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Cautious U.S. investigators say they have no evidence would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid is a well-trained al-Qaeda operative rather than just a flaky loner with a fondness for radical Islamic sayings. French Justice officials, however, are beginning to think differently. "There's simply no way this kind of loser could have planned and carried this out on his own," an official told TIME last week, referring to Reid's failed attempt to ignite explosives in his sneakers while flying from Paris to Miami last month. Reid, 28, reportedly told the FBI he found the explosives he used...
There is no dome, no minaret, nothing but a small sign to indicate that this rundown Victorian house in the multiethnic south London neighborhood of Brixton is a mosque. But the fact that would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...
...sniffing dogs, searches by hand, tests for explosives, or at the very least, matched with a passenger on board the plane. And while the first three options provide a fairly good screen against terrorists, the last one is not exactly foolproof - it's hardly a deterrent for a suicide bomber to have his own bomb-toting luggage on the plane. It is also the measure most likely to be employed at the majority of airports, at least...
...Sayyaf was founded in 1991 by Abdurajak Janjalani, who returned to his native Basilian after a spell in Afghanistan, where he'd gone to join the anti-Soviet jihad. Janjalani's militant group was funded by front organizations linked with al Qaeda, and had hosted 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef during his stay in the Philippines. Yousef, who had trained with Janjalani in a camp at Khost, hoped to use Abu Sayyaf operatives to attack U.S. airliners in the Philippines. The Filipino organization's longstanding affection for the Pakistani terrorist is reflected in the fact that they typically...
There is no dome, no minaret, nothing but a small sign to indicate that this rundown Victorian house in the multiethnic south London neighborhood of Brixton is a mosque. But the fact that would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...