The Media & Their Narratives.

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Here's a fine example of Donald Rumsfeld's quote: "...because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things
we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not
know.

But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history
of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones..."
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The general narrative of the legacy media was that fifteen year-old Shamima Begum was a young girl who left the UK
and went -with two other friends, to Syria in order to fight for ISIS. Later, she was discovered in al-Roj prison camp and
it was revealed that she'd given birth to three children from her Dutch-born IS fighter husband, all of them died.

With the MSM constantly suggesting Begum should be returned to the UK and the public should forgive her juvenile
conduct, her case was presented to the the UK Government's UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who tackled the situation
in the high courts and Begum was stripped of her British citizenship.


Amira Abase (from left), Kadiza Sultana and Shamima Begum go through Gatwick airport, south of London,
on 17th Feb. 2015

(Images on the right) Shamima Begum pictured in 2019 in her Islamic clothing and later photographed in March
of 2021 wearing Western attire in Al Roj Camp, in northeastern Syria.


The media jumped on the sensational story of a little Muslim girl and her friends sneaking away to fight for a belief and
then being stuck in an awkward position. The public were urged to comment on the strange set of circumstances and it
seemed the overwhelming consensus was that young Shamima had made her bed and therefore, should lay in it.

Dressed in her black niqab, Ms Begum explained to the BBC camera how she'd been duped by the exciting aspects of
ISIS dogma and that though it was later reported that she'd witnessed beheadings, stitched suicide vests and carried an
AK-47’, she had been just a silly girl reading too-much off the internet.

Now, that narrative is changing.

Shamima Begum: Spy for Canada smuggled schoolgirl to Syria

'Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group, was smuggled into Syria by an intelligence agent for Canada.
Files seen by the BBC show he claimed to have shared Ms Begum's passport details with Canada, and smuggled other Britons to fight
for IS. Ms Begum's lawyers are challenging the removal of her citizenship, arguing she was a trafficking victim.



Canada and the UK declined to comment on security issues.

Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - travelled to
Syria to join the IS group in 2015. At the main Istanbul bus station, the girls met Mohammed Al Rasheed, who would facilitate their
journey to IS-controlled Syria. A senior intelligence officer, at an agency which is part of the global coalition against IS, has confirmed
to the BBC that Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to IS.

The BBC has obtained a dossier on Rasheed that contains information gathered by law enforcement and intelligence, as well as
material recovered from his hard drives, which provide extraordinary detail about how he operated. He told authorities that he had
gathered information on the people he helped into Syria because he was passing it to the Canadian embassy in Jordan.

Rasheed, who was arrested in Turkey within days of smuggling Ms Begum to IS, told authorities he had shared a photo of the passport
the British schoolgirl was using. The Metropolitan Police were searching for her, although by the time Canada received her passport details,
Ms Begum was already in Syria.

The dossier shows that Ms Begum was moved to Syria through a substantial IS people-smuggling network that was controlled from the
group's de-facto capital in Raqqa. Rasheed was in charge of the Turkish side of this network and facilitated the travel of British men,
women and children to IS for at least eight months before he helped Ms Begum and her two friends.

Ms Begum told the BBC's forthcoming I'm Not A Monster podcast: "He organised the entire trip from Turkey to Syria… I don't think
anyone would have been able to make it to Syria without the help of smugglers. "He had helped a lot of people come in… We were
just doing everything he was telling us to do because he knew everything, we didn't know anything."

Rasheed kept information about the people he helped, often photographing their ID documents or secretly filming them on his phone.
One recording shows Ms Begum and her friends get out of a taxi and into a waiting car not far from the Syrian border. Rasheed also
gathered information about IS, mapping the locations of the homes of Western IS fighters in Syria, identifying IP addresses and
locations of internet cafes in IS-controlled territory, and taking screenshots of conversations he was having with IS fighters.

In one conversation, Rasheed spoke to a man believed to be notorious British IS fighter and recruiter, Raphael Hostey, who says to
him: "I need you to work under me. Officially… I want you to help us bring people in." In a follow-up text, Rasheed asks Hostey:
"Can you explain a little, please?"

Hostey says: "Same thing that you're doing now, but you work for us bringing equipment, bringing in brothers and sisters".
Mohammed Al Rasheed replies: "I am ready, brother." Rasheed was arrested in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa not long after
he had facilitated the girl's journey to Syria.

In a statement to law enforcement, he said that the reason he had gathered information on everyone he had helped, including
Shamima, was because "I was passing this information to the Canadian embassy in Jordan". Rasheed said that in 2013 he
had gone to the Canadian Embassy in Jordan to try to apply for asylum. He said: "They told me they were going to grant me
my Canadian citizenship if I collect information about the activities of ISIS."

The BBC has been able to confirm that Rasheed passed in and out of Jordan multiple times between 2013 and his arrest in 2015.
Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the Begum family, said there will be a legal hearing in November to challenge the removal of
Ms Begum's citizenship and "one of the main arguments" will be that then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid did not consider that
she was a victim of trafficking.

"The UK has international obligations as to how we view a trafficked person and what culpability we prescribe to them for their
actions," he said. Mr Akunjee said it was "shocking" that a Canadian intelligence asset was a key part of the smuggling operation
- "someone who is supposed to be an ally, protecting our people, rather than trafficking British children into a war zone".

"Intelligence-gathering looks to have been prioritised over the lives of children," he said.
Shamima Begum is now held in a detention camp in north-east Syria, her citizenship was taken away in 2019 after she emerged
from the ashes of the so-called IS caliphate. A Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokesman said he could not "publicly
comment on or confirm or deny the specifics of CSIS investigations, operational interests, methodologies or activities".

A British government spokesperson said: "It is our long-standing policy that we do not comment on operational intelligence or
security matters."...'

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