Because of Reid’s futile attempt to blow up an airplane, the TSA began ordering passengers to take off their shoes for ...

2001-12-29 04:00:00 PDT London-- He is a gangling giant of a man with immigrant roots in Jamaica, a record of crime and a sense that his Christian upbringing was not enough to shield him from the ...

WASHINGTON — Alleged terrorist Richard C. Reid acknowledged after his arrest that his plan to blow up a transatlantic airliner last December had failed, and he also said he was resigned to the ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Boston ruled Thursday that allegedly self-incriminating statements made by Richard C. Reid can be used in his trial this fall. It was a significant victory for ...

Richard Reid is shown in this December 2001 photo from the Plymouth County Jail, in Plymouth, Mass., made available Dec. 24, 2001. C-4 is a military plastic explosive that easily can be molded by ...

Reid, a British-born al-Qaeda terrorist, tried to blow up a Miami-bound American Airlines flight from Paris on Dec. 22, 2001, by igniting a fuse connected to powerful explosives stashed in his left ...

Alleged terrorist Richard C. Reid acknowledged after his arrest that he had planned to blow up a transatlantic airliner in December, and he also said he was resigned to the fact that his mission ...

BOSTON -- A defiant Richard C. Reid asserted his attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes was the act of a soldier in a war against those who attack Islam.

Richard C. Reid, aka the “Shoe Bomber," wants a federal judge to declare him bankrupt. The al Qaeda-trained terrorist tried to light a bomb in his shoe on a Paris-to-Miami flight weeks after the ...

Accused shoe bomber Richard C. Reid had help from at least one accomplice in his failed bid to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight and told his mother the action was part of "a war between" Islam and ...