(Globe and Mail) An informant working for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, who smuggled three British schoolgirls into Syria for the Islamic State in 2015, breached the spy service’s rules that prohibit paid recruits from engaging in illegal activities including human trafficking.
Trafficking people is also an offence under the Canadian Criminal Code and an international protocol on the practice of which Ottawa is a signatory.
Informant Mohammed al-Rashed trafficked the British teens into Syria for Islamic State on Feb. 17, 2015. Britain’s Scotland Yard was frantically searching for the missing teens at the time and was unaware that they had been smuggled into Syria by an operative working for Canada. Ottawa’s relations with Turkey were also damaged by running an operative in the country without its knowledge.
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