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| My children were tortured, this trial is a sham: Aafia |
| 2010-01-21 |
| Pakistani citizen Aafia Siddiqui has told jurors at her trial that she was held in a secret prison in Afghanistan, her children were tortured, and the case against her is a sham. On Tuesday, Siddiqui was thrown out of the New York courtroom where her trail is being held after shouting the remarks at the jurors. The MIT-educated neuroscientist is currently on trial, facing charges of trying to kill US soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan in 2008 and connections with Al-Qaeda operatives. She was ejected from her federal court trial after her second outburst, Bloomberg reported. "Since I'll never get a chance to speak," she said in the courtroom. "If you were in a secret prison, or your children were tortured..." She insisted that she knew nothing about a plan to carry out terrorist attacks on targets in New York, The New York Daily News reported. "Give me a little credit, this is not a list of targets of New York," she said. "I was never planning to bomb it. You're lying." Siddiqui vanished in Karachi, Pakistan with her three children on March 30, 2003. The next day it was reported in local newspapers that she had been taken into custody on terrorism charges. US officials allege Aafia Siddiqui was seized on July 17, 2008 by Afghan security forces in Ghazni province and claim that documents, including formulas for explosives and chemical weapons, were found in her handbag. They say that while she was being interrogated, she grabbed a US warrant officer's M-4 rifle and fired two shots at FBI agents and military personnel but missed and that the warrant officer then fired back, hitting her in the torso. Man, they could've saved themselves a lotta aggravation if the WO could shoot better... She was brought to the United States to face charges of attempted murder and assault. Siddiqui faces 20 years in prison if convicted. However, human rights organizations have cast doubt on the accuracy of the US account of the event. Of course they do ... Many political activists believe she was Prisoner 650 of the US detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, where they say she was tortured for five years until one day US authorities announced that they had found her in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Dear Aafia: There are several nuances of American life of which you should be aware, for the next time you are free: although every single U.S. Attorney has at one time or another felt he should have the right to pick up a pistol and shoot at an FBI agent, that is just something we do not do. Successful criminals do not shoot at FBI agents, successful criminals ride around in chauffered limos, do not talk onto the telephone, nor send emails, and they are quiet in Court. You should take up another line of work, you do not have what it takes to be a successful criminal. A "successful criminal" is an oxymoron, but you are a regular moron. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2010-01-21 12:28 |
| #6 Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Yummy. /Cartman |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-21 10:53 |
| #5 Once they had squeezed any data out of this woman, she truly needed to get acute lead poisoning and never to be seen again. No way in heck she should have even been put in the books. Too damn dangerous. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-01-21 08:45 |
| #4 This trail is a sham---she, along with every other Muslim "activist", should be shot as illegal combatant. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-01-21 03:32 |
| #3 said she 'got better' |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-01-21 02:24 |
| #2 she was tortured for five years I heard she was turned into a newt. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-01-21 02:11 |
| #1 We are deliberately intentionally wilfully NOT contacting Madonna fans from PENN STATE, aren't we, AAFIA??? D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, BY DEFINITION I AM FORCED TO CONCLUDE THAT AAFIA DEMANDS TO BE SENT TO GUANTANAMO! But I digress .... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-21 00:54 |