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A Brief Timeline of Aafia’s Case

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– March 18, 2003: the FBI issues an alert requesting information about Aafia;

– March 29: UPI reports that the FBI believes Aafia may be an Al Qaeda “fixer,” transferring money to support “terrorist” operations;

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– March 30: Aafia disappears en route to the airport for a flight to Rawalpindi;

– April 3: CNN reports that Al Qaeda figure Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (arrested levitra buy March 1) mentioned Aafia during interrogation; Pakistani authorities deny any knowledge of her whereabouts;

– April 4: the FBI denies that it captured and is detaining Aafia;

– May 26: John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller cite reports that Al Queda plans an attack on the US in the summer or fall; Aafia is named as an Al Qaeda “operative and facilitator” and is one of seven Al Qaeda members being sought;

– May 28, 2004: Pakistan’s Interior Ministry confirms that Aafia was turned over to US authorities in 2003 after it was unable to establish any links she may have had with Al Qaeda;

– A 2006 Amnesty International report includes Aafia as one of many of the “disappeared” in the “war on terror;”

– A 2007 Ghost Prisoner Human Rights Watch report said that Aafia “may have once been held” in secret CIA detention;

– A February 2008 Asian Human Rights Commission report said Aafia was brought to Karachi and severely tortured to secure her compliance as a government witness against Khalid Shiekh Mohammed;

metronidazole online style=”margin-bottom: 0in;”>– July 7, 2008: UK journalist Yvonne Ridley identifies Aafia as “Prisoner 650? at the US Bagram, Afghanistan torture-prison;

– July 11: US Lt. Col. Rumi Nielson-Green denies that any women are being held at Bagram;

– July 31: the FBI tells Aafia’s brother that she’s in US custody;

– August 4: a DOJ press release says that Afghanistan National Police arrested Aafia in Ghazni on July 17 and that she was wounded the next day while trying to shoot US Army personnel;

– August 6: US Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis orders Aafia be held without bail; her court-appointed lawyer, Elizabeth Fink, says charges against her are “absurd;” a bail hearing was set for August 11 and another for August 18 to determine if she should be tried;

– August 12: the Washington Pakistani embassy formally requests that Aafia be repatriated to Pakistan;

– August 13: the US military in Afghanistan denies it ever held Aafia in detention and that an unnamed female prisoner was someone else;

– September 12: according to a report in MIT’s The Tech, court documents released today indicate that Aafia “was diagnosed with chronic depressive type psychosis;”

– September 23: Judge Richard Berman enters a “not guilty” plea on behalf of Aafia; she refuses to come to court because doing so requires she be strip-searched; he sets December 17 as the next hearing date to determine her fitness to stand trial; he also sets March 9, 2009 as a tentative trial date;

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– September 29: World Net Daily reports that for the “first time since 9/11, counterterrorism field agents have been authorized to spy on young Muslim men and women – including American citizens – who have traveled to Pakistan without any specific evidence (suggesting) wrongdoing;”

– October 2: Aafia is moved to the Carswell Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX for psychiatric evaluation; in vain, her lawyer pleaded that she not be sent because she urgently needs medical treatment;

– October 6: Pakistani senators Mushahid Hussain Syed, Sadia Abbasi Mehmood, and SM Zafar met with Aafia; Faqir Saeed of the Pakistani embassy as well; she tells them of her ordeal – that she was abducted in 2003, given an injection, found herself in a cell, and was forced to sign papers and confess to things she didn’t do; her children’s lives were threatened and she was abused grievously;

– November 17: Judge Richard Berman indicates that a psychiatric evaluation indicates that Aafia is “not competent to proceed as a result of her mental disease, which renders her unable to understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against her;”

– December 17: the next scheduled date (in New York District Court) to determine if Aafia is fit to stand trial;

– March 9, 2009: the tentative date for Aafia’s trial to begin.

The US Bagram, Afghanistan Torture-Prison

After her abduction, Aafia disappeared into Bagram hell and was known only as “Prisoner 650.” Then later, by released prisoners, as the “Gray Lady of Bagram” because of her screams they heard for years.

