AN ENDURING THREAT: EUROPE’S ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS THEN AND NOW Following the 9/11 attacks, he returned to Afghanistan via Pakistan and met with bomb-maker Abu 1090 Khabbab al-Masri before returning to carry out his suicide attack. On 22 December he was spotted as he tried to detonate his shoe bomb and was overpowered by passengers. In October 2002, he plead guilty 1091 to the attempted attack and was sentenced to life in prison. 1092 Foreign training/combat: Attended Khalden training camp in Afghanistan in 1998. Movements: Afghanistan (1998, 2001); Belgium (2001); Israel (2001); Egypt (2001); Turkey (2001); 1093 Pakistan (2001); the Netherlands (2001). Criminal history: Reid was involved in petty crime including robbery and drug use in his youth and was imprisoned in Feltham Young Offenders Institution in 1992 for an attack on a pensioner. Convicted of 1094 over 40 counts of burglary in 1992 and imprisoned for three years. Convicted of attempting to blow up 1095 a transatlantic aircraft en route to the US from Europe in January 2003. Known to the authorities: Unknown. Networks and associates: -! ‘Shoe-bomb’ plot: Saajid Badat [Conspired with Reid to ‘shoe-bomb’ a transatlantic flight but 1096 backed out]; Abu Khabbab al-Masri [Reid visited the bomb maker in Jalalabad in November 1097 2001]. US Embassy and Cultural Centre plot (2001) -! : Djamel Beghal [Reid was recruited by Beghal after 1098 the men met at Finsbury Park Mosque where Reid was staying]. NATO Airbase plot: 1099 -! Nizar Trabelsi [Stayed with Trabelsi, who has been described as Reid’s 1100 handler in the 2001 shoe bomb plot]. 1101 US Embassy plot: -! Jerome Courtailler [Believed to have met Reid in the Netherlands]. -! Al-Qaeda: David Courtailler [Courtailler’s time at Khalden training camp is believed to have 1102 coincided with that of Reid]; Zacarias Moussaoui [Reid is said to have “hero worshipped’” 1103 Moussaoui and the two men’s time at Khalden coincided]; Ahmed Ressam [The two men 1104 appear to have been at Khalden at the same time]. ! ! 1090 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006) pp. 228-230 1091 ‘Shoe bomber: Tale of another failed terrorist attack’, CNN, 26 December 2009, available at: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/25/richard.reid.shoe.bomber/, last visited: 9 August 2016. 1092 ‘Sources: Reid is al Qaeda operative’, International CNN, 6 December 2003. 1093 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006), p. 228-9. 1094 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006) p. 219. 1095 ‘Unrepentant Shoe Bomber Sentenced to Life’, International New York Times, 31 January 2003. 1096 ‘Terror suspect admits plane plot’, BBC News, 28 February 2005, available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4304223.stm, last visited: 9 August 2016. 1097 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006), p. 230. 1098 ibid, p. 225. 1099 ibid, p. 229. 1100 Dodd, V., ‘Former grammar school boy gets 13 years for shoe bomb plot’, Guardian, 23 April 2005. 1101 ‘Europe fears Islamic converts may give cover for extremism’, The New York Times, 19 July 2004. 1102 ibid. 1103 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006), p. 221. 1104 ‘Europe fears Islamic converts may give cover for extremism’, The New York Times, 19 July 2004. ! ! 86 !