A conversation somewhere in Birmingham England:
NASEER: "No no, you know what I was thinking Irfan? There's no point getting [the friend] involved. Look, imagine down the line. We already have six at the moment, yeah. Imagine [another man] joins us then [third man], then eight. How you gonna make stuff for eight [people]? You can't, man."
KHALID: "Yeah, the smaller the better, remember what they said."
The next day the men talk about using timers, rather than recruits.
NASEER: "Other way is, innit, alarm clock. One timed explosion you know, say for example you set the alarm for one hour. After one hour it's gonna blow."
As the conversation continues, Ashik Ali asks Naseer about the effects of a 1kg timed bomb:
NASEER: "1kg will make kuffars' [disbelievers'] pishab [urine] come out. Probably die of heart attack because of the noise it makes. You put this on Tennyson Road and you put it in the middle... both ways, people at both ends would be harmed."
ALI: "Would anyone be killed?"
NASEER: "Look this is Tennyson Road, Masjid [mosque] over there, yeah. You put the thing right in the middle and people are there and standing there and there and there... you probably kill about five people there ,10 people there, you probably kill about 25 people with 1kg. And the Masjid would probably be shattered as well."
ALI: "How we gonna carry, take it?"
NASEER: "In a rucksack. The aim is 10 [kg]. Twenty is too much. You know I'll struggle carrying it man. Seven or eight of them in different places with timers on.. for, like, the same time. Probably to go boom, boom, boom everywhere."
Later:
NASEER: "This was a funny day yeah, what happened, is this happens, is an Arab teacher, there's one Pakistani guy, AQ guy..."
KHALID: "These guys got balls man."
NASEER: "We were just about to, about to set it off [test an explosive] innit and the drones come on top of us."
[KHALID MAKES THE NOISE OF A DRONE]
NASEER: "Everyone looked at each other. They go... you know what, split yeah. So... they go lay underneath the tree and its about 45 degrees celsius, yeah. They made us lie underneath the tree for four and a half hours without moving bro. Underneath the tree, the drone can't detect you, innit. So I'm lying underneath the tree innit, and the drones are right about me bro, and its going [makes a drone sound] and I'm thinking any minute it's going to fire a missile."
KHALID: "I just went to sleep. It's a nasty situation to be in, man."
Another day:
KHALID: "Is there any graveyards apart from Handsworth round here? For Muslims?"
ALI: "Not hardly enough."
NASEER: "Why? You wanna go there?"
KHALID: "Nah, I'm just thinking... most likely it'll be Handsworth, if there's a body left. The erm... [Laughter]. It's funny innit?"
NASEER: "One thing, one thing, remember, once that once you done, it doesn't matter where you get buried innit."
One Weeka Later:
NASEER: "I was not shouting."
KHALID: "But I was a bit harsh."
NASEER: "Like one part we're: 'You people think that by making these cartoons of the prophet... only thing you will achieve is suicide bombers on your streets, spilling so much blood that you will remember. You'll have nightmares for the rest of your miserable lives'."
KHALID: "We left message to our family as well."
NASEER: "Don't worry about me, I'm alive. Martyrs are alive, yeah."
KHALID: "You know something... this is revenge for everything, what we're doing is another 9/11."
Discussing whether to renew road tax on their car:
NASEER: "Taxed till June innit Ashik?"
ALI: "Yeah, no."
NASEER: "Did you check it?"
ALI: "MOT is still aah, July, June, July."
KHALID: "Yeah we're dead by then… we're probably out of here by next June, brother."