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Pakistan demands access to al Qaeda suspect in U.S. | Reuters
Pakistan demands access to al Qaeda suspect in U.S.
By Aftab Borka
KARACHI, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Pakistan has demanded consular access to a Pakistani woman with suspected links to al Qaeda who is due to be arraigned in New York on Tuesday on charges of attempting to murder U.S. troops and FBI agents in Afghanistan.
The New York Times newspaper said Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained neuroscientist, has links to at least two of 14 suspected high-level al Qaeda members held at Guantanamo Bay.
The story of her arrest is one of the strangest to emerge since the Sept. 11, 2001 al Qaeda attacks on the United States.
Siddiqui was brought to the United States on Monday and is due to be formally accused before a New York court of trying to kill U.S. soldiers and FBI agents at an Afghan police station last month, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington made the request for consular access on Monday, Pakistan’s state-run news agency said.
Afghan police arrested Siddiqui after becoming suspicious of her behaviour outside the provincial governor’s compound in the city of Ghazni on July 17, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Police found documents describing bomb-making and excerpts from the book, Anarchist’s Arsenal, as well as papers describing U.S. landmarks and substances sealed in bottles and jars.
The next day, U.S. soldiers and two FBI agents arrived at the Afghan police station where Siddiqui was being held.
“The personnel entered a second floor meeting room, unaware that Siddiqui was being held there, unsecured, behind a curtain,” the department said on its Web site. A U.S. warrant officer placed his rifle on the ground, next to the curtain.
“Shortly after the meeting began, the captain heard a woman yell from the curtain and, when he turned, saw Siddiqui holding the warrant officer’s rifle and pointing it directly at the captain,” the Justice Department statement said.
“The interpreter seated closest to Siddiqui lunged at her and pushed the rifle away as Siddiqui pulled the trigger. Siddiqui fired at least two shots but no one was hit. The warrant officer returned fire with a 9 mm service pistol and fired approximately two rounds at Siddiqui’s torso, hitting her at least once.”
Despite being shot, Siddiqui continued to struggle and struck and kicked the officer while shouting in English that she wanted to kill all Americans and then passed out, the statement said.
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“Dr. Aafia’s case is a reminder of the grave injustice done to God knows how many Pakistanis in U.S. detention facilities in Bagram in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, who have been listed as missing” an HRCP statement said. (Additional reporting by Imtiaz Shah in Karachi and Sher Ahmad in Ghazni; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Paul Tait)
what lies! She was picked up by agencies and now she is about to be indicted for attempting to kill US soldiers, she is being reported to be “roaming” in Afghanistan.
This is what brains can come up to keep someone in jails as long as they want it, cook the stories, indict them!