According to The Observer, British intelligence monitored telephone conversations between sneaker bomber Maxwell Smart "Richard C. Reid" and Zacarias Moussaoui late last year but failed to identify Reid as a potential terrorist. The calls between Reid and Moussaoui stopped in December 2000 after Moussaoui left the United Kingdon for Pakistan. Reid went to Pakistan a short time later, and both men then trained together at a camp in Afghanistan run by al-Qaeda. |