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Shamima Begum, left, remains in a camp in northern Syria. Inset, Kadiza Sultana, then 16,
Begum, 15, and Amira Abase, 15, caught on CCTV in 2015
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‘Western spy’ took Shamima Begum to

Syria
Britain conspired with Canada to cover up role in girls’
disappearance, book claims

Fiona Hamilton, Crime and Security Editor | Dominic Kennedy, Investigations Editor

Tuesday August 30 2022, 7.15pm BST, The Times

A spy working for Canadian intelligence smuggled Shamima

Begum and her two friends from Bethnal Green into Syria and
Britain later conspired with Canada to cover up its role, a book
has claimed.

Scotland Yard was told that the teenagers were trafficked into
Syria by a people-smuggler who was a double agent working for
Islamic State and Canadian intelligence.

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An inquiry was demanded last night as it emerged that Canada

knew about the teenagers’ fate but kept silent while the
Metropolitan Police ran a frantic, international search for the
trio. Canada privately admitted its involvement only when it
feared being exposed, and then successfully asked the British to
cover up its role, the book claimed.

The scandal reopens the debate over stripping Begum of her

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