UK 'Exporting Terror' With Homegrown IS Recruits

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British authorities are not doing enough to alert parents when their children are at risk of being radicalised online, a lawyer for the family of a young woman who joined Islamic State has said.

Aamer Anwar told Sky News security authorities are not passing on intelligence which could allow families to prevent their children from travelling to Syria or Iraq.

These failings, he said, mean the UK is "exporting terror" abroad.

His comments came as former Faith Minister Baroness Warsi warned that Islamic State's increasing drive to recruit young people online means security services are "fighting an ever losing battle".

"It is becoming more and more apparent that people are not being radicalised in places of worship but in their bedrooms by being on the internet," she told Sky News' Murnaghan Programme.

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Gallery: Final Pictures Of Missing London Schoolgirls

These pictures were taken from Kadiza Sultana (l) and Shamima Begum's (r) twitter accounts

Kadiza and Shamima are feared to be on their way to Syria with a third girl, 15-year-old Amira Abase

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Scotland Yard is urgently trying to trace three teenage girls who are from the same East London school

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CCTV captured images of the girls at Gatwick Airport before boarding a flight to Turkey

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CCTV captured images of the girls at Gatwick Airport before boarding a flight to Turkey. Kadiza Sultana is pictured here

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Mr Anwar was speaking on behalf of the family of 20-year-old Aqsa Mahmood who fled her family home in Glasgow in November 2013 to marry an Islamic State fighter.

She is accused of being among a number of young women now encouraging others back home to follow in their footsteps, something her family has condemned as a "disgrace".

One of three teenagers, feared to be one their way to Syria after boarding a flight to Turkey on Tuesday, is known to have contacted Ms Mahmood on Twitter.

The message - which was sent on 15 February, two days before the schoolgirls left London said: "Follow me so I can dm (direct message) you back".

"There must be an inquiry as to what exactly the intelligence services are doing with the intelligence they are gathering," Mr Anwar said.

"If the intelligence services have this information, surely they should not just be sharing it with Turkey but they should be sharing it with the families so that they can nip this in the bud.

"There is no point in declaring war in ISIS in Syria but doing very little to stop young people actually getting on the flights and getting across the border into Syria.

"This could happen to any other family across the country," he warned.

He said serious questions also need to be asked about how the three young women, Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, were able to board the flight unimpeded and without their parents.

It has been revealed that all three girls were interviewed by police two months ago after one of their classmates, 15, also travelled to Syria.

According to The Sunday Times two other girls attempted to join her but were apprehended.

Meanwhile the families of the three missing girls have all issued urgent appeals for them to come home.

"You belong at home with us. Syria is a dangerous place and we don't want you to go there," Shamima Begum's older sister Aklima told the newspaper.

"Mum needs you home."

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