No evidence to link Reid to Moussaoui

The US government today conceded it had no evidence that British would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid was to have conducted a terror hijacking with Zacarias Moussaoui, as Moussaoui has claimed.

The defence introduced a statement, agreed by government prosecutors, that was presented to the jury in Alexandria, Virginia, considering whether Moussaoui should be executed or imprisoned for life.

Moussaoui had stunned his trial on March 27 by claiming for the first time that he had intended to participate in the September 11 attacks but was arrested a month before the attacks using passenger planes as missiles.