Editing Richard Reid (section)

==Background==
Reid was born in [[Bromley]], London,<ref name="profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/828/000058654/|title=Profile|publisher=NNDB|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212134940/http://nndb.com/people/828/000058654/|archive-date=12 February 2010}} In an email sent to his mother, Reid stated he was part of the war "against unbelief" and was sacrificing his life to "help remove the oppressive American forces from the Muslim lands"</ref> to Lesley Hughes, who was of native English descent, and Colvin Robin Reid, a man of mixed race whose father was a [[Jamaica]]n immigrant.<ref name="time 02-12-02">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,203478,00.html|title=The Shoe Bomber's World|last=Elliott|first=Michael|date=12 February 2002|magazine=Time|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827143428/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,203478,00.html|archive-date=27 August 2013}}</ref> When Reid was born, his father, a career criminal, was in prison for stealing a car.<ref name="time 02-12-02"/> Reid attended [[Thomas Tallis School]] in [[Kidbrooke]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1366666/From-tearaway-to-terrorist-The-story-of-Richard-Reid.html|title=From tearaway to terrorist – The story of Richard Reid|first=Olga|last=Craig|date=30 December 2001|access-date=4 May 2018|work=The Daily Telegraph|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805071820/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1366666/From-tearaway-to-terrorist-The-story-of-Richard-Reid.html|archive-date=5 August 2017}}</ref> leaving at age 16 and becoming a graffiti writer (vandal) who was in and out of detention.<ref name="time 02-12-02"/> He began vandalizing by writing [[graffiti]] under the name "'''Enrol'''" as part of a gang,<ref name="Millbank 2001">{{cite news|title=Loner Vowed to Make His Evil Mark|last=Millbank|first=James|date=30 December 2001|work=News of the World}}</ref><ref name="Observer 01-11-09">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jan/11/muslim-extremists-crime-gangs-london|title=Islamists target teen crime gangs in London|last1=Syal|first1=Rajeev|last2=Townsend|first2=Mark|date=11 January 2001|work=The Observer|access-date=16 February 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730015457/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jan/11/muslim-extremists-crime-gangs-london|archive-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> and ultimately accumulated more than 10 convictions for crimes against persons and property.<ref name="CNN 12-28-01">{{cite news |author1=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=28 December 2001 |title=Judge denies bail to accused shoe bomber |work=CNN |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/28/inv.reid/ |access-date=9 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050319141213/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/28/inv.reid/ |archive-date=19 March 2005}}</ref> He served sentences at [[Feltham Young Offenders Institution]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/07/reid.timeline/index.html|title=Timeline: The shoe bomber case|date=7 January 2002|publisher=CNN|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115082019/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/07/reid.timeline/index.html|archive-date=15 January 2010}}</ref> and at [[Blundeston (HM Prison)|Maidstone Prison]].<ref name="guardian 02-28-02">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/28/september11.race|title=At school with the shoe bomber|last=Nzerem|first=Keme|date=28 February 2002|work=The Guardian|location=London|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826003758/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/28/september11.race|archive-date=26 August 2013}}</ref>

In 1992, while serving a three-year sentence for various street robberies, he converted to Islam.<ref name="time 02-12-02"/><ref name="time 01-14-02">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,193661,00.html|title=Looking for Trouble|last=Gibson|first=Helen|date=14 January 2002|magazine=Time|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227185116/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,193661,00.html|archive-date=27 December 2007}}</ref><ref>Reid reportedly followed a fundamentalist form of Islam known as [[Salafi]], which seeks a return to the roots of the religion and is the predominant form of Islam practiced in [[Saudi Arabia]]{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wahhabism-a-deadly-scripture-398516.html|title=Wahhabism: A deadly scripture|date=1 November 2007|work=The Independent|access-date=31 December 2009|location=London|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110728083247/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wahhabism-a-deadly-scripture-398516.html|archive-date=28 July 2011}}</ref>