After his return , Badat , like Reid , obtained duplicate passports from British consulates ( court documents claim Badat was in the British embassy in Brussels doing so on 12 September 2001 , having watched the attacks of the previous day on television ) . Both Reid and Badat returned to Pakistan in November 2001 , and reportedly travelled overland to Afghanistan . They both were given " shoe bombs " , casual footwear adapted to be covertly smuggled onto aircraft before being used to destroy them . Later forensic analysis of the bombs showed that they both contained the same plastic explosive and that the respective lengths of detonator cord had come from the same batch ( the cut mark on Badat 's cord matches exactly that on Reid 's ) . The pair returned separately to the UK in early December 2001
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Saajid Badat