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The London bombings: one year on

A year of thinking lazily

Thursday, 29th June 2006

On 14 July 2005 the Times published a photograph of a thoughtful young man at work in a Yorkshire classroom. Mohammad Sidique Khan was pictured, purse-lipped and neatly bearded, in the school where he was employed as a teaching mentor. Khan’s CV was one of which any parent might be proud. The son of a foundry worker who had emigrated from Pakistan, Khan was born in Leeds, where he succeeded at school and went on to univer-sity. Happily married, and a regular worshipper at his local mosque, Khan’s work seemed designed to allow others to enjoy the British dream. His professional life was dedicated to helping the children of recent immigrants make the most of the opportunities open to them in the United Kingdom.

That life ended, however, at 8.50 a.m. on 7 July 2005, when Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated an explosive device on the Circle Line train heading west out of Edgware Road station. Khan and three others — Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Husain and Jermaine Lindsay — blew themselves up that morning in the first successful suicide bombing attack in the British Isles; 52 people were killed and more than 700 injured.

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