Article: OUTRAGE AS FEDS SOFTEN RULES ON SHOE BOMBER.(News)

Byline: JESSICA FARGEN

Airplane shoe bomber Richard C. Reid no longer faces severe limits on his prison activities or communications after the Obama administration quietly ended years of hard-nosed curbs against the British-born al-Qaeda terrorist.

This summer the Justice Department halted six years of measures that kept Reid from associating or praying with fellow jailed Muslim terrorists, and limited his access to the news media and pen pals.

That move has outraged victims of al-Qaeda and security experts. The recommendation to lift the restrictions was made with input from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, which prosecuted Reid in 2002, ...

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