(Aafia Siddiqui) Pakistan neuroscientist given 86 years for shooting at US agents

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

A New York court has sentenced to 86 years in prison Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist trained at an American university who was named as one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists. The case has prompted outrage in her native country.

Siddiqui, 38, was convicted earlier this year of two charges of attempted murder after she shot at US soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan in 2008 as she tried to escape from custody. Her case has drawn pleas from the Pakistani government for her release and divided legal opinion after Siddiqui claimed that she was abducted by US agents and held incommunicado in Afghanistan for five years.

Although the FBI accused her of supporting al-Qaida she was not charged with terrorism. However prosecutors alleged that when she was arrested in Afghanistan two years ago she was found with instructions on how to assemble bombs and weapons and a list of New York city landmarks.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/23/pakistan-scientist-86-years-shooting

[cosmicone]

1. Good n/t

[pmorlan1]

2. The rest of the story...

Maybe one day we will actually hear the rest of the story about Siddiqui and her missing children.

[Igel]

3. Maybe.

But probably not if she and her relatives have anything to do with it.

[The abyss]

4. In February of this year the DU board discussed her conviction

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4254968


I believe her sentencing was supposed to have occurred early this spring 2010?

Another mock trial of which I am so proud! :sarcasm:

So many lies and bull shit to keep track of.....

[annm4peace]

5. WE are a sick country run my sick and demented people

our tax dollars pay for this crap. Dr Siddiqui probably won't last the next 2 years.

Her child that was a baby when she and 3 of her children were kidnapped by our government has never been found and was probably killed by those that kidnapped them.

She is another political prisoner held in prison. We will keep calling for her release.

86 for shooting at a soldier.. she had been shot, beaten up and they want to say she could hold up a gun and shot at others. sick, sick, sick. Our Government had her tortured, raped and held in a ghost prison for 4 years before her name was released to the red cross.

FBI can make up lies about anybody, as long as it gets someone promoted they will prosecute, even if it is a single mother with 3 young children.

[Green_Lantern]

6. and this is why right-wingers opposed giving accused Al Qaeda trials..

Because some people would still say there was some conspiracy when even a freaking legitimate jury trial found someone guilty.

Some people on here would defend Satan himself.