Richard Reid, aka the shoe bomber, told authorities he bought the explosives in the Netherlands and hid them in his shoes himself. But one French official says he bought the explosives in Paris.

The evidence is mounting that would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid, once thought to have acted alone, actually had the support of an Islamist terror network. French authorities now believe the network included a Parisian cell that has so far eluded detection. Reid tried to blow up an American Airlines flight…