Osama Bin Laden wanted shoe bombers to follow up on 9/11 attacks

Al Qaeda’s slain leader Osama Bin Laden had planned to follow up the September 11 attacks with shoe bombers to blow up American passenger planes, which would have brought the American economy to its knees, a British man convicted on terrorism charges testified in trail here.

On Monday, Saajid Badat gave his testimony through a video link in the ongoing trail in federal district court in Brooklyn of Adis Medunjanin, a Queens man alleged of plotting with two of his schoolmates to blow up New York sub ways.” He (Osama) said that the American economy is like a chain. If you break one line of the chain, the whole economy will be destroy" he testified .

Badat who 33 years old. He was convicted in LONDON for his role in a 2001 plot to bring down an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoes. While the testimony of Badat was not directly related to New York sub way terror plot, it was used to corroborate facts about the teaining in  Qaidarun camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a report in the New York Times said.