Mohammed Hamid styled himself "Osama bin London." The 50-year-old was convicted in London yesterday of grooming gangs of young recruits to kill nonbelievers. Assisted by Attila Ahmet, who at the beginning of the trial pleaded guilty to soliciting murder, Hamid sought to radicalize Britons and send them on terror campaigns in Afghanistan and East Africa. Here's a partial transcript of a conversation between Hamid and Ahmet in July 2006. They've been talking about Ahmet's desire to become a "martyr" and about the July 7, 2005, attacks on the London transport system that killed 52 people and the four suicide bombers:

Hamid: You know what happened on the Tubes, right, how many altogether, four people shaheed [martyred]. Allah wa Allah I have to say this is as well, but four people got shaheed, right, how many people did they take out?
Ahmet: Fifty-two.
Hamid: Fifty-two, that’s not even a breakfast for me.
Ahmet: I know it’s not.
Hamid: That’s not even a breakfast for me, for me in this country, do you understand me?
Ahmet: Hmm.
Hamid: . . . Remember this, people, that never get caught, right, don’t let your ego go forward, let your intelligence go forward for the sake of Allah, use your hikma [wisdom] and be effective, see how many gets it, see how many you can take at the same time.