashid Brandon Champagne Richard Grapp
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

128.03

Word count

273

Sentence count

15


Summary

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A Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent who trafficked three British teens to Islamic State militants could be in Canada following his release from a Turkish prison. The federal government will neither confirm nor deny that Mohammed al Rashid, a human smuggler for the Islamic State in Syria, has relocated to Canada.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 A Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent who trafficked three British teens to Islamic State militants could be in Canada following his release from a Turkish prison.
00:00:10.160 Now, the federal government will neither confirm nor deny that Mohammed al-Rashid, a human smuggler for the Islamic State in Syria, has relocated to Canada.
00:00:20.080 Rashid had been in a Turkish prison since 2015 when he was arrested on human smuggling and terrorism charges.
00:00:27.200 Now, CESIS recruited Rashid in 2013, and after his 2015 arrest in Turkey, Canada promised Rashid political asylum after serving his time in the Turkish prison, according to a source.
00:00:40.060 Brandon Champagne, a CESIS spokesperson, did not confirm any details about Rashid.
00:00:45.080 He said, as you can expect, CESIS cannot comment on investigations, methodologies, or activities to maintain the integrity of operations.
00:00:54.100 Now, Richard Karbaj, author of The Secret History of the Five Eyes, told Rashid's story in the book, which included smuggling three British teenage girls from London into Syria to become Islamic State brides.
00:01:07.520 The girls were 15 and 16 years old at the time.
00:01:11.840 Two of the teenage girls smuggled by the CESIS agent are dead, and the one survivor is in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
00:01:18.820 She wants to return to the United Kingdom, but her UK citizenship was stripped because of her involvement with the Islamic State.
00:01:26.820 Read the full story at westernstandard.news.
00:01:30.160 I'm Chris Olcorn reporting for the Western Standard.
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00:01:40.680 You can get the kids look, let's get them to be
00:02:07.040 Anyway, I'm Chris Ol Spy.