American forces pushed through the centre of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah today, fighting bands of guerrillas in the streets and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major offensive to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic militants.

THE camera shows the suicide bomber warmly embracing a group of masked men. There are kisses on the cheek and a shot of him in the cab of a truck — his fingers resting on what appears to be a detonator.

A reporter with Time Magazine has received video footage of a suicide bomber chronicling his final hours right up to his deadly mission.