12 April 2012
A university student from London admitted trying to get to Afghanistan to join mujahideen terrorists fighting coalition forces.
Mohammed Abushamma, 20, from Islington, north London, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to preparing acts of terrorism between March 17 and April 18, this year.
He was remanded on conditional bail and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed.
Abushamma and co-accused Qasim Abukar, 20, from Tufnell Park, north London, were arrested at Heathrow airport in April as they arrived back in England.
They had taken a plane to Turkey but had voluntarily left after being spoken to by officials from the British and Turkish authorities in Ankara.
They are believed to have applied for visas to go to Afghanistan.
