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A judge sentenced him to life in federal prison. This is the pair of shoes Reid—also known as the “shoe bomber”—tried to detonate. FBI bomb techs determined that the shoes contained about...
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...
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...
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.
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 30, 2003 · Passengers and crew members overpowered Reid, using seat belts and their own belts to strap him to his seat, after he futilely tried to light a fuse protruding from one of his ankle-high hiking...
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Jun 7, 2002 · The flight crew of American Airlines Flight 63 feared accused shoe bomber Richard Reid was traveling with three accomplices when he allegedly tried to blow up the airplane.
