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Aafia Siddiqui Update: "Terrorist Suspect Denies She Tried To Kill Americans," by Ross Goldberg for the New York Sun, August 6 (thanks to Ruth King):
An American-educated Pakistani neuroscientist is denying charges that she tried to murder Americans in Afghanistan.Federal prosecutors in a New York court accused the defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, of attempting to shoot a group of Americans after seizing one of their rifles while she was detained at an Afghan police station. Her attorneys said the idea that a 90-pound woman could get the better of six trained soldiers and FBI agents is "ridiculous." Her attorneys also claimed that America has secretly kept Ms. Siddiqui in custody for the last five years.
According to a complaint released Monday, Ms. Siddiqui, who has alleged ties to Al Qaeda, was arrested in Afghanistan last month after officers observed her loitering near a governor's compound. The complaint said a search of her handbag uncovered documents describing the production of explosives as well as chemical, biological, and radiological weapons. The papers also included descriptions of American landmarks, including some in New York City.
The complaint states that an American soldier put his rifle on the floor next to him, unaware that Ms. Siddiqui was being held behind a curtain nearby. Ms. Siddiqui allegedly grabbed the gun and tried to kill the Americans in the room, but missed as they wrestled it away and shot her in the torso.
Her attorney, Elizabeth Fink, said in court today that the prosecution's account is hard to swallow.
"They put a gun down by their feet, and they didn't realize when the weapon is not there?" she asked at a press conference held outside the courthouse. "Why was an alleged terrorist put behind curtains and not behind bars?"...
The defense is self-contradictory. "Her attorneys said the idea that a 90-pound woman could get the better of six trained soldiers and FBI agents is 'ridiculous.'" But maybe that's just what the soldiers and agents were thinking, and why they were careless. And if a 90-pound woman got hold of a gun, it wouldn't be hard for her to get the better of six trained soldiers and FBI agents.
Posted by Robert at August 6, 2008 11:07 AM
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Okay, so she couldn't "judo chop" these men. But as the old saying goes "God created man, Col. Colt made them equal."
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at August 6, 2008 11:27 AM
Here's how it happens: We treat scum with compassion and humanity, allowing them to treat us with disdain and aggression.
I would like to have had her die of her wounds rather than become a focus for the hand-wringing that is now inevitable.
at August 6, 2008 11:39 AM
Beware of little Women with Guns. Especially if they don't mind dieing.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at August 6, 2008 11:41 AM
I think as this war progresses we will be taking far fewer prisoners.
Just a thought.
Posted by: credit man at August 6, 2008 11:43 AM
Maybe she took on the soldiers and FBI because she figured that this was her last chance to die as a shaheed, or martyr. And if successful in killing a couple, for the glory of Allah, great. If she died without so much touching a gun, then they can't question her on anything. Poor spy's cyanide capsule. Plausible enough.
Posted by: npabga at August 6, 2008 11:43 AM
Okay, so she couldn't "judo chop" these men. But as the old saying goes "God created man, Col. Colt made them equal."
Posted by: Kevin
Exactly! That's why a gun is referred to as an "equalizer".
at August 6, 2008 2:30 PM
stupid lawyers exists even in afganistan. let this man go against a 90lb women with a rifle and see how fast he can run from her without getting blown away.
nice to see how brave this lawyer would be eh!
at August 6, 2008 8:35 PM
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