February 04, 2010

Via CSM

Karachi, Pakistan

Thousands of political and social activists and students across Pakistan on Thursday protested the conviction of Aafia Siddiqui by a Manhattan jury for the attempted murder of US soldiers in Afghanistan.

Siddiqui, a US-educated neuroscientist and Pakistani citizen was found guilty Wednesday. For many Pakistanis, the verdict is another example of the US government’s high-handedness and is expected to fuel anti-American sentiment in a country where Washington's foreign policy is already viewed with suspicion.

“The public’s reaction [to the conviction] can be read as a reaction to drone attacks, travel restrictions, and other discriminatory policies [against Pakistanis],” says Riffat Hussain, a political and defense analyst at Islamabad’s Quaid-e-Azam University.

February 03, 2010

Aafia Siddiqui is guilty, guilty, guilty. Of course, the juice are to blame:

After the verdict was delivered, Siddiqui shouted to the court: "This is a verdict coming from Israel, not America."

No, really. This LA Times article was written before the verdict was announced:

Amina Janjua, an Islamabad human rights activist, said rage over the case could spill into the streets.

"When Pakistanis go wild, they can do anything," Janjua said. "Every second that the U.S. holds our daughter, they are testing the whole nation, testing how much patience we have, how much we can tolerate."

I'd stay away from any location where foreigners congregate in Karachi for the next few days.

No, strike that. I'd be on the lookout for acts of violence right here in the U.S.

I'm serious. And I don't mean riots. I mean, um, more like ......

I'd be lying if I said that I thought this guy was a lone nut. There is organization to this. And just a reminder, Tarek "Abu Sayaba" Mehanna -- sitting in jail on terror charges -- was one of those who made the frequent pilgrimage to New York to attend Aafia's trial.

January 29, 2010

Original post here

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Do it for the akhis on the forums, they will love you and maybe, just maybe I will get a Fatwa?!?!?!

January 28, 2010

hair of the dog hair of your body

Martyr wannabe's believe all their sins will be forgiven in the act of martyrdom. Hence the hangover. Also, most wannabe's shave all their body hair before martyrdom.

January 26, 2010

A supporter of this beotch pointed his finger like a gun and yelled expletives at the jury.

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January 14, 2010

Aafia Siddiqui, an al Qaeda fundraiser and would-be assassin, is boycotting her own New York City trial because there might be J-O-Os on the jury:

"I'm boycotting the trial, just to let all of you know," Aafia Siddiqui said as a judge began jury selection in federal court in Manhattan. "There's too many injustices. ... I'm out of this."

After U.S. District Judge Richard Berman responded, "Thank you, Dr. Siddiqui," she put her head down on the defense table and went silent as prosecutors flashed a photo of her face on a television monitor...

"I don't trust you," she told the judge at one point Wednesday before the potential jurors packed the courtroom. She later complained that she wouldn't get a fair trial if Zionists were allowed on the panel.

February 23, 2009

The pic above is widely circulated on the internet and by the MSM as evidence that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was "tortured" while in US custody. The case has generated outrage all over the Muslim world, and several Taliban and al Qaeda videos show "martyrs" killing in revenge for her alleged mistreatment.

The problem? Dr. Siddiqui's former husband is now claiming that the photo was taken before she disappeared from Pakistan only to turn up years later in Afghanistan:

"He added that Dr Fowzia had similarly threatened him several years ago by taking a picture of Aafia while she was asleep after she injured her upper lip (by a milk bottle) in an accident. Dr Fowzia warned Amjad that if he tried to divorce Aafia, she would use the picture against him alleging him to be an abusive husband. 'It was made to appear in the picture that Aafia was badly injured. Today, the same picture is being circulated in the media to claim that Aafia was tortured for years in Bagram,'” he revealed."

The al Qaeda narrative that Siddiqui is an innocent woman who was abducted by US agents and held for years at Bagram air base where she was systematically raped and tortured as "Prisoner 650" is widely believed. There is no evidence of this, but there is substantial evidence that Siddiqui -- including the testimony of Khalid Shiekh Mohammad -- was a key al Qaeda financier. There is also a good case to be made that Siddiqui is insane, and it looks like that is the line of defense her lawyers may use at her upcoming attempted murder trial.

It is imperative that we counter the falsehoods about Sidiqqi which fuel jihad. Miss Kelly has a two posts essential to those following the case. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.

UPDATE: Good news, it looks like she'll be going to trial after all:

"A federal prosecutor said Monday that two psychiatrists who have examined Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with trying to kill an American soldier and F.B.I. agents while in custody in Afghanistan, said she was not suffering from psychological illness that would render her unfit for trial. That assessment was in contrast to a previous evaluation of Ms. Siddiqui's fitness."

Thanks to Miss Kelly.

August 26, 2008

This story just took another strange twist.

Via The Daily Times

WASHINGTON: US authorities have confirmed that the 11-year old boy they claim to have captured with Dr Aafia Siddiqui in Kabul is her son Ahmed.
According to a report in the Washington Post, in a letter to Siddiqui’s family, US authorities said that photos and DNA tests strongly suggest that the youngster in Afghan custody is Siddiqui’s son Ahmed. The boy is claimed to have been detained on July 18 when Afghan police arrested Siddiqui near a government compound in Ghazni. Siddiqui and her three children disappeared in 2003 in Karachi.

