Shoe-bomb, hijack suspects linked

BOSTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The shoe-bomb suspect who allegedly tried to blow up an American Airlines jetliner over the Atlantic has been linked by British intelligence to an indicted co-conspirator in the Sept. 11 attacks, according to media reports Monday. Islamic convert Richard C. Reid was monitored by British intelligence talking on the telephone last year with hijack suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, The Observer reported.