Born: 2001;

Place of Birth: United Kingdom;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: British;

General Info:
Wissam Ziad is a teenager who shared extremist Islamic State material faces a jail sentence after admitting a series of terrorism offences.

He pleaded guilty to six counts of disseminating terrorist publications, during a hearing at Manchester Crown Court.

Ziad also admitted encouraging terrorism by publishing a video and supporting extremist militant group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (also known as Supporters of Jerusalem).

Ziad (aged 19 when he was charged by police) is expected to be sentenced by the end of the year.

Some of the extremist material he admitted sharing included a video depicting Islamic State terrorists and a Islamic State commander making a speech, as well as footage ‘depicting disabled Islamic State terrorists taking part in combat’.

He also pleaded guilty to posting a link to a book titled ‘this is the promise of Allah’, as well as publications named ‘Dabiq to Rome’, ‘clarifying matters of methodology’ and ‘the din of Islam’.

In total he admitted six counts of disseminating terrorist publications, one count of encouraging terrorism and one of supporting a proscribed organisation, offences under the Terrorism Act.