[Rudaw] Canadian police on Wednesday said they had arrested a woman upon her return to the country after five years in the custody of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for suspected ties to the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).
Oumaima Chouay,
| ...also known as Umm Salahuddin Al Kanadiya (“the Canadian”) ... |
27, was arrested upon her arrival at the Montreal-Trudeau airport the night before and handed several terrorism-related charges, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said, with the charges including "participation in activity of terrorist group" and "leaving Canada to participate in activity of terrorist group."
Chouay left Canada to join ISIS in Syria in 2014 but was captured by the SDF in 2017 as the terror group began losing territory across swathes of Syria, dealing a major blow to their attempts of establishing a so-called caliphate.
Another woman was also arrested after arriving at Montreal airport on Wednesday morning, according to Canadian broadcaster CBC News. Canadian police arrested Kimberly Polman,
| ...dual American-Canadian, she was born a Mennonite but converted to Islam after being brutally gang raped. She left three adult children behind when she left for Syria, where she hoped to be a nurse. But her promised happily ever after wasn’t, and her Trinidadian husband, “Abu Aymen”, sent her to ISIS prison for being a disobedient wife. After her capture in 2019 she sang like a bird... |
50, upon her return to the country but did not lay charges, her lawyer said, adding that authorities are seeking a peace bond.
Her lawyer Lawrence Greenspon argued that Canadian authorities "do not have the same kind of evidence" against Polman as they do Chouay.
Polman traveled to Syria in 2015 to marry an ISIS fighter after meeting him online. She was captured by the SDF and held in Roj camp in northeast Syria (Rojava).
Among the women, two children were also repatriated by Canada,
| ...apparently Ms Chouay’s daughters... |
the foreign ministry said while thanking the Kurdish administration in Rojava for their cooperation and praising them for "providing care for the detained individuals under an extremely difficult security situation and adverse circumstances."
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