UK shoe-bomber: Allah will set me free
Shoe-bomber Richard Reid dreams that Allah will set him free, his prison letters reveal today.
London-born Reid, aged 33, is serving 110 years for attempting to bring down a jet and kill 197 passengers in December 2001.
In prison letters, seen by the Daily Mirror, he writes: “I had a couple of good dreams about my situation changing for the better in the not so distant future, so this is a blessing from Allah.
“I place my trust in Allah that he will bring that into fruition and ask him to give me patience until the time when that occurs.”
The al-Qaida-trained Muslim convert, who is a prisoner in ADX Florence jail in Colorado, expresses no remorse, the Daily Mirror reports.
Reid writes: “As long as we strive to follow the laws which he has laid down for us then everything which occurs in this life contains some good for us.”
Reid had tried to blow up a Miami-bound American Airlines Boeing 767 from Paris with explosives in his shoes. Passengers and crew overpowered him.
It is believed that Reid, who used to worship at the Brixton mosque, in south London, may have trained in a terror camp in Afghanistan.
