"Shoe bomber"

( AP, File )

Richard Colvin Reid who tried to light an "improvised explosive" in his shoes aboard a Paris-to-Miami-bound American Airlines Flight 63, but was subdued by flight attendants and fellow passengers, is transported in a car from Massachusetts State Police barracks at Logan International Airport in Boston Dec. 22, 2001. Police in France identified the suspect as Tariq Raja and said he was a Sri Lankan national. An official with the French Border Police, said the 28-year-old Raja boarded the American Airlines flight using a British passport under the name Richard Colvin Reid