At one time, Bagram (north of Kabul at the US air base) held twice as many prisoners as Guantanamo and likely still holds hundreds. They’re amoxil generic crammed into wire cages, routinely tortured, forced to sleep on floor mats, and have buckets for latrines, or at least did until recently. Many prisoners are held secretly, have been there for years, have no access to lawyers, or any knowledge of the allegations against them. Most, perhaps all, are innocent victims and guilty only of being Muslims at the wrong time in the wrong place.

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What’s known about Bagram comes from released or transfered prisoners who got access to counsel. In early 2008, The New York Times also reported that the International Committee of the Red Cross filed a confidential complaint with US authorities charging that its detainees were held incommunicado for weeks or months in isolation cells and subjected to cruel treatment (torture) in violation of international law.

In February 2005, The London Guardian reported that a prisoner named Mustafa was blindfolded, handcuffed, gagged, and forced to bend down over a table by three US soldiers. They then “forcibly rammed a stick up my rectum….I could not stop screaming when this happened.”

Another case involved Wesam Abdulrahman Ahmed Al Deemawi. For over a 40 days, he was threatened with dogs, stripped and photographed “in shameful and obscene positions,” placed in a cage with a hook and hanging rope, and hung on it blindfolded for two days. Both men were never charged and were later released.

Other prisoners were beaten, chained, hung from the ceiling by their wrists, and subjected to numerous other tortures and indignities – for months or years. In some cases so horrifically they died. Aafia and other women were (and still are) at Bagram and other US torture- prisons (including torture-ships at sea), according to British journalist Yvonne Ridley: “There are many Muslim women in the captivity of American forces and if (people remain) silent, (they’ll) lose their sisters forever.” Some are treated even worse than Aafia.

Ridley wrote about Bagram’s “Prisoner 650? and her ordeal of torture and repeatedly being raped for over four years. “The cries of (this) helpless woman echoed (with such torment) in the jail that (it) prompted prisoners to go on hunger strike.” Ridley called her a “gray lady (because) she (was) almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her. This would never happen to a Western woman.” It did to Aafia, other Muslim women as well, and their ordeal continues horrifically.

US and International Law on Prisoners of War and Enforced Disappearances

US and international law are clear and unequivocal on prisoner detentions and their treatment. America under George Bush defiles it, and, given the rogue team he’s assembled, the Obama administration (with or without Guantanamo) promises little or no change. These practices are grievous crimes of war and against humanity and should never be tolerated against anyone for any reason. Yet they persist.

The US War Crimes Act (1996) defines these offenses as grave breaches under Online Viagra Shops the Geneva Conventions (1949) and violations of its Common Article 3. It states in part:

….”the following acts are prohibited at any time and in any place….:

– violence to life and person (including) murder, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

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– ….humiliating and degrading treatment;”

– sentencing or executing detainees “without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees….recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples;” and

– assuring wounded and sick are (properly) cared for.

The US Army order viagra Field Manual 27-10 is also explicit on the rule of law. It incorporates the Nuremberg Principles prohibiting crimes against humanity, and specifically obligates soldiers to disobey illegal orders or be subject to prosecution under international law. Paragraph 498 states that any person, military or civilian, who commits a crime under international law bears responsibility and may be punished. Paragraph 499 defines a “war crime.” Paragraph 509 denies the defense of superior orders in the commission of a crime, and paragraph 510 denies the defense of an “act of state.”

Under Article VI of the Constitution (the supremacy clause), international law is part of domestic law, and US presidents take an oath under Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution….” Further, Article II, Section 3 requires the president to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully exercised.”

International human rights law also strictly prohibits secret detentions. Under Principle 6 of the (May 1989) UN Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions:

“Governments shall ensure that persons deprived of their liberty are (to be) held in officially recognised places of custody, and that accurate information on their custody and whereabouts, including transfers, is made promptly available to their relatives and lawyers or other persons of confidence.”

US and international laws leave no ambiguity on torture or its seriousness when practiced. The (1949) Third Geneva Convention’s Article 13 (on the Treatment of Prisoners of War) states:

Detainees “must at all times be humanely treated. Any unlawful act or omission by the Detaining Power causing death or seriously endangering the health of a prisoner of war in its custody is prohibited….(these persons) must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation….”

