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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.
Jan 24, 2023 · On December 22, 2001, Richard Reid, a British Al Qaeda member, tried to blow up a Paris-Miami flight with bombs in his shoes. He was caught by passengers and crew, and sentenced to life in prison.
As Flight 63 was flying over the Atlantic Ocean, Richard Reid, an Islamic fundamentalist from the United Kingdom and self-proclaimed al-Qaeda operative, carried shoes that were packed with two types of explosives. He had been refused permission to board the flight the day before.
See the shoes that Richard Reid, also known as the shoe bomber, tried to detonate on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001. Learn how FBI agents and bomb techs investigated and prosecuted this terrorism case.
Apr 22, 2005 · A British court imposed a 13-year prison sentence on a man who admitted conspiring with shoe-bomber Richard Reid to blow up a United States-bound transatlantic jet in 2001.
May 7, 2024 · Richard Reid is a British Islamist militant who gained notoriety as the so-called Shoe Bomber in 2001 after he attempted—by igniting explosives hidden in the soles of his high-top basketball shoes—to blow up an airplane on which he and some 200 other passengers were traveling.
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Richard Reid, a British-born Muslim, tried to blow up a US flight from Paris to Miami with explosives in his shoes in December 2001. He was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 110 years by a US judge in January 2003, after pleading guilty and lashing out at the American Government.
