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Two young British men from Birmingham, who travelled to Syria to join jihadist group alongside rebel fighters and al Qaida-militants, have both pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court to terrorist acts.
Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, both 22, have admitted preparing to carry out terrorist acts.
They had travelled to war-torn Syria to take part in its civil war last May after contacting Islamic extremists.
One of the youngsters, Yusuf Sarwar had lied to his parents by forging a flyer of travelling to Turkey on a trip with Birmingham City University but left a handwritten note behind in which he told of fleeing to Syria as he planned to “do jihad” and die as a martyr by joining a terrorist group called Kataib al Muhajireen (KaM) – later renamed Kateeba al-Kawthar.
The letter also contained cash to pay off his debts and instructions to end his mobile phone contract.
Afterwards, Sarwar’s family reported him missing to police in May last year.
They spent eight months in Syria and were arrested by West Midlands Police’s counter-terrorism unit at Heathrow Airport on their return in January after their parents pressed them hard to come back.
Police believe Ahmed and Sarwar fought with the al-Nusra Front, which is a jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
A trial is due to begin on Tuesday was abandoned after each of them admitted one count of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorism acts, contrary to section five of the Terrorism Act at court in London.
A date for sentencing is likely to be announced in a few coming weeks.
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