Third Geneva also prohibits physical or mental torture, all other forms of coercion, collective punishment, corporal punishments, and any type of violence. These acts are “war crimes.” Various other US and international laws also prohibit them, yet they’re official US policy, so far with impunity.

In December 1992, the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance. It states that:

“any act of enforced disappearance is an Viagra online buy offence to human dignity.” It “places the persons subjected thereto outside the protection of the law and inflicts severe suffering on them and their families. It constitutes a violation of the rules of international law guaranteeing, inter alia (among other things), the right to recognition as a person before the law, the right to liberty and security of the person, and the right not to be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment….No state shall practice, permit or tolerate enforced disappearances” and must terminate any such acts “in any territory under its jurisdiction.” Such practices are crimes of war and against humanity.

In 2005, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHR&GJ, New York University School of Law) published a report titled: “Fate and Whereabouts Unknown: Detainees in the “War on Terror.” It presented “factual summaries of (28) individuals who may be in secret (US) detention sites” and included known information about Aafia at the time.

CHR&GJ said enforced disappearances happen “when individuals are deprived of their liberty by state agents and the state fails to provide information about their fate or whereabouts; through these actions, detainees are placed outside the protection of law.”

“Disappearances” include these practices:

– individuals (often unidentified) held in secret US-run or controlled “black sites;”

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– individuals “extraordinarily renditioned” to “black” or other sites; and

– individuals held in conflict areas and not properly registered and/or identified, Buy Prozac online without prescription such as CIA “ghost prisoners” on US military facilities like at Bagram.

United States of America v. Aafia Siddiqui

On September 2, the Justice Department (DOJ) indicted Aafia “for attempting to kill United States Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges.” On September 4, she was arraigned before Judge Richard Berman in US District Court cheap levitra generic for the Southern District of New York.

Michael Garcia, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, stated (in a September 2 press release) that on July 18, buy penicillin 2008, “a team of United States servicemen and law enforcement officers, and others assisting them, attempted to interview Aafia Siddiqui in Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she had been detained by local police the day before….unbeknownst to the United States interview team, unsecured, behind a curtain — Siddiqui obtained one of the United States Army officer’s M-4 rifles and attempted to fire it, and did fire it, at another United States Army officer and other members of the United States interview team….

Siddiqui then assaulted one of the United States Army interpreters, as he attempted to obtain the M-4 rifle from her. Siddiqui subsequently assaulted one of the FBI agents and one of the United States Army officers, as they attempted to subdue her.”

Garcia said nothing about years of torture and rape at Bargram or that this frail, weakened, 110 pound woman was confronted by three low price levitra US Army officers, two FBI agents, and two Army interpreters, yet inexplicably managed to assault three of them, get one of their rifles, open fire at close range, hit no one, and only she was severely wounded. As her attorney put it:

“Picture this woman who is very tiny (and extremely frail and weakened from her ordeal), and ask yourself how she engaged in armed conflict….with six (armed and well-trained) military men, how did this happen? And how did she get buy pfizer viagra online | buy cialis pills online | buy levitra vardenafil shot? I think you can answer that, can’t you (and question the absurdity of DOJ’s charges against her)?

Garcia outlined, but didn’t indict, on the above-listed allegations about specific “cells,” handwritten notes about a “mass casualty attack,” constructing “dirty bombs,” and using various devices and means to deliver them. It was also alleged that before 9/11 she travelled to Liberia where she was involved in illegal diamond trading to support Al Qaeda and then opened a Baltimore post office box for one of its members. None of these claims are credible or showed up in her indictment.

Count One

Attempted Murder of United States Nationals by obtaining a US Army Officer’s M-4 rifle and attempting to fire and firing it at him, two other US Interview Team members, and repeatedly stating her intent and desire to kill Americans.

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Count Two

Attempted Murder of United States Officers and Employees in the same manner while they were engaged in and on account of the performance of their official duties.

Count 424 buy viagra Three

Armed Assault of United States Officers and Employees in the same manner.

Count Four

Discharge of A Firearm During (a) Crime of Violence as described above.

Count Five

Assault of United States Officers and Employees as described above.

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Count Six

(Further charges of) Assault of United States Officers and Employees as described above.

Count Seven

(More charges of) Assault of United States Officers and Employees as described above.

