While Khan's path into terrorism has been blamed on radical mosques and a lack of integration into British society, the BBC investigation reveals that neither of these appeared to be factors in his radicalisation.
BBC reporter Nasreen Suleaman has uncovered close friends who say that his radicalisation happened in backrooms in Yorkshire, rather than in religious institutions or foreign trips.
In the documentary "Khalid", a former member of Khan's inner circle, says that Khan became part of a tight-knit group of young, radicalised Muslim men from Dewsbury, Leeds and Huddersfield.
Watch how long that word "terrorism" stays in the report. It will be stealth edited out very shortly.
And as for the foreign trips not being part of his radicalisation...
Khalid tells the BBC that Khan's well-documented final trip to Pakistan, and suspected visits to Afghanistan in the year before the bombing, were to link up with Jihadi fighters.
And this is interesting:
The men used to spend time paintballing, trips that would take place immediately after watching extremely violent videos depicting Muslim suffering around the world.
Paintballing and terrorists - sound familiar? It should.
March 2004
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Three American Muslims accused of using paintball games to train for holy war were found guilty of conspiracy charges on Thursday.
Prosecutors said the three were part of a "Virginia jihad network" that underwent paramilitary training in 2000 and 2001 in hopes of joining up with the Taliban (search). After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the group allegedly focused efforts on defending the former Afghan regime.
Now, back to what's missing from this report and the earlier BBC report. What's missing from both is one word - Iraq. Not once, that I've found, has Khan used the word Iraq. Only the media have made that connection.
But for some strange reason the media can't or won't tell us what the motivation was for Muslim terrorists to fly a plane into Parliament on 9/11. In fact, the media have been so silent on the plot that most are unaware it even happened.
BOMBAY (AFX) - An Indian court has jailed a man for plotting to crash passenger jets into the House of Commons and the Tower Bridge in London on Sept 11, 2001, Agence France-Presse reported.
The court here handed down a seven-year prison term to Mohammed Afroze, who had also confessed to plotting with a group of Al-Qaeda operatives to attack Melbourne's Rialto Towers and the Indian parliament in 2001.
Afroze told the police in Bombay after fleeing from Britain to India four years ago that he and seven Al-Qaeda terror cell operatives planned to hijack the passenger jets at Heathrow and fly them into the two London landmarks.
Remember, on 9/11 the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq had not happened yet, Bush had only been in office a few months and Blair and Bush hadn't met yet. So none of those could have been the motivation.
And I hope the police are still investigating the case because...
"Mohammad Sidique Khan was there but someone else was introducing the videos".
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