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Captive 'a terror info treasure trove'
JAILED Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui, charged with trying to murder US officials in Afghanistan, is a "terrorist Mata Hari" and "treasure trove" of information on al-Qaeda, US officials say.

"She is the most significant capture in five years," former CIA agent John Kiriakou said to ABC News, adding that she lives up to her reputation as an "alleged terrorist Mata Hari".
Make sure ev'ryone knows that she's singing like a canary ...
Siddiqui, 36, a frail mother of three who graduated with honours from the prestigious Massachussetts Institute of Technology, was arrested July 17 in Afghanistan, extradited to New York August 4 and indicted the next day on attempted murder. She was wounded during an alleged shootout with FBI agents and US military officers when she was questioned in Afghanistan.
Shootout during interogation. WTF?
A US court put her in medical care. She was on a 2004 US list of suspects linked to al-Qaeda.

When she was arrested in Afghanistan, she was in possession of bomb-making instructions, suspicious liquids and, according to ABC, "a one gigabyte digital media storage device" containing emails between terrorist cells.

Citing sources involved in the investigation, ABC said Siddiqui was also carrying maps and information concerning potential "targets in New York City that included the subway, Times Square and the Statute of Liberty". As well, she carried "documents detailing United States military assets" and detailed chemical, biological and radiological weapon information.

The information found on Siddiqui has led government sources to describe her as a potential "treasure trove" of information on terrorist supporters, sympathisers or sleeper cells in the US and overseas, according to ABC.

Siddiqui's lawyers said their client was held captive for five years - possibly in a secret US or allied prison - and that the attempted murder charges against her were invented as a pretext to bring her to US territory.
Posted by: phil_b 2008-08-13
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