Three British schoolgirls who fled the country last month to join ISIS will not face any terrorism-related charges if they return, according to counterterrorism chief Mark Rowley.
Rowley, who was testifying to the British parliament, says there is no evidence the three girls have done anything terrorism related, and also denied there was any wrongdoing by police in their fleeing the country.
“There was nothing more we could have done to prevent” the girls leaving the country, Rowley insisted, saying it was unrealistic for people to expect the police to stop every 15-year-old girl trying to join ISIS.
Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe went on to say that a “minimum” of 700 Britons are known to have gone to Syria to join militant groups, the largest figure British officials have yet put forward.
Hmmm… Julian Assange remains locked up in the Ecudorean Embassy in London because the UK thugs want to deport him on a bogus "rape" charge levied by some he-never-called-me-again Swedish celebrity bimbo. And the UK cops are quite serious about that.
Yet here, they mumble and lie about having no ability to keep three juvenile females, aged 15, from flying w/o any adults to a foreign country where they have no friends or relatives. A well known (and nearly only) jumping off point for IS militant wannabes.
No one accused these idiot girls of being terrorists, only that they seem to be heading for that.
The UK cops and security establishment is hardly hands off most of the time. Juveniles traveling unaccompanied to strange places may not be "illegal" but surely should be worth a short delay in travel to check w/ parents and guardians about such plans.
The MI-5 in the UK is about as in your face as Russia's FSB, or even more so.
This kind of police dissembling and lying is disgusting. Anyone who believes the "we didn't do anything wrong" baloney is a fool.
I would wager that UK and US support for the FSA for the past 4 years led to far more young folks going to Syria to support FSA — and later converting to al-Nusra or Daesh — than are currently going directly to Daesh. The US and UK have been busy sowing the fields since 2011.