(Globe and Mail) Canada’s spy agency informed British intelligence within 48 hours of learning, in 2015, that an operative had smuggled three British schoolgirls into Syria to join the Islamic State, two sources say.
Scotland Yard was frantically searching for the missing teens in February, 2015, and was apparently unaware that they had been smuggled into Syria by the operative, Mohammed al-Rashed, a double agent who was working for both the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Islamic State.
Mr. al-Rashed transported the girls across the Turkish border on Feb. 17 of that year, and CSIS learned their whereabouts four days later. Within the next two days, Canada passed the details to Britain’s domestic spy agency, known as MI5, and its secret intelligence service, called MI6, the two sources said.
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