These arrests did not deter Al-Qaeda. Instead of infiltrating an operation from the Occupied Territories into Israel , Al Qaeda dispatchched Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber” , to Tel Aviv with the intention of striking inside Israel itself. From July to December 2001 his travel included London, Amsterdam , Tel Aviv, Cairo, Pakistan , Afghanistan , Brussels and Paris . His visit to Israel was exposed accidentally when in January 2002 Wall Street reporters purchased a computer in Kabul containing several thousand files , one of which also referred to various journeys by Abdul Ra’uff, Al Qaeda’s alias for Mr. Reid. The explosive he used also links him to cooperation with Palestinian groups, each of his shoes contained 4 ounces of Pentaerythritol (PETN) , the latter being used as an explosive extensively by Palestinian Jihad/Hamas.
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