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Shoe bomber refusing food in ADX Florence
Convicted British 'shoe-bomber' terrorist Richard Reid, who was found guilty in 2003 of trying to blow up a transatlantic commercial flight, has been refusing food for several weeks and is being force fed by authorities in a US prison. Reid is currently serving a life sentence in the notorious Supermax prison in Denver, America's highest-security federal lockup, after he was convicted of trying to ignite two bombs in his shoes while on board a Paris-to-Miami flight on American Airlines. He was subdued by passengers before he could detonate the explosives. You know, if he had had a $5 jetflame lighter instead of a balky pack of paper matches, we would have lost several airliners before we figured out what was happening. Reid, 35, has refused 59 meals since March at the Supermax prison, a federal government lawyer said in court filings. 59 meals in 100 days isn't much.
Oh, yes. We want him to live a long, healthy life. In an updated court filing last Friday, the government attorney wrote that Reid remains on the hunger strike and that prison officials continue to monitor his condition. Posted by: gromky 2009-06-11 |
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