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.