The following are excerpts from a videotaped message from suicide bomber Mohammed Sadiq, who participated in the London bombings. Al-Jazeera TV aired this message on September 1, 2005
"The Martyr Mohammed Sadiq,
one of the knights of the blessed raids on London"
Sadiq: Praise be to Allah, blessings
and prayers upon His Prophet.
I'm going to keep this
short and to the point
because it's all been said before
by far more eloquent people than me,
and our words have
no impact upon you,
therefore I'm going to talk to you
in a language that you understand.
Our words are dead until we
give them life with our blood.
I'm sure by now the media has
painted a suitable picture of me.
This predictable propaganda machine
naturally will try to put a spin on things
to suit the government and
to scare the masses into conforming
to their power and
worth-obsessed agendas.
I, and thousands like me, have forsaken
everything for what we believe.
Our driving motivation doesn't
come from tangible commodities
that this world has to offer.
Our religion is Islam – obedience
to the one true God, Allah,
and following in the footsteps
of the final Prophet and Messenger,
Muhammad, Allah's blessings
and prayers upon him.
This is how our ethical
stances are dictated.
Your democratically
elected governments
continuously perpetuate atrocities
against my people all over the world,
and your support of them
makes you directly responsible,
just as I am directly responsible for protecting
and avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters.
Until we feel security,
you will be our targets,
and until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment, and torture of my people
we will not stop this fight.
We are at war,
and I am a soldier.
Now you too will taste
the reality of this situation.
I myself, I make du'ah to Allah,
to raise me amongst those whom I love,
like the Prophets, the Messengers,
and the martyrs,
and today's heroes, like our
beloved Sheik Osama bin Laden,
Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri,
and Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi,
and all the other brothers and sisters
that are fighting in Allah's cause.
With this I leave you
to make up your own minds,
and ask you to make
du'ah to Allah Almighty
to accept the work
from me and my brothers
and enter us into
the gardens of Paradise.