Turkey-detained ‘spy' admits ISIL, Canada links

Leaked statements from a Syrian man arrested by Turkish authorities and accused of helping three British girls join Takfiri ISIL terrorists in Syria from Turkey confirms his role as an intelligence operative for Canada as well as a money courier for the Takfiri group.

In leaked statements made to police by the alleged spy, Mohammed al-Rashed, he has identified his Canadian handlers at Ottawa’s embassy in Jordan by their aliases and admitted that he also operated as a courier of funds transferred from overseas to ISIL terrorists in Syria via a Turkish jeweler at a border town, Turkish media reports said Monday.

Rashed was taken into custody by security officers on February 28. Among numerous documents found at his possession and the information discovered in his laptop was a video footage showing him assisting three missing British girls, Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16.

This is while Turkey is widely regarded as a staunch supporter of the ISIL terrorist group and has so far facilitated the transfer of manpower and logistic support for the terrorists fighting the Syrian and Iraqi governments.

Rashed’s leaked statements also reveal that he first came into contact with Canadian authorities in 2013 when he sought political asylum in Canada at its embassy in Jordan (pictured below), where Canadian authorities demanded information from Rashed on ISIL’s operations in exchange for Canadian citizenship, Daily Sabah reported.

According to the report, Rashed identified his handler at the Canadian embassy as “Matt,” who in turn handed over his information to his superior, “Claude.”

“While I was working in a hospital in Raqqa, I was collecting information from the wounded regarding ISIS (ISIL) operations. I was handing this information to Canadian Embassy in Jordan. In order to do this, I was going to Jordan via Istanbul and giving the information to Canadian Embassy officials recorded in my laptop,” Rashed said in his statement to police as cited in the report.

“I was delivering passport information, baggage tags and other details of the ones who came (to join ISIL from abroad) to my embassy contacts. I was also transmitting information to the same place via Internet,” he added.

According to the statement, Rashed also provided his Canadian handlers with information about 12 other individuals he assisted to cross into Syria from Turkey, in addition to the three British school girls (pictured below). “My aim was to learn which ways are being used by the ones who want to join ISIL and transfer this information to Canadian government,” Rashed said in his testimony to Turkish police.

Moreover, Rashed said that, in addition to helping mostly British citizens to illegally slip into Syrian territory, he also aided individuals from South Africa, Indonesia, Australia and Nigeria to join the Takfiri terrorists in Syria’s Raqqa region.

Rashed also told Turkish police that he provided Canadian authorities with information regarding his ISIL contacts, specifically referring to a Raqqa-based British citizen named Abu Kaka, who texted to Rashed information about individuals seeking to join ISIL in Syria via WhatsApp.

Caught with numerous bank receipts at his possession, the double agent also admitted to and explained his role as a courier of funds received from ISIL supporters abroad for the Takfiri terrorists, telling police that “the money was being sent to me, and I was sending the money to my brother in Raqqa via a jeweler in Şanlıurfa.”

He added that ISIL operatives then picked up the funds “from my brother.”

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