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Jan 24, 2023 · On December 22, 2001, three months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Richard Reid, 28, a British citizen and Al Qaeda member, attempts to detonate homemade bombs hidden in his shoes while...
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This is the pair of shoes Richard Reid—also known as the shoe bomber—tried to detonate. (Click image to view high-res.) On December 22, 2001—just months after the 9/11 attacks—Richard...
Jan 31, 2003 · Richard C. Reid, who said he was a member of Al Qaeda and pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives concealed in his shoes, was sentenced today to life in prison.
Feb 25, 2002 · But the FBI laboratory experts who dissected Richard Reid’s black suede sneakers were horrified by what they found in the soles: bombs that were, as one agent says, “the first of their kind and...
Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the Shoe Bomber, is the perpetrator of the failed shoe bombing attempt on a transatlantic flight in 2001. Born to a father who was a career criminal, Reid converted to Islam as a young man in prison after years as a petty criminal.
Oct 5, 2002 · Admitting membership in Al Qaeda, Richard C. Reid pleaded guilty today to charges of trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight in December with explosives hidden in his shoes.
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On December 22, 2001, al-Qaeda sympathizer Richard Reid attempted the mid-flight destruction of an American Airlines aircraft bound from Paris to Miami flight with 197 people on board. Reid attempted to destroy the flight with plastic explosives concealed in his shoes that were capable of blowing a hole in the plane's pressurized fuselage.
