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2015-03-11 Britain
Families of three missing Syria girls demand police apology
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] The families of the three London girls who flew to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to join Isis in Syria told MPs of their anger that police failed to tell them that a close schoolfriend had already linked up with Lion of Islam fighters.

They told MPs they had no idea the teenagers had been radicalised, but protested that they might have been able to act if they had been warned that a fellow pupil had recently travelled to the warzone.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, apologised that his officers had failed to communicate more directly with the families.

But he insisted there was nothing more the force could have done to prevent the departures of Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15.
Posted by Fred 2015-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 Wasn't our fault we raised our kids wrong and didn't have a clue. And weren't watching. And stuff.
Posted by Richard Aubrey  2015-03-11 08:05||   2015-03-11 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Personally I think the family knew and supported the girls.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-03-11 09:14||   2015-03-11 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 And if the police did say something, they would have been accused of raceslamicexsm.
Posted by swksvolFF 2015-03-11 10:57||   2015-03-11 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 he insisted there was nothing more the force could have done to prevent the departures

None the less, they'll all be promoted.
Posted by Pappy 2015-03-11 12:36||   2015-03-11 12:36|| Front Page Top

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