There’s a new revelation in the case of a British schoolgirl accused of joining ISIS and it implicates Canada. Shamima Begum was a teenager when she left the UK for Syria in 2015. The British government then accused her of joining the terrorist group, and stripped her of her citizenship. But a new book about Begum says a spy for Canada’s intelligence service helped smuggle Begum into Syria. And it’s casting her story in a new light. Azadeh Moaveni joins us now to explain. She’s the Director of the Gender & Conflict Project at the International Crisis Group, in New York.
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