Bringing 'Em Back or Not? (I.D.'ed Cdn ISIS fighters, families, kids?)

[daftandbarmy]

What is it with people from Squamish?

They're a very passionate people... might have something to do with being able to own your own home so close to alot of great drugs


“My radicalization was really about impressing my boyfriend, Gerry. What turned Gerry on was me being a militant urban guerrilla. … He wasn’t my boyfriend, he had no feelings for me.”

Ian Mulgrew: Former Squamish Five terrorist transforms from bombing to filmmaking

Juliet Belmas was sentenced to 20 years for her role in the Squamish Five after waging a violent campaign in the early 1980s that included bombing an Ontario factory making U.S. missile parts.

vancouversun.com

 

[GK .Dundas]

Just moved these last two posts here where they & other returnees have been discussed.

Milnet.ca Staff

This from the RCMP info-machine ...

BC RCMP - BC woman charged with terrorism offences

BC woman charged with terrorism offences

bc-cb.rcmp-grc.gc.ca

... and a bit of back story (Nov 2023) ...

B.C. ‘sexy senior’ was part of ISIS women’s battalion, RCMP alleges | Globalnews.ca

Kimberly Polman was allegedly trained by ISIS to fight. The Canadian served in Katibah Nusaybah, an ISIS branch that provided weapons training to women.

globalnews.ca

... and what Wikipedia has to say about that ISIS female unit

Katibah Nusantara - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Usual reminder: According to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "Any person charged with an offence has the right .... to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal."

I think I'd like to know more about this Sean Moore fellow.

 

[The Bread Guy]

I think I'd like to know more about this Sean Moore fellow.

Quite the ... adventurer, him - an initial Google-fu shows he seems to have done work trying to help Yazidis et. al. in/around Kurdistan. Some back story going back to 2015 ...

Local men aiding refugees in Iraq | The Chatham Voice

Unhappy with delays and politicization of humanitarian aid, three men are headed to Iraq next month to provide aid to a town full of refugees from the Islamic terrorist group ISIS. Sean Moore and Phiez Solomon will be returning to the war-ravaged town of Duhok Seje in the region of Kurdistan in...

chathamvoice.com

Chatham man detained by al Qaeda affiliate to meet with Trudeau

In a recent Facebook post, Moore says he has received an email from the Prime Minister’s office and is looking forward to speaking with him soon.

windsor.ctvnews.ca

Sean Moore and Jeff Bultje plan to bring message of hope

Two Chatham men are heading to Iraq Nov. 13 to help some of the innocent people caught up in the war with the terrorist group ISIS.

www.wallaceburgcourierpress.com

Israeli Gill Rosenberg returns to Iraqi Kurdistan to work with charity

JERUSALEM,— An Israeli-Canadian woman who joined the Kurdish militants fighting Islamic State (IS) in Syrian Kurdistan last year has returned to Kurdistan

ekurd.net

"Canadian man held captive in Syria says he was tortured, kept in cell that felt 'like a coffin' " (cbc.ca)

 

[The Bread Guy]

The latest on one of those wanting to come back to Canada ...

Joly faces calls for probe in death of woman Canada refused to repatriate from Syria

OTTAWA - Advocates want Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to call an impartial investigation into the death of a Canadian woman the federal government refused to repatriate from a Syrian

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

A bit of back story: kids brought back earlier this year ...

Canada repatriates 6 children of woman deemed security risk from ISIS camp - National | Globalnews.ca

The children of a woman detained in a camp for captured ISIS members are now in Canada. The family lawyer said a family will house all six of them together.

globalnews.ca

... without the mom. Federal Court was asked to allow the mom back in late last year ...

Lawyer challenges federal decision to deny help to woman with six children in Syria

OTTAWA — A lawyer is urging the Federal Court to direct the Canadian government to repatriate a Quebec woman being held in a Syrian detention camp with her six children.

www.delta-optimist.com

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/quebec-mother-of-six-repatriation-syria-legal-challenge-1.6977804

... but I can't find the case on the FC site.