Daily Mirror

Racists were waiting for this Huge sighs of relief at MI5

- BY ANILA BAIG BY CHRIS HUGHES

MY kneejerk reaction when I first heard about the runaway schoolgirl was to demand her head.

I thought: “She admitted she wasn’t fazed by decapitate­d heads in the bin, she makes the rest of us moderate Muslims guilty by associatio­n, she is evil. Good riddance.” But we don’t revoke the citizenshi­p of other criminals, no matter how heinous their atrocities.

We respect the law and try them in court. Well, not any more. The real message from this nonsensica­l ruling is if you are brown you are not really British.

After decades of trying to continuall­y prove our allegiance to this country, it turns out we aren’t accepted at all.

It’s what racial extremists have waited for – the right to send us back to where we don’t come from. It makes me sick.

MANY counter-terror bosses feared the Supreme Court would rule in Ms Begum’s favour, paving the way for dozens of British jihadis to return.

The Home Office says she is a serious terror risk. She certainly could be a danger here as IS was skilled at teaching followers how to hide radicalise­d intent.

All the British IS prisoners in Syria who have been interviewe­d by the Daily Mirror claim they did nothing wrong. And what could be more convincing than a child bride who has lost three babies and has been left to rot in Syria?

Had she been allowed to return she would have been watched very closely by officers, costing taxpayers millions.

And yesterday there were huge sighs of relief at MI5 and the police’s Counter Terrorism Command.

SAUDI Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation that led to the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, US intelligen­ce has claimed.

A declassifi­ed report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligen­ce confirmed findings reached by the CIA weeks after the journalist was killed.

The review, released yesterday, concluded that Prince Mohammed played a part in the decision to “capture or kill” Khashoggi in October 2018.

It said it was “highly unlikely”

Saudi officials would have carried out an operation of that nature without his authorisat­ion.

The assessment also noted the royal’s “support for using violent measures to silence dissidents abroad” including Khashoggi, 59.

The journalist, who was highly critical of Saudi Arabia’s government, was dismembere­d at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The US also announced sanctions on Saudi Arabian citizens, saying it will not tolerate those who threaten or assault activists on behalf of foreign government­s.

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