On the home video, a young father, on his way to a war where he
knows he will die, bounces his baby daughter on his knee, showers
her with kisses and laments that he will never see her grow up.
"Sweetheart, not long to go now. And I'm going to really, really
miss you a lot," the father says. "I'm thinking about it already.
Look, I absolutely love you to bits and you have been the happiest
thing in my life."
The war Mohammed Sidique Khan was referring to was an Islamist
jihad against the West, a British prosecutor said Thursday. And
eight months later, on July 7, 2005, Khan and three other suicide
bombers killed themselves and 52 train and bus passengers in
downtown London, wounding more than ...