E-mail ties Richard Reid to Pakistan

MSNBC ^ | January 19, 2002 | MSNBC Staff

[Bubba_Leroy]

I vote we bring back drawing and quartering for terrorists who try to blow up airplanes.

[Sabertooth]

(((ping))))

[VaBthang4]

"Reid could be moved to Alexandria, Va., to stand trial. "

Yes......bring him on down to Ol' Virginia, birthplace of Presidents......we'll handle it from there.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good post. Guess he was asking if his shoes would blow up after being held overnight!

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[BJClinton]

All Paris-area hotels have been checked, leading investigators to believe that he was lodged by someone privately.

Paris is quite the breeding ground for terrorists, we should nuke them!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

[Bogie]

Good post!!

[Lion's Cub]

FYI. So his instructions came from an email address in Pakistan, NOT Afghanistan.

[2Trievers]

Some rope and a lamp post would do just fine!

[MizSterious]

The "not guilty" plea--I suppose, in the tradition of a certain other terrorist, it would depend on the meaning of "not" and "guilty."

[Victoria Delsoul]

He wrote that he was a "martyr for the Islamic cause" and asked his mother to convert to Islam.

Bump for the religion of peace. </ sarcasm>

[No!]

WHy isn't he in Guantanamo?

[Sabertooth]

Bump for the religion of peace. </ sarcasm>

Bump Bomb for the religion of peace. </ sarcasm>

[Libertina]

The "not guilty" plea--I suppose, in the tradition of a certain other terrorist, it would depend on the meaning of "not" and "guilty."
LOL Michael Savage said something along the lines that the defense would say:

"Michael Reed, although he had wires coming from his shoes, which may or may not have been attched to plastic explosives, needs the wires to listen to raido broadcasts addressing certain ethnic peoples. Because these are NOT available on the usual radio waves, you are a racist...."

[aristeides]

A few hours after Reid missed a Paris-Miami flight on Dec. 21, he sent e-mail to a Pakistani address from the business center of the Copthorne Hotel, where American Airlines had put him up after tight security prevented Reid from making the flight. In that e-mail he told the recipient of the difficulty of boarding and asks, “Should I go again?” An e-mail was sent back to Reid that said, “Yes, go again.”

That's right. Whoever it was in Pakistan was his superior in the organization and entitled to give him orders, and probably orders to a lot of other operatives in the organization. It's vital to identify him. Even if he won't talk, his records and computer files are likely to contain all sorts of valuable information. I wonder if he's Abu Zubaida.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

Does it bother anyone else that the media continues to call this bozo "Richard Reid"? The early reports suggested that he went by another name (that made him sound less, shall I say, English/American/European). Seems to me that by calling him by this artificial name, we are misrepresenting his background, ostensibly for PC "religion of peace" purposes.

[okie01]

"So his instructions came from an email address in Pakistan, NOT Afghanistan."

The Pakistan e-address could be a cutout. Just like Yahoo or Hotmail.

Thus, Reid's correspondent could have been anywhere -- Pakistan, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia. Even Washington D.C., for that matter.

[nocommies]

oh i agree, drives me nuts. richard reid? yeah, my name is super c. man.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, and probably true, too.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Right, I agree.