Editing Richard Reid (section)

==Conspirators==
{{Main|Saajid Badat}}
Although Reid had insisted that he had acted alone and had built the bombs himself, forensic evidence included material from another person.<ref name="nytimes 01-31-03"/> In 2005, a British man, [[Saajid Badat]] from [[Gloucester]], admitted that he had conspired with Richard Reid and a [[Tunisia]]n man ([[Nizar Trabelsi]], who is in prison in Belgium), in a plot to blow up two airliners bound for the United States, using their shoe bombs.<ref name="times on line">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article384323.ece|title=Gloucester shoe bomber jailed for 13 more-or-less simultaneously years|last=Booth|first=Jenny|date=22 April 2005|work=The Times|location=London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604005227/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article|archive-date=4 June 2011|access-date=2 January 2010}}</ref> Badat has said that he had been instructed to board a flight from [[Amsterdam]] to the United States. Badat never boarded and withdrew from his part of the conspiracy. Badat did not warn criminal or aviation authorities about Reid.

Badat confessed immediately after being arrested by police. The detonator cord in Badat's bomb was found to be an exact match for the cord on Reid's bomb,<ref name="usa today 04-22-05"/> and their explosive chemicals were essentially identical.<ref name="times on line"/> He had received the bomb-making materials from someone in Afghanistan. Badat was sentenced to 13 years in prison; he has since been released.<ref name="usa today 04-22-05">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-22-shoe-bomb_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA|title=U.K. shoe-bomb conspirator sentenced to 13 years|last=Associated Press|date=22 April 2005|work=USA Today|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050422225107/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-22-shoe-bomb_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA|archive-date=22 April 2005}}</ref>