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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.
May 7, 2024 · Richard Reid (born August 12, 1973, London, England) 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.
Feb 4, 2015 · The Briton who tried to blow up a US plane in 2001 with explosives in his shoes shows no remorse and maintains his actions were permissible under Islamic law. He wrote to researchers from the Justitia Institute, who released the correspondence today.
Richard Reid, also known as the \"shoe bomber\", is a British al-Qaeda terrorist who tried to blow up a plane in 2001. Learn about his background, arrest, trial, and imprisonment from this web page.
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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.
