They Don't Want What We Have

From The London Times:

"FOUR friends from northern England have changed the face of terrorism by carrying out the suicide bombings that brought carnage to London last week.

It emerged last night that, for the first time in Western Europe, suicide bombers have been recruited for attacks. Security forces are coming to terms with the realisation that young Britons are prepared to die for their militant cause.

The man who planted the bomb at Edgware Road was named last night as Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, the married father of an eight-month-old baby, who is believed to have come from the Leeds area.

Two other terrorists were Hasib Hussain, 19, who bombed the bus in Tavistock Square, of Colenso Mount, Leeds, and Shehzad Tanweer, 22, the Aldgate bomber, who lived at Colwyn Road, Leeds.

Police are still trying to identify the fourth, whose remains are believed to be in the bombed Tube train carriage on the Piccadilly Line. "

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One was studious, one a tearaway, but nobody dreamt they were bombers.

IF EVER there were model immigrants, they were the Tanweers. The close-knit family, originally from Pakistan, had made a good life in Britain, running their fish and chip shop and living in a large detached house in the Beeston area of Leeds, with two Mercedes cars parked outside.

They were good Muslims, respected in a local multi-ethnic community of whites, Africans, East Europeans, Pakistanis and Bengalis. But then Shehzad, one of their four children, went missing last week from the family home in Colwyn Road. Police believe that he was not only a victim of last Thursday’s London bombings, but one of the perpetrators.

Across the city in Holbeck, Mahmood and Maniza Hussain, also originally from Pakistan, heard only the same deathly silence from their son Hasib, 19. They, too, face the likelihood that another loving family has spawned a suicide bomber.

The two sons were friends who had sprung from similar backgrounds. Yet they were different characters, one intelligent, studious and a keen cricketer, the other a wild teenager who suddenly turned to an intense religious faith. Shehzad had a brother and two sisters, children of the proprietor of South Leeds Fisheries, a familiar and respected figure in the Beeston community. The fish shop was open yesterday but there was no sign of the owner.

Mohamed Ansaar Riaz, 19, and Azzy Mohamed, 21, said their friend Shehzad was “the best lad you could ever meet”. They described how he had grown up in Beeston, studied sports science subjects at university and been a competent all-rounder for a local Asian cricket team. He last played only a fortnight ago. “He was a sweet guy who gets on with everyone,” Mr Riaz said. "