http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/shoebomber/ en-us Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:19:00 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415265/posts Imagine that there had been a series of three incidents in which members of a [invented for present purposes] fanatical Jewish sect had attempted to bring down airliners from Arab countries. In reporting on the latest attempt and describing the previous ones, do you think the New York Times might have mentioned the religion of the perpetrators? So do I. But with the ledgermain required to describe a spiral staircase without using one's hands, the Gray Lady has managed in its article today to report yesterday's attempt to bring down a NWA airliner, and the earlier attempts by Richard Reid... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415265/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:19:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359874/posts Pittsburgh was treated to an impressive show the week of the recent G20 conference. A nice assortment of military choppers of various types and missions, along with odder aircraft difficult both to identify and explain. Both police and the National Guard were out in force, with downtown nearly sealed off. None of this hardware was used against the "3,000 - 4,000" (more like a few hundred) anarchist demonstrators when they turned their righteous wrath on a dozen Starbucks and a Whole Foods store. No serious confrontation was expected and none occurred. Because all of it - the Guard troops, the... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359874/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:53:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344421/posts Airplane shoe bomber Richard C. Reid no longer faces severe limits on his prison activities or communications after the Obama administration quietly ended years of hard-nosed curbs against the British-born al-Qaeda terrorist. This summer the Justice Department halted six years of measures that kept Reid from associating or praying with fellow jailed Muslim terrorists, and limited his access to the news media and pen pals. bostonherald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344421/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:19:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343977/posts Airplane shoe bomber Richard C. Reid no longer faces severe limits on his prison activities or communications after the Obama administration quietly ended years of hard-nosed curbs against the British-born al-Qaeda terrorist. This summer the Justice Department halted six years of measures that kept Reid from associating or praying with fellow jailed Muslim terrorists, and limited his access to the news media and pen pals. That move has outraged victims of al-Qaeda and security experts. The recommendation to lift the restrictions was made with input from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, which prosecuted Reid in 2002, federal officials said...... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343977/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:42:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2305532/posts Richard Reid, the man who tried to blow up American Airlines flight 93 is housed in the Supermax prison in Colorado. Until this month, he had been subject to security restrictions which prevented his communication with other Al Qaeda members, where ever they are. Not anymore. The Holder Justice Department has decided to relax these security measures against an unrepentant terrorist... (Read the rest at muffledoar.blogspot.com) Muffled Oar http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2305532/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:31:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306460/posts Regular old U.S. criminals should be so lucky as to enjoy the devoted legal representation that has rallied to the sides of Islamist terrorists convicted of plotting the mass murder of Americans ---snip--- Reid sued, went on a hunger strike and was force fed. Last December, the Justice Department asked a judge to dismiss the suit, citing a Muslim radical who had assisted the first WTC attack from behind bars. But the department, now led by Attorney General Eric Holder, has since abandoned that position NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306460/posts#comment Sun, 2 Aug 2009 14:44:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305888/posts The Obama Justice Department has withdrawn the "special administrative measures" imposed at the federal prison in Colorado against "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid, the jihadist who tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001. Special administrative measures (SAMs) are security directives, renewable yearly, issued by the attorney general when "there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications, correspondence or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury" to others." snip ... the list of Reid’s potential fellow congregants at ADX Florence [the supermax Colorado prison] reads like a Who’s Who of al-Qaida’s most dangerous members: Ramzi... NEWSMAX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305888/posts#comment Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:15:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304909/posts ... Why had Attorney General Eric Holder decided not to renew his security measures, kept in place since 2002? ... Reid claimed that SAMs violated his First Amendment right of free speech and free exercise of religion. In a hand-written complaint, he asserted that he was being illegally prevented from performing daily “group prayers in a manner prescribed by my religion.” Yet the list of Reid’s potential fellow congregants at ADX Florence reads like a Who’s Who of al Qaeda’s most dangerous members: Ramzi Yousef and his three co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui;... Wall St. Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304909/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:11:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304508/posts Today, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled 'Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’: The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in,' Debra Burlingame writes: On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., one of those albatrosses, inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities. Eight days earlier [June 9, 2007 pdf file at link], the U.S. Attorney’s office in Denver filed notice in federal court that the Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) which applied to that prisoner -- Richard C. Reid, a.k.a. the “Shoe Bomber” --... 911FamiliesForAmerica.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304508/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:25:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304077/posts Last May at the National Archives, President Barack Obama warned that “more mistakes would occur” if Congress continued to politicize terrorist detention policy and the closure of Guantanamo Bay. “[I]f we refuse to deal with those issues today,” he predicted, “then I guarantee you, they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future.” On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., one of those albatrosses, inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities. Eight days earlier, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Denver filed notice in federal... wsj.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304077/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:09:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356414/posts From Gloucester to Afghanistan: the making of a shoe bomber Saajid Badat this week pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a plane. What drove this quiet football fan to thoughts of terror? Mark Honigsbaum and Vikram Dodd Saturday March 5, 2005 The Guardian He seemed the model British Muslim citizen - a poster boy for integration whose knowledge of the Qu'ran and achievement at grammar school made Gloucester's close-knit Islamic community proud. When in November 2003 anti-terrorist police turned up at the terraced house in the Barton and Tredworth district of the city that Saajid Badat shared with his... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356414/posts#comment Sat, 5 Mar 2005 04:07:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353855/posts  A British-born Muslim admitted yesterday conspiring to blow up a passenger aircraft at the same time as Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, tried to bring down an American Airlines flight.Saajid Badat, 25, who trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey after being linked to an al-Qa'eda plot.   Saajid Badat Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, the head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch, said: "Three years of intensive and painstaking international investigation brought us to the point where Badat had no option but to plead guilty to this horrendous offence."His conviction demonstrates the reality of the threat... Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353855/posts#comment Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:22:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352614/posts A British-born suicide bomber plotted to bring down a packed passenger aircraft over the Atlanttic at the same time that the shoe bomber Richard Reid targeted an American Airlines flight, the Old Bailey heard today. But Saajid Badat changed his mind and dismantled his own shoe bomb, which was designed to evade airport security. Badat, 25, from Gloucester, admitted conspiring to blow up an aircraft between January 1 1999 and November 28, 2003 in a surprise change of plea today. He had been due to stand trial for the offence. Intelligence services believe Badat had been conspiring with Reid, a... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352614/posts#comment Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:11:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196250/posts British shoe bomber Richard Reid is suing US prison authorities over his harsh prison conditions. The Londoner is being helid in a maximum security jail in Colorado for attempting to blow up an American Airlines flight in December 2001. But he has appealed to a judge to be allowed the "same rights and privileges as other inmates" at the prison. Reid is trying to end his isolation and lack of access to Arabic-language religious books. In May, prison authorities told the inmate he had been placed on special administrative measures. These restricted his access to letters, the media, telephone... SkyNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196250/posts#comment Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:11:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195507/posts Shoe Bomber Sues Over Harsh U.S. Prison ConditionsThu Aug 19, 2004 08:39 PM ET DENVER (Reuters) - "Shoe bomber" Richard Reid has sued U.S. prison authorities for imposing harsh conditions including isolation and a lack of access to Arabic language religious books. Reid is serving a life sentence for attempting to use explosives in his shoes to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami three months after the Sept. 11 attacks. Reid, a British citizen, wants a judge to order prison authorities to give him "the same rights and privileges as other inmates held in this prison."... Reuters.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195507/posts#comment Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:04:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195029/posts DENVER — Al Qaeda member and Florence prison inmate Richard Reid has moved his court challenge of federal prison rules to Denver. Reid is serving a life sentence for trying to blow up an airplane with explosives hidden in his shoes in 2001. The Justice Department has imposed restrictions on Reid and other terrorism-related prisoners they consider a threat to national security. In a handwritten lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver last week, Reid wrote he has been kept in isolation in a cell with a window that does not let him see outside, and that his mail... fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195029/posts#comment Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:43:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269402/posts A man jailed in the US for trying to blow up an airliner with explosives hidden in his shoes has gone on hunger strike, court papers have revealed. Briton Richard Reid is said to have been refusing food for several weeks and is being force-fed and hydrated. Reid, 35, is currently taking legal action against prison restrictions which, he says, prevent him from practising his Sunni Muslim faith. He is serving three life sentences at the Supermax prison in Colorado. bbc. