Pat Dollard | Young Americans

A secret bugging device at the home of an Islamic fanatic convicted of a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier recorded his attempts to teach his five-year-old son how to perform a beheading, it has been revealed.

Parviz Khan was jailed for life today for his involvement in the plot.

In mitigation, Michael Wolkind QC, defending Khan, told the court that his client’s plot had been a “mixture of fanaticism and fantasy”.

“His plan might have changed had British foreign policy changed,” he said. “He might have withdrawn if the British troops were withdrawn.”

Khan boasted to friends that he was waging financial war on the West while “bleeding” a monthly total of £1,669 in benefits from the British taxpayer.

It also emerged last week, in proceedings which could not be reported until today, that Khan wanted to burn the soldier’s body and parade his head on a stick.

“This is what they will call you when you terrorise them, they will go crazy,” he says in the recording. “They will start searching… London, Birmingham, Newcastle, where are these people?”

His lawyer insisted, however, that Khan would have abandoned the plot if Britain had changed its foreign policy and withdrawn its troops from the Middle East.

Khan was convicted last month of plotting to snatch a British Muslim soldier from the streets and film him being beheaded “like a pig” in a lock-up garage.

Basiru Gassama, 30, of Radstock Avenue, Hodge Hill, Birmingham, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to a failure to disclose information about the plot.

He was jailed today for two years and will be deported immediately.

Opening the case against Khan last week, prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt QC revealed Khan was recorded by a listening device at his home as he taught his five-year-old son how to carry out a beheading.

In one passage, co-defendant Hamid Elasmar asks a child: “How do you cut their neck?”

Khan then prompts the youngster, saying: “How do you cut them with a knife? Show me.”

The bug cannot record whether the child gives an inaudible demonstration, but Khan says: “Like this. Good.”

The recording, made in November 2006, was not the first to reveal how Khan wanted to pass down his extremist views to his three children.

In a conversation with his five-year-old son on May 23, 2006, an overbearing Khan asks him to recite from the Koran, telling him he would hit him with a stick if he made a mistake.

Grabbing the child’s toy car off him, he asks the little boy: “Who do you love?”.

“I love Sheikh Osama Bin Laden,” the child replies.

Khan asks his son if he loves anyone else. The boy replies (extreme Muslim cleric) “Sheikh Abu Hamza” and (Islamic militant) “Sheikh Abdullah Rehman”.

Then Khan asks the youngster: “Who do you kill?”

The child replies: “America kill.”

Asked who else, the boy responds “Bush I kill” and “Blair kill”.

Prompted by his father, the five-year-old says he also wants to kill “Kuffar” (an abusive term for a non-Muslim), “Hindu”, “Sheedi” (a term for a black man), “Pathan” (a member of an Indian tribe) and “Sharab” (alcohol).

(Daily Mail)