‘Shoe Bomber’ Says He Can’t Afford to Pay Fine

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Richard C. Reid, aka the “Shoe Bomber,” wants a federal judge to declare him bankrupt. The al Qaeda-trained terrorist tried to light a bomb in his shoe on a Paris-to-Miami flight weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks and is serving a life sentence at a “supermax” prison in Colorado. In a handwritten letter to U.S. […]

(via WSJ)

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