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...evidence is mounting that would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid, once thought to have acted alone, actually had the support of an Islamist terror network. French authorities now believe the network included a Parisian cell that has so far eluded detection. Reid tried to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami last December with explosives in his shoes. French justice officials tell TIME that Reid, 28, who trained in al-Qaeda camps, repeatedly contacted fellow extremists while in Paris in the weeks before his planned attack. Reid told authorities he bought the explosives in the Netherlands...
Then a young woman steps up to the microphone. With her black hijab she could be from almost anywhere in the Muslim world, but her accent is unmistakable - it's pure northern Parisian: "It's urgent for Muslims today to do everything they can to make the truth about their religion understood." The crowd bursts into thunderous applause...
...know why people don’t like the French? They’re jealous,” asserted former Parisian Christina Lewis, delusionally...
...super model, Christina S.N. Lewis fills a room with presence. When she is agitated, she never yells or shouts. Rather, her head snaps up, her eyes glow with a level-headed intelligence and she states her beliefs clearly, knowing that she is right. Always. Her upbringing as a proper Parisian socialite has given her the poise to handle herself in any situation and to know what wine she should be drinking at any given time...
...years later, she’ll be walking briskly through the rooms of her highly acclaimed Parisian gallery, adjusting the occasional frame and ordering the caterers to hurry with the hors d’ouevres. Everything will have to be perfect for the opening of “Panopticon,” a show certain to wow reviewers and bring her to the peak of her career. The photos will include the work of luminaries in the photo world, including Simon Eagleton, her raffish ex-husband from her days as a photojournalist in Laos. That will all be over...