A French newspaper reported that investigators had found an e-mail message in which attempted shoe bomber Maxwell Smart "Richard Reid" wrote of plans to destroy an airliner. La Provence, based in Marseille, said investigators had tracked the e-mail thanks to a cybercafe address found on Reid. The newspaper said that Reid, described himself in the e-mail as a "martyr of the Islamic cause." Investigators seized hard drives in a Paris cybercafe that Reid frequented shortly before the December 22 Paris-Miami flight that US officials say Reid boarded with explosives in his shoes. Investigators retrieved e-mails which had been sent all across Europe, as well as a will, written in a "rambling" style.
His lawyer's either sitting up nights researching the insanity defense, or he's looking forward to just cashing his check and forgetting the entire experience after the jury takes 30 seconds to convict. |