August 21, 2008

Signs that the day of reckoning with Pakistan is fast approaching, or just domestic politics as elected leaders of the world's dumbest "democracy" succomb to mass hysteria? I'd opt for the latter if it wasn't so intricately tied to the former.

AFP:

Pakistan's parliament Thursday demanded the immediate repatriation of a female scientist held in the United States on charges of trying to kill US officials in Afghanistan, officials said.

A resolution moved by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and adopted unanimously by the lower house also demanded immediate information on the whereabouts of Afia Siddiqui's three children, they said.

How big is this? The first point of order a Ministry of Foreign Affairs press briefing today was not about Musharraf's resignation or about the dramatic rise in Taliban terror attacks, it was about what steps Pakistan was taking in securing the release of Aafia Siddiqui.

The thought never crossed their minds that maybe the reason that Aafia Siddiqui and her children have been missing these long years was because she didn't want to be found? She was, after all, fingered by none other than 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shiekh Mohammad as having some role in the al Qaeda network.

August 13, 2008

Thanks to all those who e-mailed me this. A lot of people are focusing on the fact that Aafia Siddiqui had maps of New York City, chemical compounds, guides on how to make WMD, and a Ph.D. in a related field. All very interesting, yes. But making WMD is much harder than most imagine and without some kind of delivery device to get said weapons from Kandahar to NYC, all kind of moot.

And the notion that she or her friends could pull off an attack on Plum Island a la the Nelson DeMille novel? Laughable.

The most important aspect to her arrest is the electronic trail she left linking her to al Qaeda operatives and leaders. I'm guessing her arrest probably had something to do with this, hence the title to this post.

The Blotter has the scoop:

That haul of information has led multiple government sources to describe Siddique, a 36 year-old MIT graduate, as a potential "treasure trove" of information on terrorist supporters, sympathizers or 'sleepers' in the United States and overseas.

"She is the most significant capture in five years," said former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who said she lives up to her reputation as an alleged terrorist 'Mata Hari.' ...

"This is a major haul, a major capture for the FBI," said Kiriakou. "To find someone who has such rich information, computer hard drives, e-mails, that is really a major capture." ...

When nabbed by a team of Afghanistan National Police officers on July 17th, she also had in her possession a one gigabyte digital media storage device - a thumb drive - whose contents included a large trail of emails that authorities are now poring over, sources said. Those e-mails, a source involved in the investigation said, are between "what she described as 'units' and what we would call 'cells'."

Oh, and a note to our paranoid Muslim friends:

Pakistani officials present at the hearing said they had "no information" on the allegations that Siddique had been secretly held prisoner and "no information" to offer on the allegations that their government may have assisted in that capture.

UPDATE: WTF? Ed speculates that maybe Siddiqui's thumb drive might have had something to do with Saleman Abdirahman Dirie. I think his cautionary maybe it's just a coincidence is much more likely. But I'm glad he linked it because otherwise I wouldn't have heard about this:

Less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention a man has been found dead in a Denver hotel room with a container of what authorities initially suspect to be the deadly poison cyanide.

Adding to the intrigue is that the dead man, Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, 29, appears to be from outside the U.S. No passport was found on Dirie, who is believed to have entered the country from Canada.

A large container of a white powdery substance was found in the man’s room on the fourth floor of The Burnsley hotel at 10th and Grant.

UPDATE II: Wow. Dirie apparently left a comment at a blog which indicates he was a jihad supporter. Thanks to Ace.

August 12, 2008

Another day yet another Aifia Siddiqui protest.

Thanks to Miss Kelly who, like me, thinks the Aafia Siddiqui arrest is a much bigger story than the attention its garnering. She writes:

While the Siddiqui case isn't garnering much attention here, it's HUGE in Pakistan, as you know. I can't believe how many Pakistanis believe that she's been "continuously tortured and raped" by Americans for five years at Bagram.

She reprints this:

"But yesterday, US officials vehemently denied that Siddiqui had been in American custody until her recent arrest."

"Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman, called the allegations 'absolutely baseless and false.' A CIA spokesman also denied that she had been detained."

" 'For several years, we have had no information regarding her whereabouts whatsoever,' said Gregory Sullivan, a State Department spokesman on South Asian affairs. 'It is our belief that she . . . has all this time been concealed from the public view by her own choosing.'

A theory that Miss Kelly heard from a colleague and which Newbie keeps coming back to is that Siddiqui was being held by the Pakistani ISI--either in some kind of witness protection program or in some kind of nameless horror that must by a Pakistani detention center--and that she was dumped in Afghanistan after pressure mounted for her release early last month.

Like I've said, I'm not inclined to buy into that story. It seems much more likely to me that she wanted to get caught in order to garner more support for al Qaeda which uses the "US tortures/rapes Muslim women" as justification for spectacular terror attacks. I fully expect that the next successful al Qaeda attack will be done in Siddiqui's name.

I also can't help but wonder if her capture might help explain how we were able to kill "the commander of al Qaeda in Afghanistan", Abu Saeed al-Masri today? It stands to reason that if the two are related then any intel she gave us must have been fresh enough to use, and therefore, contrary to the widespread conspiracy theories in the Muslim world, she has not been in either our or the Pakistani's custody until very recently.