How the Shoe Bomber do.

December 4, 2006 1:00 PM

Window Into a Terrorist’s Isolation. British citizen and convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid plays Trivial Pursuit.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese (20 comments total)

What the deuce?!
posted by Pastabagel at 1:23 PM on December 4, 2006

Sweet!
posted by Balisong at 1:26 PM on December 4, 2006

Something fishy is going on here.
posted by Alex404 at 1:31 PM on December 4, 2006

Am I supposed to feel bad for this guy? He's convicted in a court of law. Sound like he's where he belongs.
posted by jonmc at 1:32 PM on December 4, 2006

Can we have links to the locations and activities of all detainees and enemy combatants? Or just a really big chart?
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:34 PM on December 4, 2006

I heard somewhere that he was American.
posted by hal9k at 1:36 PM on December 4, 2006

I dont get the thing about them searching his shoes. I mean, FFS, he's not likely to be making shoe bombs in solitary confinement out of his filed down toothbrush stump.
posted by ClanvidHorse at 1:37 PM on December 4, 2006

This is all well and good, but what I'd really like to read about is a window into a terror suspect's isolation.
posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 1:46 PM on December 4, 2006

Sounds like he's a lot better off then the people who havn't been convicted...
posted by delmoi at 1:53 PM on December 4, 2006

Perhaps there will be room in this facility for the criminals currently operating in Washington for the next two years.
posted by melkozek at 2:05 PM on December 4, 2006

It's a shame that this is the way the justice system does its dealings, but this guy is a real terrorist, not an average muslim guy labeled as one in this climate of fear. He tried to do worse things to the people of your country than even your government (surprising, I know). He tried to kill every single person on a passenger jet. Maybe you'd feel less sympathy for him if he had used a knife instead of a "silly" shoe bomb?
posted by tehloki at 3:27 PM on December 4, 2006

Fascinating story. Thanks, KAC.
posted by grouse at 3:34 PM on December 4, 2006

Whilst I don't feel bad for the guy, I can't applaud the regime. It is cruel. Don't fool yourself; it is a cruel regime. We can argue about the necessity for it or even the wider benefits that justify its cruelty. But do not deny that it is cruel. That would be silly. After all these poor guys get a black and white TV with rather limited channels. Fucking evil.

Fuck all that tho, I've a mate that went to school with Mr Reid. It's his claim to fame. And mine...(
posted by econous at 4:30 PM on December 4, 2006

Kill him and get it over with.
posted by Joeforking at 4:40 PM on December 4, 2006

Kill him and get it over with.
posted by Joeforking at 4:40 PM PST on December 4[+][!]

And while you're at it...
posted by mek at 5:16 PM on December 4, 2006

Doub...oh, I see what you did there. Apparently he was convicted, I guess that's a thing now.
posted by Smedleyman at 5:19 PM on December 4, 2006

tehloki writes "He tried to kill every single person on a passenger jet. Maybe you'd feel less sympathy for him if he had used a knife instead of a 'silly' shoe bomb?"

Who the hell has expressed sympathy?! I think we all agree that this psycho should rot.
posted by mr_roboto at 6:22 PM on December 4, 2006

Oh, and for the sake of thread quality, here's a previous MeFi post about Kwame James, who helped to subdue Reid on the flight he was trying to bring down. It's a good story.
posted by mr_roboto at 6:25 PM on December 4, 2006

Facinating article. Seems like it's damn-near impossible to escape from there.
posted by Harald74 at 12:41 AM on December 5, 2006

The article is presented in a tone that seems to justify anger at his imprisonment. I guess the conditions could be better.
posted by tehloki at 9:23 PM on December 5, 2006