We should get used to Americans meddling in our affairs, but this one is really stuck.
Right-wing TV pundit turned junior Trump official Sebastian Gorka says Britain should return Shamima Begum as a goodwill gesture.
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Trump official Sebastian Gorka said Britain should return Shamima Begum
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Begum, now 25, is in a camp for Syrian refugeesCredit: Getty
The ISIS poster girl, who was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019, is now a boring 25-year-old rotting away in a Syrian refugee camp, hopefully regretting her life choices.
It is inevitable that Mr. Gorka started another round of bullying.
But his lecture might have carried more weight if the US hadn’t held a dozen terrorists without trial for nearly 25 years.
We don’t do things like that here, so I would politely suggest that he drop out.
For now, Labor is talking a good game.
As Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “She is not a UK citizen. We will act in the interest of our security.”
I’m not against taking responsibility for the innocent, but safety is at the heart of it.
It is true that we have already brought British orphans back from Syrian camps and placed them in the care system.
British troops successfully pulled out those failed terrorist kids, who found themselves in a living hell through no fault of their own.
They were the children of our dead citizens who turned their backs on the West to embrace the bloody cult of death.
ISIS bride Shamima Begum has LOST her battle for British citizenship and must stay in Syria for now
Many of these maniac mums and dads met their fate at the sharp end of the RAF’s Reaper drone, and rightly so.
But their children had no choice and it is only right that we returned them to what little chance they had of recovering from the most horrific and cruel start in life.
But Begum is different.
And the ministers have files – that’s why they took away her British passport.
This was no blushing ISIS bride, but – according to her barbarian comrades, captured by the Dutch – an active AK47-wielding militant.
The intelligence they shared with Britain is terrifying.
And when it was leaked to me in 2019, it was never officially denied.
Witnesses say they saw poor innocent Shamima preparing suicide vests for would-be martyrs – sewing them on the bombers so they couldn’t evade their orders.
Moreover, Begum stayed until the bitter end when ISIS was driven out of Raqqa in 2017.
Many aspiring jihadists quickly saw their mistake after heading from Europe to the sandy killing fields of Syria and exited.
No Begum.
SUICIDE VEST
She says: “Once we lost Raqqa, we had to move and move and move.” (Note the use of “we”.)
She denied making the suicide vests, but awkwardly added: “They have no evidence that I did anything dangerous.”
Let’s at least be honest about what her return actually means.
Many will speak highly of her being tried in Britain, but that is nonsense.
Leaving aside the moral shock of hundreds of people fleeing the comfort of the middle class into the middle ages of the caliphate, it would also be a legal black hole.
The Anti-Terrorism and Border Security Act banned travel to terrorism hotspots.
But it only entered into force in 2019 and cannot be applied retroactively.
Most of the intelligence gathered after the fall of Raqqa is unlikely to be admissible in court for a crime that did not take place in this country.
As mentioned before, we don’t imprison people without trial like our cousins across the pond, so what her advocates are really saying is Free Shamima.
Our security services are already stretched to breaking point, as the horrors of the Manchester bombing investigation have shown.
They are being asked not only to work against the ongoing Islamist threat, but to root out the far right and now get involved in cracking down on smugglers in the canal.
PUBLIC MONEY
Arguing for Begum’s return is arguing that vital resources, dozens of police officers every day, should be diverted to guarding her as she walks from the TV studio for breakfast to the benefits office.
She will live off the state coffers under 24 hour surveillance for our protection and hers.
All the while, other conspiracies can slip through the net that could see even more maimed and killed just for living their free lives.
I don’t want it on my conscience or that there is no public reaction to another attack when Begum has exhausted the operating budgets.
Her fate rests solely in the hands of the Kurds who are currently guarding her or that nice cuddly new Syrian regime.
She chose 2015 to leave and every day until 2018 she chose to stay.
Britain owes her nothing.
I am told that the one-to-one relationship between Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer is warm, friendly and professional.
But behind the scenes, the transition period was far from smooth.
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The US has revealed that Peter Mandelson is their new ambassador from X
The appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador was a particular flashpoint – not least because key people who will be in the White House next week learned about it by reading X/Twitter.
Just days before, new No. 10 national security adviser Jonathan Powell was in Florida for meetings with Trump’s team.
They have made it very clear that while a new ambassador appointment is expected, they have a good relationship with the current incumbent, Karen Pierce, and would like her to remain in charge through the early parts of Trump’s second term.
I hear that Powell’s direct attempts to reconcile have been rebuffed and his calls have gone unanswered.
It wasn’t until No. 10 made it clear that Pierce would stay for next week’s inauguration and Starmer’s first visit to DC — early next month — that things calmed down.
But they took another step back when the content of the conversation between Trump and Starmer was leaked to the press.
This behind-the-scenes relationship will be crucial for the Starmer government.
The verdict of Trump’s former allies? “Not really impressed,” according to my mole.
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