Bin Laden Believed Shoe-Bombs Would ‘Ruin Aviation Industry’

Mitchel Maddux
NYPost.com
April 23, 2012

Osama bin Laden believed coordinated shoe-bomb attacks on US-bound flights would “ruin the aviation industry” and shatter America’s economy, according to dramatic testimony in Brooklyn today.

Imprisoned British terrorist Saajid Muhammad Badat, 33, testifying via a prerecorded videotape against accused Queens plotter Adis Medunjanin, 28, described a private, one-on-one audience with bin Laden in Afghanistan in fall of 2001, just after the 9/11 attacks.

Badat and convicted Detroit shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to bring down planes on the same day, but the witness backed out at the last moment.

This article was posted: Monday, April 23, 2012 at 1:37 pm

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