(Globe and Mail) An operative for Canada’s spy agency who once trafficked three British teens to Islamic State militants has been released from a Turkish prison, and the federal government will not say if he has been relocated to Canada.
A source with direct knowledge of the situation told the Globe and Mail that the man, Mohammed al-Rashed, a Syrian human smuggler for the Islamic State who was recruited to spy for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, was freed from prison on Aug. 5. He had been incarcerated in Turkey since 2015 on terrorism and smuggling charges.
The source said Turkish authorities did not want Mr. al-Rashed in their country. Their options were either to send him back to Syria, where he would likely face death over his involvement with foreign powers and the Islamic State, or to Canada, the source said.
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