Afghanistan releases al-Qaeda suspect's son to Pakistan

Where he will be as free as a bird, living with his family. As for 10 and 13 year old Christian girls abducted, raped, and forced into conversion, the Pakistani government is having a real hard time deciding on whether to return them to their family.

"Afghanistan frees al-Qaeda suspect's young son," from AP, September 15:

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An al-Qaeda suspect's 12-year-old son, who was taken into custody with his mother and held for two months, was handed over to Pakistan on Monday to be returned to relatives there.

The boy's mother, Aafia Siddiqui, was detained outside the governor's house in Afghanistan's Ghazni province in July on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda and taken to the U.S. military base there. The Pakistani-American citizen was then flown to New York to face charges of assault on U.S. personnel in Ghazni.

The U.S. indictment alleges that during Siddiqui's interrogation in Ghazni, she picked up a soldier's rifle, announced her "desire to kill Americans" and fired at U.S. soldiers and FBI agents. She was wounded by return fire.

Her son Ali Hassan, also a dual American-Pakistani national, was with his mother at the time of her arrest and has been in Afghan custody ever since.

A spokesman for Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry, Sultan Ahmed Baheen, said the boy has spent the last 10 days in a "guest house" of Afghanistan's intelligence service. Before that, the ministry said he was in the custody of the prosecutor who deals with minors.

Ali Hassan was expected to arrive in Pakistan later Monday and be handed over to his mother's relatives.

Siddiqui, 36, came to the United States in 1990 and studied at the University of Houston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she got a bachelor's degree in biology in 1995. She later studied neuroscience as a graduate student at Brandeis University.

She vanished in Pakistan in 2003...

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If she weren't under arrest in Afg'stan, mommy would be working for and be a trusted confidant of the Barry Hussein's presidential campaign.

Birds of a feather (including Jeremiah Wright) (who hate America) stick together.

A boy needs to be with his family.
That's all you'll hear from Muslims.

As for the girls being kidnapped and forced into marriage and conversion: it's the example set by the great one - Mohammed. If he did it, it can't be bad.

If the insanity of unlimited Mohammedan immigration to the US weren't enough, there's the added insanity of citizens of Mohammedan countries being allowed to hold US passports - with the result that they get more rights as captives of US troops than they would had they not held the US citizenship part of it.

It's as ridiculous as the Yemeni/Saudi enemy combatant at Gitmo who was sent to the US to face a trial in a normal court just because unlike his fellow inmates, he was lucky enough to be born in the US.

Stuff you can't make up.

Siddiqui is usually referred to in American newspaper accounts as "neuroscientist Siddiqui." Apparently having received a degree in the subject from Brandeis a decade ago or more, makes the epithet permanently relevant.

I'm sure the mom has taught little Ali all the right lessons. Now he can go to Pak and finish his education. He will probably graduate at the top of his class from the Pakistan University of Jihad. His mama will be proud...

I worked with an MIT grad once. She wasn't a Muslim but she was a dolt.

The 13 year old son can make a good suicide bombing. As long as his father explodes his son in Dar Al Suicide Bombing, I have no problem with that.