British man pleaded guilty for joining ISIS in Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – A British man pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, travelling to Syria to join Islamic State (ISIS) between 2014 and 2017, and receiving training in the use of firearms.
Shabazz Suliman, 27, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, a town northwest London, was 19 when he disappeared while he was on a family holiday trip to Turkey in 2014.
He was arrested at Heathrow Airport in 2021 and charged with terror offences, which he denied at time.
He was scheduled to face trial on May 15, but on April 14 he pleaded guilty to preparing terrorist acts by traveling from the UK to Turkey to join ISIS in Syria in August 2014.
During the investigation, evidence was revealed of messages between the accused and his friends and family, statements he made to the media and his posts on social media about his “extremist activity and mentality”.
In Syria, he assumed the name ‘Abu Shamil al-Britani’ and celebrated the Charlie Hebdo killings in messages in early 2015, warning that “there’s so many brothers just waiting for the order to do attacks on the West”.
On 7 January 2015, two French Muslim terrorists and brothers forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, as they were armed with rifles and other weapons. The attack murdered 12 people and injured 11 others.