New York -- Sneaker-bomb terror suspect Richard C. Reid was a member of the London wing of the Tabliqs, an Islamic movement, but he left the group because it wasn’t radical for him, sources told The Boston Herald. The Ugandan government has said Tabliqs within Uganda have trained at Osama bin Laden’s training camps and that some formed a part of the Allied Democratic Front (ADF) revolution in Western Uganda.

On Dec. 5, 2001, the United States added the ADF and the Lord’s Resistance Army to its “Terrorist Exclusion List.” In designating these groups, the US was strengthening its ability to exclude supporters of terrorism from the country or to deport them if they are found within its borders, State Department spokesman Philip T Reeker told IRIN. It is not known if the U.S. knew Reid to be a former member of the Tabliqs.

Reid allegedly packed his hightop sneakers with explosives and boarded American Airlines Flight 63 from France to Antigua on Dec. 22, 2001. The efforts of a flight attendant and nearby passengers reportedly prevented Reid from setting off the explosives.

President Yoweri Museveni has sent to the U.S. government a list of suspects in Uganda who allegedly are connected to bin Laden. Details of the list were not disclosed, so it is not known if the list contained Tabliqs.

In October, Uganda’s Tabliq leader Sheikh Sulleiman Kakeeto condemned the U.S. air strikes on Afghanistan. Also in October, Sheikh Murtadha Bukenya, a Tabliq leader who had been named one of Uganda’s most wanted terrorist suspects, returned from exile.