Atta's father

My, this is certainly a big change in attitude. 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta's father in 2001:

The father in Cairo, Egypt of Mohammed Atta dismissed as a “farce” and a “forgery” a videotape released Thursday in which Osama bin Laden calls his son the leader of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers.

The father, Mohamed al-Amir al-Sayed Awad Atta, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that he had not seen the tape, but nonetheless declared it a “farce.” “All this is a forgery, a fabrication!”

“The whole world has been saying this name (Mohammed Atta),” the father said. “Where did bin Laden get the name from? Bin Laden got it from America.”

And now in 2005:

Egyptian Mohamed el-Amir, whose son Mohamed Atta commandeered the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York, said there was a double standard in the way the world viewed the victims in London and victims in the Islamic world.

El-Amir said the attacks in the US and the July 7 attacks in Britain were the beginning of what would be a 50-year religious war, in which there would be many more fighters like his son. Speaking to a CNN producer in his apartment in the upper-middle-class Cairo suburb of Giza, he declared that terror cells around the world were a "nuclear bomb that has now been activated and is ticking".

Cursing in Arabic, el-Amir also denounced Arab leaders and Muslims who condemned the London attacks as being traitors and non-Muslims.

He passionately vowed that he would do anything within his power to encourage more attacks.