A former Canadian intelligence officer has called for Shamima Begum to be returned to the UK because of what she claims were failures and a cover up involving the spy agency she once worked for.
Huda Mukbil, who used to be a senior officer at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, says her former colleagues broke their own rules because the smuggler who brought Ms Begum and two school friends into Syria was also working as a covert source for the agency at the same time.
Next week the latest step in Ms Begum’s battle to have her British citizenship reinstated is expected to come to court.
The 23-year-old was stripped of her British citizenship in February 2019 when the Home Secretary judged her to be a threat to national security.
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