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Briton Richard Reid, who allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic flight with bombs in his shoes, wants to read Time magazine in jail but the U.S. government will give him only censored copies, his lawyers said on Monday."The government has (told us) it will delete from each issue, before allowing the defendant to have it, anything about terrorism and 'related matters'," Reid's lawyers said, arguing such deletions would amount to unfair censorship. "Even if the government had the authority ... to make such deletions to prevent violence or other crime, there is no conceivable chance that ... reading Time...

NEW DELHI: The trial of Omar Sheikh, alleged mastermind of slain US reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnapping, in the port town of Karachi on Monday was being awaited with bated breath especially after media reports in Pakistan quoted the British-born Pakistani militant as saying that his statement in the court would shake everyone. Terming the trial as one of the most important cases in the country's history, noted Pakistani weekly The Friday Times said though it was not clear whether Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh would plead guilty before the court, prison officials had overheard him telling his father that he was...

<p>April 7, 2002 -- Prosecutors will file new papers this week in the case of shoe bomber Richard Reid - but they're still not saying if they will seek death penalty charges against him.</p> <p>Reid, a 28-year-old British convert to Islam, is charged with trying to detonate bombs hidden in his sneakers while aboard American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22.</p>

WASHINGTON: British shoebomber suspect Richard Reid, who was overpowered when trying to blow up a plane from Paris, may have undertaken his last mission on instructions from someone in Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to French investigators. Reid, a convert to Islam, had taken "training classes" in Pakistan sometime in 1999. It is unclear how long he remained in Pakistan but he was back in London last July, media reports quoted the French investigators as saying. Reid then went to Amsterdam and applied for a new passport at the British Embassy there, declaring that he had accidentally put his previous...

LAHORE, March 25, 2002 -- While US journalist Daniel Pearl had in general told people, who came into contact with him in the days prior to his abduction and murder, that he was completing a story on shoe-bomb terrorist Richard Reid, there is now increased evidence that he was also looking at far more sensitive matters. Some of those who had spoken to Pearl during his stay in Karachi believe that his main interest was in looking into the links between certain agencies in Pakistan with religious militancy. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the most powerful agency in the country, had...

Pearl's murder technique proves Jaish link Siddharth Srivastava Times News NetworkFriday,February 22, 2002 2:32:51 PM NEW DELHI: The brutal way in which WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered is a clear indication of the involvement of the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which is headed by Masood Azhar and Omar Sheikh, say senior security officials with the Intelligence Bureau. Pearl's throat was slit from behind by his abductors and, going by media reports, he was subsequently beheaded. This is similar to the manner which 27-year-old Norwegian Hans Ostro was beheaded by Al Faran terrorists in July 1995 and the way Rupen Katyal, ...

Daniel Pearl was kidnapped, tortured, and killed because he was an American Jew who worked for the Wall Street Journal. Don't think for a minute he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was targeted because of what he represented, what he stood for. These killers are marching to the drumbeat of people who study us carefully, hate us intensely, and savor the symbolism of their actions. They struck at the most widely read publication in the world, a newspaper that had unrelentingly exposed them, that had revealed the hatred of the Iranian ...

<p>February 18, 2002 -- Investigators trying to unravel the past of alleged airplane shoe bomber Richard Reid have been focusing on his ties with an extensive ring of al Qaeda terror suspects based in Europe.</p> <p>Probers have been helped by a stash of prepaid telephone cards used by Reid, Time magazine reported today.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- New evidence has emerged linking Richard Reid, who is charged with trying to blow up a U.S. commercial jet by lighting explosives in his shoes, to one of Osama bin Laden's European cells, CNN has learned.</p> <p>The new link to al Qaeda, the terrorist network run by bin Laden, involves phone cards.</p>

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Suspect confesses links to shoe-bomber By ELIZABETH BRYANT, United Press International United Press International February 10, 2002, Sunday 10:00 AM Eastern Time PARIS, Feb. 10 A man arrested in France last week for allegedly planning a terrorist attack on a French cathedral has reportedly confessed to having met two prominent terrorist suspects at the same Afghan training camp in 2000: Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Yacine Aknouche, 27, also told French investigators he met suspected terrorist Ahmed Ressam during another stint in ...

