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UK Rejects Trump Team’s Call to Repatriate ‘ISIS Bride’

Foreign Secretary David Lammy says ISIS supporter Shamima Begum will remain in Syrian camp — despite protests from Trump pick Seb Gorka.

Shamima Begum, who left the U.K. to join ISIS while at school, will not be allowed to leave Syria and return to Britain, the government’s top diplomat confirmed Thursday — despite urging from Donald Trump’s incoming team.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy was asked about Begum’s future after the U.S. president-elect’s pick for Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka said the U.K. should repatriate British members of the Islamist terror group currently held in Syrian detention camps.

“Any nation which wishes to be seen as a serious ally and friend of the most powerful nation in the world should act in a fashion that reflects that serious commitment,” Gorka told the Times newspaper, stressing that this applied “doubly so for the U.K.”

Read the rest of the story at POLITICO.

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