Nadene Goldfoot
Aafia Siddiqui (Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist convicted of multiple felonies in 2010 and serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, over an alleged assault on U.S. personnel while detained at an Afghan detention center. She's now 50 years old, having already served 12 years with 74 more to go. At age 50, this is a life-time sentence . Her case has been described as "one of the most troubling in the sordid history" of the War on Terror.
She's the reason, supposedly, that hostages were taken on a Saturday morning at a synagogue in Texas, The hostage-taker wanted to free Aafia Siddiqui from a Texas prison. This was a well educated Pakistani woman who was charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and was convicted and sentenced to 86 years in prison in the USA.
Not included in her sentence was this fact. According to US investigators, Baluchi, her 2nd husband, told the FBI that al-Qaeda had set up a biological weapons lab and he asked Aafia Siddiqui (who has a biology degree from MIT) advice on how long it would take to develop such weapons and whether the man in charge was capable of developing the weapons. Siddiqui replied that she "was willing to participate in a biological weapons (BW) project if al-Qaida tasked her to do so".
Imam Jeconiah Abdullah Taalib Faaruuq’s Pro-Terrorist Remarks (March 6, 2010) and Qaradhawi were men who spoke against the USA and were for terrorism and praised terrorist acts and people like Siddiqui. in Boston. Her sentence fired them up. Qaradawi hated Jews and spoke about it constantly. He had to have given Siddiqui that same hatred. Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family. For a period from 1990, she studied in the United States. She attended MIT with a full scholarship and obtained a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2001. She returned to Pakistan for a time following the 9/11 attacks and again in 2003 during the war in Afghanistan. Khalid Sheikh Muhammad named her a courier and financier for Al-Qaeda, and she was placed on the FBI Seeking Information – Terrorism list; she remains the only woman to have been featured on the list.
Counter-terrorism groups have dubbed her "Lady al-Qaeda" and U.S. officials once described her as "The Most Wanted Woman in the World". Counter-terrorism groups have dubbed her "Lady al-Qaeda" and U.S. officials once described her as "The Most Wanted Woman in the World".
Siddiqui was shot and severely wounded at the police compound. Her American interrogators said she grabbed a rifle from behind a curtain and began shooting at them. Siddiqui has denied this and said she simply stood up to see who was on the other side of the curtain and startled the soldiers, one of whom then shot her. She received medical attention for her wounds at Bagram Air Base and was flown to the US to be charged in a New York City federal court with attempted murder and armed assault on US officers and employees.
The government had accused her of "faking mental illness", as they denied she had been kidnapped, despite other psychologists saying she was mentally ill and unfit to stand trial. After receiving psychological evaluations and therapy, the judge agreed with the government psychiatrists declared her mentally fit to stand trial. Siddiqui interrupted the trial proceedings with vocal outbursts and was ejected from the courtroom several times. The jury convicted her on all charges in February 2010,
Siddiqui came to the United States on a student visa in 1990 for undergraduate and graduate education and eventually settled in Massachusetts. In 1995, she agreed to a marriage arranged by her mother to Karachi-born anesthesiologist Amjad Mohammed Khan just out of medical school and whom she had never seen. The marriage ceremony was conducted over the telephone. Khan then came to the US, and the couple lived first in Lexington, Massachusetts, and then in the Mission Hill neighbourhood of Roxbury, Boston, where he worked as an anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She gave birth to a son, Muhammad Ahmed, in 1996, and to a daughter, Mariam Bint-e Muhammad, in 1998. They are now 26 and 24 years old.
While completing the requirements for her master's degree and her PhD in neuroscience in less than four years, she found time to marry and start a family, and volunteer with the Muslim Student Association and Al-Kifah Refugee Center, proselytizing, urging greater religious observance among Muslims, and doing charity work. Immediately following the 9/11 attacks she returned to Pakistan but then returned to America where her husband was completing his board exams.
Later, she divorced her husband She married again to Ammar al-Baluchi, also known as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali (February 2003 – present)]and in March 2003 disappeared with her 3 young children, shortly after the arrest in Pakistan of her 2nd husband's uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged chief planner of the 11 September attacks. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a Pakistani Islamist militant held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism-related charges. He was named as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks" in the 9/11 Commission Report.
Khalid Mohammed gave her up quickly,and she was a relative. He reportedly mentioned Siddiqui's name while he was being interrogated, and shortly thereafter she was added to the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list.
Ammar Al-Baluchi, her 2nd husband, is a Pakistani citizen in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Charges against him include "facilitating the 9/11 attackers, acting as a courier for Osama bin Laden and plotting to crash a plane packed with explosives into the U.S. consulate in Karachi." She had married into quite the terrorist family.
An outraged Siddiqui circulated an announcement with a scornful note deriding Pakistan for "officially" joining "the typical gang of our contemporary Muslim governments", closing her email with a quote from the Quran warning Muslims not to take Jews and Christians as friends.
She wrote three guides for teaching Islam, expressing the hope in one: "that our humble effort continues ... and more and more people come to the [religion] of Allah until America becomes a Muslim land."
She also took a 12-hour pistol training course at the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club, mailed US military manuals to Pakistan and moved from her apartment after the FBI agents visited the university looking for her.
Peter Bergen of CNN has described her as an "icon for terrorists" and notes she is "used as a rationale for terrorism against Americans" such as in the Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis. that just happened Saturday on the 15th. Current Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed support for freeing Siddiqui on multiple occasions. The Pakistani Senate has unanimously passed resolution no. 399, calling for Dr. Aafia's repatriation to Pakistan.
This means that Pakistan backs her terrorism against the USA.
The FBI on Sunday identified Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British national, as the hostage-taker. He was shot and killed when they rushed in. Malik had been about to shoot the hostages when one threw a chair at him and the 3 ran were able to run out quickly after about 11 hours of being held. He had mental health issues. Anyone deciding to go into a synagogue to take hostages would. He told the 4 men that Jews could do anything and taking them meant that they would get Aafia out. Aafia was known to be a very strong anti-Semite. He was a man who had believed all the stories he had heard about Jews and how they ran the world, etc. He wasn't a great planner, going into a synagogue known to be broadcasting their service on TV because of Covid, and people could be watching for 1 1/2 hours as he drew his gun and held them. The rabbi had thought he was just a homeless man and had invited him in, making sure he was comfortable. Luckily, the 4 had had a class in just this situation and were prepared as one could be not expecting it to ever happen.
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Update: 1/19/22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgzGmtXDbqhLHmNXZFqMTzVjhfKlg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed
https://www.facebook.com/globe/posts/imam-abdullah-faaruuq-is-an-unapologetic-throwback-a-man-who-distrusts-the-estab/10153637804913258/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammar_al-Baluchi
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