Posted on 05/06/2007 1:26:52 AM PDT by HAL9000
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An FBI video has revealed in chilling detail how a British terrorist planned to blow a passenger jet out of the sky.The footage obtained by the News of the World from security sources show the shoe-bomb blast tearing a hole through the metal fuselage as if it were tin foil.
It proves that if the attack by Brit Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in 2001 had succeeded, all 197 on board would have died.
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Link to article and video...
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The son of an English mother and Jamaican father, so-called "shoe bomber" Richard Reid was born in 1973 in the London suburb of Bromley.
I was not there to give him the love and affection he should have got
Richard Reid's father
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The young Reid is said to have attended Thomas Tallis secondary school in Blackheath, south-east London, from 1984 to 1989.
His father, Robin, told BBC News he had been in prison for most of Richard's childhood.
"I was not there to give him the love and affection he should have got," he said.
His son fell into a life of petty crime and in the mid-1990s was jailed for a string of muggings, for which he served sentences in a number of prisons, including Feltham young offenders' institution in west London.
It was while at Feltham that Reid is said to have converted to Islam.
Worship
After his release, he followed the path taken by many other Muslim prisoners, to Brixton Mosque, in south London.
The place of worship has a reputation for attracting converts and helping ex-offenders re-adjust to life in the outside world.
But at some point Reid began to get involved with extremist elements, says the chairman of Brixton Mosque, Abdul Haqq Baker.
Reid was "tempted away" by "individuals who set up a few years ago away from the mosque", Mr Baker says.
"Their teachings were a lot more militant."
He says extremists worked on "weak characters" and believes Reid was "very, very impressionable".
Reid attended external classes and started to question the peaceful philosophy of his teachers.
Change in appearance
His appearance also changed, says Mr Baker. He went from wearing western clothes to the traditional Islamic thobe - a loose, long-sleeved, ankle-length garment - with a khaki combat jacket on top.
Mr Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan origin, also attended the Brixton Mosque during the 1990s but was expelled for his extreme views and his attempts to impose them on the younger, more easily influenced members.
Towards the end of 1998, Reid ceased worshipping at the mosque and is thought to have moved to Pakistan.
He reportedly sent several letters written in Arabic to friends in London. His mother, Lesley Hughes, who is separated from Reid's father, also believed he was in Pakistan.
But mother and son eventually lost contact and in summer 2001 Ms Hughes telephoned Brixton Mosque seeking news.
About the same time, Reid is believed to have embarked on an extensive travel programme, which saw him visit seven countries including some of the world's so-called "terror capitals".
Gone missing
He is thought to have spent time in Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Pakistan, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and possibly Afghanistan.
He was overpowered by passengers and crew on the flight after trying to set light to a fuse connected to the explosives.
It has also been reported that a computer allegedly used by al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan contained files with details of a "scouting" trip Reid is believed to have carried out to identify targets to attack.
The computer files describe an operative known as Brother Abdul Ra'uff who travelled to the same countries Reid is believed to have spent time in.
Like Reid, the operative travelled on a British passport and was closely questioned by Israeli security.
As a result of the files the United States Government laid new charges against Mr Reid, including attempted murder.
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Well, that FBI video is impressive. I really didn’t know or realize that the explosion would be that big. It’s actually *big* — quite big. And it doesn’t take that much to bring down a plane. This “shoe bomb” looks like it is about 100 times more than it would take at a minimum to take down a plane.
That’s another video I’ve grabbed and is going to be on my iPod... :-)
Who is Richard Reid?
Reid looks like the Muslim version of white trash. Wonder if he owns a pit.
GOOD LORD, that’s a big explosion! I had no idea it would be that big!
“Reid looks like the Muslim version of white trash.”
Just what is the absolute definition of “white trash”?
Not your personal choice, but the actual definition that we can all understand.
My personal definition includes people that use racist terms like “white trash”
These thugs are converting in/after prison. This is not an isolated phenomenon, and has been noticed world-over. Prisons should be better monitored for Islamic activity, IMO.
I don’t understand why he’s still being allowed to eat, sleep, wake, sleep, breath ... a dog with rabies is put down to protect the citizens.
As far as the video goes it looks like the first portion of the video is an actual shoe bomb going off. The second portion of the video on the aircraft looks like tests from years ago. The explosive force just has a little too much punch when compared to the shoe being detonated at the beginning of the video.
Either way I would not want to be sitting near a dirt bag with Jihadi athletic shoes on!
According to the article, the explosive was modeled after Reid's device, and the cabin of the aircraft is pressurized. My impression is that the pressurization acts to intensify the force of the explosion.
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I’ll add some speculation on the cabin pressurization - perhaps it was increased to simulate the pressure difference that would actually occur in-flight, since it isn’t practical to conduct this sort of test at high altitude.
There is no technological solution to this; the solution has to arise from hardened attitudes. When somebody does one of these suicide attacks, the world needs to go after his body, and his family. Whatever is left of his body needs to be publically ground up with the body of a pig, and every member of his immediate family needs to be killed and THEIR bodies ground up with pigs. And then a pig with his name tatooed on it should be dropped straight into that big green colosseum in Mecca from 30,000 feet so the whole slammite world could watch it splatter there and KNOW who has caused that to happen.
What the video doesn't show is how this terrorist attack would have somehow been blamed on something mechanical ... anything but a terrorist attack.
That theory was busted on MythBusters if memory serves..
Oh, swell. Now the terrorists know just how successful they’d be if they deployed another Richard Reid.
There’s only one problem calling this moose limb “white trash”. He’s not white. He is the result of a black daddy and possibly white mama. A half breed...
I didn't see the show, but apparently Episode 10 debunked a myth about explosive decompression caused by a bullet fired through the window of an aircraft...
Did they consider the potential effects of a bomb?
I'm also reminded of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 in 1988, where one crew member was lost due to decompression -
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