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269402/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:41:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268529/posts Convicted British ‘shoe-bomber’ terrorist Richard Reid, who was found guilty in 2003 of trying to blow up a transatlantic commercial flight, has been refusing food for several weeks and is being force fed by authorities in a US prison. Reid is currently serving a life sentence in the notorious Supermax prison in Denver, America’s highest-security federal lockup, after he was convicted of trying to ignite two bombs in his shoes while on board a Paris-to-Miami flight on American Airlines. He was subdued by passengers before he could detonate the explosives. Reid, 35, has refused 59 meals since March at the... Times Online (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268529/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:55:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019236/posts Two people have been taken into custody on suspicions of preparing acts of sabotage at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant on Wednesday morning, according to police and plant operators, reports the Kvällsposten newspaper. A Swedish contractor was arrested on Wednesday when traces of highly explosive material were found on him as he was about to enter a nuclear power plant in southern Sweden, police and the plant said. "At 8am we received a call from the nuclear plant at Oskarshamn. They told us one worker was stopped in the control. He had explosive material in his bags," Sven-Erik Karlsson of the... The Local http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019236/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 17:35:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874431/posts LONDON, July 31 (UPI) -- Letters from convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid from a super-max prison in the United States include lectures to his father about Islam and dreams of freedom. The Mirror, a British newspaper, reported that it had an exclusive look at Reid's letters to his father, Robin Reid, a Jamaican-born recovering drug addict living in a London homeless shelter. Reid berates his father for a letter telling him that his aunt, Madeleine, who brought Reid up while Robin Reid was in prison, had died and was "in a better place." "What you wrote about Aunt Lynn being... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874431/posts#comment Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:50:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829115/posts Excerpt - 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. ~ snip ~ Link to article and video... News of the World (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829115/posts#comment Sun, 6 May 2007 08:26:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1033133/posts A terror suspect arrested last week has been charged with plotting a bomb attack with al Qaeda "shoe bomber" Richard Reid. Sajid Badat, 24, of Gloucester, was also charged with possessing explosives with the intent to endanger life under the Terrorism Act 2000. Badat, who was arrested on Thursday by Gloucest More follows... Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1033133/posts#comment Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:00:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747650/posts At six feet four inches tall, Richard Reid makes a forbidding figure, even from behind the iron grates, steel doors and automated locks that separate him from his prison guards in this place they call Terrorist Central. Richard Reed after his arrest (Richard Reid) Held in darkness and paranoiaHunched on a stool that is moulded to the floor of his broom-cupboard-sized cell, he turns the pages of the newspaper spread out on the concrete desk before him, soaking up stories and pictures from an outside world that he will never see again. "Do you need anything today?" a prison guard... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747650/posts#comment Sun, 3 Dec 2006 01:19:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730525/posts More than 70 Muslim workers at France's main airport have been stripped of the security clearance for allegedly posing a risk to passengers, officials say.The staff at Charles de Gaulle airport, including baggage handlers, are said to have visited terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. One man is thought to have been a friend of Richard Reid, the so-called British shoe bomber. Richard Reid tried to blow up a flight from Paris to the US in 2001. Discrimination lawsuitsEarlier this year officials at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, conducted a security review of staff and questioned dozens... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730525/posts#comment Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:37:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726347/posts Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it? Did you know his trial is over? Did you know he was sentenced? Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV or Radio? Didn't think so. Everyone should hear what the judge had to say. Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court. Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say. His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his "allegiance to Osama bin Laden,... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726347/posts#comment Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:33:37 GMT