US detectives have found evidence that alleged shoe-bomber Richard Reid did not act alone. The FBI has discovered someone else's hair and palm prints in the explosive-filled shoes, with which Reid allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight. The shoes have undergone a battery of forensic tests in a bid to find the source of the explosives. Reid reportedly claimed to have bought them for £1,050 in Amsterdam. Reid, a 28-year-old Londoner, faces life in prison after his arrest on December 22 following an alleged attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami. The former ...

<p>January 20, 2002 -- Accused shoe bomber Richard Reid allegedly sent an e-mail to supporters across Europe in which he revealed his plan to blow up a Paris-to-Miami airliner and die a "martyr in the cause of Islam."</p> <p>The 28-year-old Briton asked that his note be published after the mission succeeded, French news reports said.</p>

Paris, Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Reid, the man accused of trying to ignite explosives hidden in his shoes on an American Airlines Inc. flight last month, had support across Europe, Agence France-Presse said, citing a source close to the investigation. Investigators found emails sent by Reid to various European destinations, the news agency reported. French police seized hard drives from the Happy Call Internet cafe in Paris, which Reid visited before boarding a Paris-Miami flight on Dec. 22, AFP said. In several emails, Reid called himself a ``martyr for the Islamic cause,'' AFP said, citing French regional newspaper ...

In e-mails apparently sent by shoe-bomb suspect Richard Reid before he boarded a Paris-Miami flight, he indicated he would be destroying an airplane and, after being thwarted from boarding an earlier flight, asked one recipient in Pakistan if he should “go again.” The mail was found on the hard drives of computers used by the 28-year-old Briton while he was in Paris, French news media reported Saturday. COMPUTER EXPERTS were able to retrieve the data off hard drives from computers used by Reid, Europe 1 Radio and the newspaper La Provence reported Saturday. Europe 1 reporter Frederic Helbert provided the ...

PARIS, Jan 19, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Shoe-bomber suspect Richard Reid left an electronic confession that he planned to be a "martyr for the Islamist cause" before climbing aboard a Miami-bound American Airlines flight in Paris, La Provence newspaper reported Saturday. The Marseilles-based newspaper said the FBI traced Reid's alleged confession to a Paris cybercafe, after finding the establishment's professional card in his possession. The 28-year British citizen pleaded not guilty in a Boston courtroom Friday to charges he had tried to destroy the American flight Dec. 22. A French Interior Ministry official contacted by United ...

A high-rolling Hub lawyer whose jurist wife is presiding over the case against accused shoe bomber Richard Reid was among seven men busted for fondling each other in a seedy Rhode Island porno theater this week, police and sources said. Attorney Alan M. Reisch, a partner at the prestigious Goulston and Storrs law firm, was one of seven men busted in Amazing Express Video in Johnston, R.I., Wednesday night. Reisch, the husband of U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Judith Dein, and the other six men all had their pants down and were engaged in various sex acts when cops ...

MARSEILLE (Reuters) - A French newspaper reported on Saturday that investigators had found an e-mail message in which alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid wrote of plans to destroy an airliner. La Provence, based in the southern city of Marseille, said investigators had tracked the e-mail thanks to a cybercafe address found on Reid. The 28-year-old Briton pleaded not guilty in a U.S. court on Friday to charges that he tried to blow up the Miami-bound plane he boarded in Paris last month. The newspaper said in an unsourced story that Reid, alleged by U.S. officials to have trained with ...

Law-enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic are trying to establish a connection between would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, Al Qaeda. One possible link: suspected "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui. Investigators suspect Moussaoui may have introduced Reid to members of a terrorist cell in the Netherlands, who could have provided him with the bomb-stuffed hiking boots he tried to ignite aboard a transatlantic American Airlines flight on Dec. 22. After his arrest, law-enforcement sources say that Reid, a British citizen, told FBI interrogators he obtained his shoes and their explosive contents in Amsterdam, where he ...