Here’s a look at the life of Richard Reid, 也称为 “鞋轰炸机” 因为他试图引爆美国航空航班上运动鞋中隐藏的爆炸物. He is serving a life sentence at the US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum facility in Florence, 科罗拉多州. Zacarias Moussaoui, 被定罪 九月 11 conspirator, is also incarcerated there.
个人
生日: 八月 12, 1973
出生地: 英国
出生时的名字: Richard Colvin Reid
其他事实
Prosecutors believe Reid received training in Afghanistan from al Qaeda.
Investigators believe Reid had accomplices, but Reid claims to have acted alone.
时间线
1992-1996 – Reid is in and out of British prisons for petty crimes. He converts to Islam while in prison.
1998-1999 – Attends the same London mosque as Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted September 11 conspirator.
十一月 2001 – Travels to 巴基斯坦.
十二月 5, 2001 – Travels to Brussels, Belgium. While there, Reid tells Belgian authorities he’s lost his British passport and is issued a new one by the British Embassy.
十二月 16, 2001 – Travels to Paris.
十二月 17, 2001 – Buys a round-trip ticket from Paris to Miami to Antigua.
十二月 21, 2001 – Is questioned by airport officials after a security agent becomes suspicious because Reid had paid for his ticket with cash and is traveling without checking luggage. By the time Reid is cleared to board his flight, the plane has already left Paris.
十二月 22, 2001 – Boards American Airlines Flight 63, Paris to Miami. During the flight, Reid tries to use a match to light explosives hidden in his shoes. Passengers and crew restrain him. The flight diverts to Boston. Reid is arrested.
一月 16, 2002 – Is indicted on nine counts, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder of passengers on an aircraft, and attempted homicide of US nationals overseas.
一月 18, 2002 – Pleads not guilty to eight charges. His attorney asks the court to dismiss the ninth count, attempted wrecking of a mass transportation vehicle, which is dismissed.
十月 4, 2002 – Pleads guilty to the eight counts against him.
一月 30, 2003 – Is sentenced to life in prison and fined $ 2 百万.
十月 4, 2004 – Saajid Mohammed Badat, of the United Kingdom, is charged with conspiring with and aiding Reid. The British indictment alleges that Badat and Reid obtained custom-made shoe bombs in Afghanistan to be used to attack US interests.
二月 28, 2005 – Badat pleads guilty to conspiring with Reid to blow up a US aircraft.
四月 22, 2005 – Badat is sentenced to 13 入狱多年. There is evidence that he had withdrawn from the plot.
2007 – Reid files a lawsuit against the government saying the special administrative measures (SAMs) applied to him in prison violate his First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of religion. The restrictions limit his access to news and correspondence and prohibit him from praying with other prisoners.
六月 2009 – The US Justice Department relaxes the SAMs being applied to Reid. He continues with his lawsuit, claiming his First Amendment rights are still being violated.
2010 – Reid’s lawsuit about the SAMs being applied to him in prison is dismissed.
