BOMBER Mohammed Sidique Khan says a “final goodbye” to his baby girl in a
martyrdom video, telling her: “Learn to fight — fight is good.”
The chilling film, shot by his wife Hasina Patel, was shown to victims’
relatives at the 7/7 inquest yesterday.
In it, the ringleader tells gurgling six-month-old Maryam: “My little
sweetheart, I love you lots and lots.
“Remember me, I’ve not got long to go now, look after your mummy and keep
strong imam [faith].”
His wife adds: “And be happy.”
Making boxing moves, Sidique Khan adds “Yes, be very, very happy. And learn to
fight — fight is good.”
He adds: “I just so much wanted to be with you, but I have to do this thing
for our future and it will be for the best in the long run.”
Khan — 30 when he killed six people and himself at Edgware Road tube — made
the film at his Leeds home in November 2004 before flying to Pakistan where
he planned to die in a holy war.
His plan changed and he returned to plot the London transport outrages on July
7, 2005, say investigators.
The secret girlfriend of one of his fellow bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, sobbed as
she told the inquest how she thought he “loved” her and they had “a future”
together.
The woman — ‘witness A’ — said six days before the bombings they spent the
night in a hotel.
She said: “We were close but not intimate. We were talking about our feelings
for each other.”
He told her trips he was making to Scotland and Wales were for voluntary work
when, in fact, he used them to train for the attack, the inquest was told.
Tanweer, 22, killed seven on the Circle Line tube near Aldgate.
The inquest into the 52 deaths continues at London High Court.