File:Richard Reid's Shoes.jpg
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English: On December 22, 2001—just months after the 9/11 attacks—Richard Reid boarded American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with homemade bombs hidden in his shoes.
During the flight, Reid tried to detonate his shoes, but he struggled to light the fuse. Crew members and passengers noticed and restrained him. The plane diverted to Logan International Airport in Boston, and Massachusetts State Police officers took Reid into custody. Reid told FBI agents that he made the shoes himself. On October 4, 2002, Reid pleaded guilty to eight terrorism-related charges. A judge sentenced him to life in federal prison. The FBI's December Artifact of the Month is the pair of shoes Reid—also known as the "shoe bomber"—tried to detonate. FBI bomb techs determined that the shoes contained about 10 ounces of explosive material. During a preliminary hearing, an FBI agent revealed how dangerous the homemade bomb was. She said that bomb techs determined that the bomb would have blown a hole in the plane's fuselage and caused the plane to crash if it had detonated. |
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| Author | Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at https://flickr.com/photos/130809712@N08/50747218406. It was reviewed on 22 September 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark. |
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This image or file is a work of a Federal Bureau of Investigation employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.
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| current | 02:26, 22 September 2021 | | 2,616 × 1,611 (1.63 MB) | TheGreatAugustan | Uploaded a work by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from https://www.flickr.com/photos/fbi/50747218406/ with UploadWizard |
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