A late Mother's Day message, from a videotape played in Brooklyn Federal Court at the trial of Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani national charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station in New York City.

A late Mother's Day message, from a videotape played in Brooklyn Federal Court at the trial of Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani national charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station in New York City. Mr. Siraj told Osama El-Dawoody, a police informant, that he was willing to guide a murderer to the station and show him where to put his bombs, but not to place them himself. He also said he would have to clear it with his mother. "I have to, you know, ask my mom's permission." "Ask your mother what?" the astonished informant said. It won't fly on a greeting card in this country, but perhaps there would be a market for it in the Muslim world. You gave me life / I give others death; / I ask your permission / With my last breath. Get the Urdu translators working on it.