Calgary man pleads guilty to terrorism count after posts on TikTok, Snapchat – Rossland News

Hussein knowingly facilitated terrorist activity by posting an Islamic State group recruitment: Documents A man has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge after admitting he shared recruitment videos for the Islamic State group on TikTok, wrote out instructions on how to make a bomb and posted on Snapchat that his mission would begin during Pride month. Zakarya Rida Hussein, 20, was charged in June with two counts of facilitating terrorist activity and two counts of participating in or contributing to an activity of a terrorist group. Hussein appeared Friday via video in the Alberta Court of Justice in Calgary. Some of his family members were in the courtroom. His lawyer, Alain Hepner, entered Hussein’s plea to one count of facilitating terrorist activity. “The plea is guilty,” Hepner told Justice Harry Van Harten. An agreed statement of facts, which was read into court by federal Crown prosecutor Kent Brown, said Hussein was arrested at his home by the RCMP Integrated National Security Enforcement Team with assistance from the Calgary Police Service on June 15. It says a search warrant on his home and vehicle found a notebook with the step-by-step instructions for making an improvised explosive device, an Islamic State group
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