FBI tags Pak woman as terror suspect! (MERGED)

Rising_Tempest · May 27, 2004, 11:00am

An angelic-looking Pakistani woman with a doctorate in neurological science is among seven “dangerous” Al-Qaeda terror suspects identified by FBI as planners of new attacks on the United States.

Like the other suspects, Aafia Siddiqui, 32, once an award-winning Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student, has the ability to “undertake planning, facilitation and attack against the United States whether it be within the United States itself or overseas,” FBI director Robert Mueller told a news conference on Wednesday.

She is the only woman among the seven named on Wednesday and whose photographs were posted on the FBI website.

Siddiqui is a picture of innocence amongst the dangerous-looking male suspects, but Mueller warned she was an “operative and facilitator” of Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda terror network.

She is believed to have left Boston in January 2003. The FBI believes she is in Pakistan.

The Washington Post on Wednesday linked Siddiqui to Adnan El Shukrijumah, another of the seven suspects who is said to have scouted sites across America that might be vulnerable to attack.

Saudi Arabia-born El Shukrijumah, 28, speaks English well, had lived in the United States for 15 years and has been trying to re-enter America using various passports, Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters.
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abc1234 · May 27, 2004, 11:32am

how the HELL can they malign her like this, do they have any proof?

she is the mother of three children.

argh.

first they bombed afghanistan to catch osama. where the hell is he?

then they bombed iraq for wmd's. where are the freakin wmd's?

and now they are maligning the reputations of the highest achievers of our nation.

Rising_Tempest · May 27, 2004, 11:50am

sometimes i feel that we would be servile poodles forever...we'll progress untill we follow the directives of amreeka nd musharraf says that we have been doing well on economic front nd he knows too that its only coz we have been following amreeka's orders very obediently...the day we stand against that power , that day we'll actually know how much progress we have made nd how much potential we have as a nation ...
i dont know when amreeka stops its ever increasing demands from Pakistan nd is there ny limit to which we can oblige to this power...Pakistan is in quagmire , we have to make a choice now ...
i hope everything gets fine with our country :(

Talwar · May 27, 2004, 11:53am

:rolleyes:

There is no proof except for…

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=483&format=

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Newsweek obtained ``suspicious-activity reports’’ filed by Fleet Bank with the U.S. Treasury Department showing Siddiqui and her now estranged husband, Dr. Mohammed Amjad Khan, made repeated purchases from stores selling military equipment.

 **They ordered from Black Hawk Industries in Chesapeake, Va., and Brigade Quartermasters in Georgia - companies whose inventories include parts for AK-47s and specialized combat equipment, including vests designed for bomb disposal. 

 Khan, a Harvard-trained anesthesiologist, bought body armor, night-vision goggles and military manuals. **

 Fleet tipped off the government to the couple in October 2001. Federal law prohibits bank officials from discussing such reports publicly. 

 In the report, Fleet also noted the couple's ``major purchases'' from airlines and hotels and an $8,000 international wire transfer on Dec. 21, 2001, to a major financial institution in Pakistan under U.S. watch as a source of terrorist transactions, the magazine reported. 

 Two years later, after the capture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, he fingered Siddiqui as an al-Qaeda ``fixer'' who was supposed to help operatives as they entered the United States, according to internal FBI documents cited by Newsweek. 

 Fleet also spotted suspicious money transfers totaling $20,000 from the Saudi government's armed forces account to a man who lived in the same Boston apartment as Siddiqui. His name is Abdullah Al Reshood and he has been questioned by the FBI, according to a source.

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Imdad_Ali · May 27, 2004, 3:16pm

Angelic? She looks like a demon.

Shehenshah · May 29, 2004, 9:20pm

Mystery of Pak terror lady deepens

KARACHI: Aafiya Siddiqui, the Pakistan-born woman suspected of al-Qaeda links whom the FBI has put up in its Most Wanted list, is reported to be already in the custody of US secret agencies for the past one year.

Though the FBI believes her to be in Pakistan, the Online News quoted intelligence sources in Pakistan as saying that though Aafiya had come to Pakistan in January 2003, she had been handed over to US authorities.

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Aafiya stayed with her friend in Islamabad for a few days and later went up to Karachi to see her mother settled there. Soon after landing at Karachi Airport, she was picked up by secret agency personnel and handed over to the FBI.

Aafiya's mother, a resident of Karachi's Gulshan Iqbal area, also confirmed the arrest reports of her daughter, but added that she was threatened and asked to keep mum over the matter.

Mrs Siddiqui denied her daughter's links to any terrorist outfit, saying that Aafiya was a divorced mother of three.

5Abi · May 30, 2004, 12:44pm

where is the link to the article?

underthecross · May 30, 2004, 9:26pm

interesting......

Man!!!! Is she pakistani , chalo humari phir kumbakhti aa gayee...

Shehenshah · May 30, 2004, 9:29pm

oops forgot to add the link but i saw this report in an indian news paper

Goliko · June 12, 2004, 3:53pm

Terror Suspect Aafia Siddiqui

By Martin Finucane, Associated Press Writer | May 28, 2004

BOSTON --

Siddiqui, 32, a native of Pakistan who studied at MIT and Brandeis and was an activist in the Boston area Islamic community, is one of seven people being sought because of their possible connections to al-Qaida as the possibility looms of a terrorist attack this summer.

Authorities have said she returned to Pakistan shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with her then-husband and three children. She then traveled back and forth between Pakistan and the United States before returning to Pakistan a little over a year ago, an attorney for her brother told The Houston Chronicle this week.

Her whereabouts have been a mystery since March 2003, when the FBI issued a global alert for her arrest.

The relatives, whom Sharp wouldn't identify, maintain they haven't seen Siddiqui in 15 months. The FBI also wants to talk to Mohammed Khan, Siddiqui's ex-husband.

The family emphasized that the FBI Web site only seeks to find Siddiqui for questioning and that the FBI has no information indicating Siddiqui was connected to "specific terrorist activities."

But FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that Siddiqui was an "al-Qaida operative and facilitator" who could provide logistical support to other operatives by, for example, arranging for documents or setting up bank accounts.

A senior Pakistani security official told The Associated Press this week that the United States had made no new request for Pakistan to find Siddiqui but one issued last year was still in effect. She had gone underground, the official said, and it wasn't even known if she was still in Pakistan.

Sharp said in the statement that Siddiqui's mother voluntarily met with federal agents and prosecutors in the United States last year. The mother attempted to answer questions and sought information herself on where her daughter might be. Siddiqui's brother and sister also met with federal officials and cooperated fully.

"As always, the Siddiqui family remains willing to cooperate with law enforcement," the statement said.

Sharp said none of the family members wanted to be interviewed by the media. And she declined to name them. But she said she would hold a news conference in Boston on Tuesday to comment further.

Siddiqui's brother and sister have been identified in media reports as Muhammad and Fowzia Siddiqui, an architect who lives in Texas and a doctor. Messages left at listings for Muhammad Siddiqui in Houston weren't immediately returned Friday. Siddiqui's mother, Ismat, reportedly lives in Karachi.

Enforcer · June 12, 2004, 7:09pm

Re: Terror Suspect Aafia Siddiqui

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By Martin Finucane, Associated Press Writer | May 28, 2004