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The Shoe's Tracks.(Richard Reid )(Brief Article)
What's the connection between shoebomber Richard Reid and Al Qaeda? One possibility: 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 boots he tried to ignite aboard a transatlantic flight on Dec. 22.
Law-enforcement sources say that Reid told FBI interrogators he came up with the bomb plot, recipe and supplies on his own in Amsterdam (with help from the Internet). But Dutch authorities don't believe him. They are investigating contacts they believe he made in the Netherlands, including reports he may have hooked up with Jerome Courtailler, a suspected French terrorist. Dutch police arrested Courtailler on Sept. 13; he is still being held on terrorism conspiracy charges.
Investigators believe that Courtailler was acquainted with Moussaoui. They suspect that Courtailler and his brother, David, visited Moussaoui's London apartment in the '90s. U.S. and British investigators have also unearthed records from two British cell phones used by Moussaoui from which nine calls were made to the Netherlands.
Evidence of direct contacts between Moussaoui and Reid is still largely circumstantial. Abu Zakaria, a ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The Shoe's Tracks.(Richard Reid )(Brief Article)