Media outlets reported on Tuesday that Dr. Afia Siddiqui was indicted by a U.S. court “for allegedly attacking U.S. agents who went to interrogate her after she was arrested by local police in Afghanistan.” According to the AFP:
Siddiqui faces one count of attempting to kill U.S. nationals abroad; one count of attempting to kill U.S. officers and employees; one count of armed assault of US officers and employees; one count of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence; and three counts of assault of U.S. officers and employees.
The official statement read, “If convicted, Siddiqui faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each of the attempted murder and armed assault charges; life in prison on the firearm charge; and eight years in prison on each of the remaining assault charges.”
The statement, noted the AFP, also read, “Siddiqui was carrying items including handwritten notes referring to a “mass casualty attack” and a list of several U.S. locations, including the Plumb Island Animal Disease Center, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, and the Brooklyn Bridge.” However, the Daily Times reported, “While the U.S. intelligence officials have told Pakistani officials in past weeks that there is coercive evidence in their possession linking the Pakistani scientist to terrorism and Al Qaeda, surprisingly no such charge has been brought against her.” The news agency detailed two possible reasons for this: “one that the prosecution is fairly confident that it can obtain a conviction without charging her with terrorism; and, two, that the prosecution does not want to disclose information that would have had to be made public were Siddiqui to be charged with terrorism.”
Siddiqui’s case is a very controversial one, with rights groups and her family claiming she was held in a U.S. prison in Afghanistan for about five years prior to her reappearance last month, [for all CHUP posts on Afia Siddiqui, click here.] Siddiqui will reportedly be arraigned on her indictment today.
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@ USA justice is fraudulent, crook and Nazi style.
The Police state is not different than Stalinist.
BUT WE WILL KEEP ON FIGHTING THE EVIL ON
EARTH, MUSLIM KILLER, GENOCIDER.
@ Rafay or others here,
What is known of the ex-husband of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui? I am just amazed that nothing is ever said of him in the press. He is the father of three children and I cannot believe that a father just has shown no interest. No statement, nothing at all.
Here is some more news released:
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N36/siddiqui.html
more news at Pakistan News http://www.apakistannews.com/aafia-siddiqui-refuses-us-strip-search-79836
@Dr Aafia was systematically prevented to see her family,
her own brother, though as if nobody should see her, what
has become of her nobody knows, her elder son is known
to be tossed around between Aghan and Pak officials who
apparently refuse his custody, but do we have any info
about the whereabouts of other two kids ?? as for the
father of the kids, he is certainly forced to stay ” out ” of
the affaire. But his attitude is mysterious indeed.
The savage US department.
@ Dr.Aafia’s two other kids are certainly assassinated by
several inhuman evils in that area. What a sacrifice !
I have no words to express my sorrow for her, what ever
the allegations, they are, however, comming from the EVIL,
praised by smaller desi evils, when I compare Aafia with
Pakistanis average female Roshakhayyal,
progressive, big mouth,
barbie looking dolls with their newly discovered pendoo
Indian “impressed ” showbis crap,
they should be dumped into the nuclear waste for another
350 years
LONG-LIVE DR. AAFIA SIDDQUI
DOWN WITH THE USA-INDIAN EVIL
[…] November 21, 2008 by CHUP! Editor – Kalsoom On August 5, 2008, CHUP first reported about Dr. Afia Siddiqui, the Pakistani woman who, along with her three children, disappeared in early 2003. Many, including her family and several human rights groups, claim that Afia was actually Prisoner 650, a prisoner-of-war who was reportedly held without trial in a U.S. prison in Afghanistan. Despite the allegations that Siddiqui was held in U.S. custody, particularly after the FBI in 2004 described her as an “Al Qaeda operative and facilitator who posed a clear and present danger to America,” her whereabouts for the past five years were never confirmed. In July 2008, however, Afia allegedly “reappeared” when she attacked and shot a U.S. military officer in Afghanistan. Afia was then transported to New York, where she was charged with one count of attempting to kill U.S. officers and employees, and one count of assaulting U.S. officers and employees, with a maximum 20 years in prison on each charge, [no charges related to the terrorism allegations have been raised]. On September 4th, media outlets reported that she was indicted on those charges. […]