The alleged "shoe bomber" Richard Reid was today preparing to appear in a US court as his parents spoke of their shock that he had apparently tried to bring down a passenger plane. His mother ...

Like Reid, Ra'uff endured tough questioning by El Al's notoriously strict security guards, who searched his clothes and shoes but found nothing.

Richard Reid, widely known as the "Shoe Bomber," was sentenced to life in prison on January 31, 2003, after pleading guilty to multiple terrorism-related charges ...

A U.S. District Court in Boston today accepted Richard Reid's decision to plead guilty to charges that he tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight last December with explosives hidden in his shoes.