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...apparent suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan, pulled his car up beside a military bus loaded with French contract workers, exploded the car and killed 14. Those waiting nervously for a second al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. may have forgotten: it already happened. Last December, shoe bomber Richard Reid tried to blow up an American Airlines plane over the Atlantic in an incident that investigators have long been convinced was an al-Qaeda plot. Though that effort was foiled, the terrorists have not given up. "Just as a wounded animal is the most dangerous of all," Air Force General Richard...
...days before Christmas, Richard Reid tried to blow up an American Airlines flight with his Nikes and some plastic explosives. The quick thinking of flight attendant Hermis Moutardier prevented Reid from succeeding and probably saved almost 200 lives, but it did little to assuage my tragic thoughts when I boarded a transatlantic plane at the beginning of intersession a month later. As red-clad Virgin Atlantic stewardesses went up and down the aisles demurely serving dinner, a heretofore-unknown seriousness seemed to creep into the sides of their smiles. If there is indeed a war on terrorism, they were...
...Moreover, the brief says, (again, confirming earlier news reports) that Reid spent thousands of dollars on travel even though had no visible source of funds. The brief says...
...Reid?s British passport reveals, consistent with Reid?s own post-arrest statements, that starting on July 12, 2001, he traveled from Belgium to Israel, to Egypt, to Turkey, and finally to Pakistan, before leaving that country for an unknown destination on August 14, 2001. His passport also indicates a second trip to Pakistan on November 20, 2001, with an exit from that country on December 5, 2001. Airline records disclose that he flew from Karachi to Belgium. On December 18, 2001, Reid purchased a round trip airline ticket on Flight 63 with the cash equivalent...
...Justice Department brief was filed in response to a motion filed by Reid's lawyers objecting to constraints on his contacts with his defense team. The prosecutors argued that Reid's communications must be carefully monitored by the government because he "is a committed loyalist who attempted to commit mass murder as part of a terrorist campaign against this nation - a campaign which deploys techniques of stealth and secrecy, including codes and 'hidden messages...