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Furthermore, as the director of the Kuumba Singers, Sheldon K. X. Reid ’96-’97, has often told us, “Black people aren’t the only people who have ever suffered.” The beauty of the spirituals is that every one of us can relate to them in some way because we have all, at some time in our lives, felt down and out. For this reason, even if Kuumba never sang another one, the spirit of the Negro spiritual would continue live on as vibrantly as it does...
...European counterparts still don't know who helped Reid, but they are sure that anybody crazy enough to put on those shoes didn't build them himself...
...taking a big chance just stomping on it." There is no commercial market for TATP; it's too hard to handle. Terrorists increasingly favor it because recipes are all over the Internet, the ingredients can be found in any pharmacy, it's hard to detect, and mules like Reid are going to die anyway...
Alarmed at the lab reports, FBI director Bob Mueller sent an urgent alert to the FAA, air-security personnel and the law-enforcement community. He ordered agents based in Europe to find out how Reid had acquired the explosives...
...that there were contacts." Other early evidence points to signs of al-Qaeda operations, including piles of false identity papers for apparent sale and distribution. And the plot's unsophisticated approach recalls the relatively simple tools used by other presumed al-Qaeda members, such as suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid. "The preparations are all very secretive, but also low-tech," says the French justice official. "Explosives are made at home, from circulated recipes...