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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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On December 22, 2001—just months after the 9/11 attacks—Richard Reid boarded American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with homemade bombs hidden in his shoes. During the flight, Reid tried to detonate his shoes, but he struggled to light the fuse.
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Sep 22, 2021 · The FBI's December Artifact of the Month is the pair of shoes Reid—also known as the "shoe bomber"—tried to detonate. FBI bomb techs determined that the shoes contained about 10 ounces of explosive material. During a preliminary hearing, an FBI agent revealed how dangerous the homemade bomb was.
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...
Reid was tied up with belts and headphone cords, and the plane landed in Boston under escort from fighter jets. Authorities later said that the shoes contained powerful plastic explosives which...
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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.