Aafia’s Deteriorating Health

In response to British MP Lord Nazir’s letter on Aafia’s whereabouts, US authorities confirmed that she’s incarcerated at Carswell Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX (pursuant to buy cheap levitra an October 1, 2008 US District Court, NY judicial directive) where she’s undergoing psychiatric evaluation, but not getting desperately needed medical attention.

Nazir earlier raised questions about her detention and said “she (was) physically tortured and continuously raped by the officers at the (Bagram) prison” – for over four years. He now wants her cheap acomplia immediately released and repatriated to Pakistan after it was learned she’s held Kamagra jelly on dubious charges plus all the horrific treatment she endured – yet is guilty of nothing.

Aafia is in deplorable condition and, according to Judge Berman, not in a correct state of mind to stand trial. On August 7, 2008, Iqbal Haider, Co-chairperson of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed concern about her. He called it shocking and of grave concern buy proscar that pictures of her show a beat-up frail and helpless woman, the effects of years of torture, abuse, and continuous rape. There are dark circles under her eyes, a badly repaired broken nose, “made up” teeth and crumbled lips, and overall “a picture of a severely dehydrated, sick person almost as if on the death bed. It shows the inhumane brutality of an apparently civilised nation by the administration of a country which claims to be much civilised.”

According to HRCP and Aafia’s family, her physical condition is deplorable, and she badly needs immediate medical treatment outside the Carswell prison where it’s generic levitra price not given. “Her wound was oozing blood,” and her clothes were soaked in it. Earlier in custody, one of her kidneys was removed, yet her abdominal pain persists. She has large stitches down her torso from the surgery, negligently done, and may be suffering from internal bleeding. Her teeth were removed. Her nose was broken and improperly reset. Her gunshot wound was incompetently dressed, and her overall condition is dire and life-threatening.

This poor woman was savaged by a criminal state operating outside the law viagra drugs online for political advantage. Her outrageous treatment continues. Her son, Ahmed (a US citizen), is being detained in Afghanistan, but the whereabouts of her other two children is unknown.

A Final Comment

Post-9/11, the Bush administration:

– Online buy Viagra declared permanent war without cause;

– ravaged Iraq and Afghanistan;

– incited and/or engaged in other direct and proxy wars;

– militarized the country;

– enacted repressive police state laws;

– trashed the rule of law;

– made human and civil rights a nonstarter;

– defiled every human dignity imaginable;

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– institutionalized illegal spying and electoral theft;

– made torture official US policy;

– criminalized dissent;

– waged war on working Americans;

– engineered the largest ever wealth transfer to the rich;

– turned government into a crime syndicate;

– looted the national treasury;

– bankrupted the nation;

– criminally defrauded the public; and

– waged a global jihad against Islam.

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Aafia is one of its most aggrieved. She’s been destroyed physically and emotionally. Her former being no longer exists. Her survival is in jeopardy, yet she remains incarcerated, has been indicted, will be tried, likely convicted, and may spend the rest of her life in prison. And for what? For her faith, devoutness, ethnicity, humble charity, all at the wrong time in America. The message to everyone is clear. We’re all Aafia Siddiquis.

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre of Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday through Friday at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national topics. All programs are archived for easy listening.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11378

Post-9/11, the “war on terror” has been a jihad against Islam, the colonizers v. the colonized, or what Edward Said called “the familiar (America, Europe, us) and the strange (the Orient, East, them).” Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is one of its most tragic, aggrieved, and ravaged victims. Her ordeal continues horrifically.

Boston Magazine’s Katherine Oxment asked: “Who’s afraid of Aafia Siddiqui? She went to MIT and Brandeis, married a (physician, lived in Boston), cared for her children….raised money for charities….did other volunteer work, hosted play groups in her apartment, (is) deeply religious….distribute(d) Korans to inmates in area prisons,” and did nothing out of the ordinary. (She) “was a normal woman living a normal American life. Until the FBI called her a terrorist….a high-profile Al Qaeda operative,” but we’ve seen these charges before, and each time they were bogus. They’re egregiously so against Aafia – a woman guilty only of being Muslim at the wrong time in America or elsewhere if you’re on Washington’s target list.

Against her and others, no evidence exists so prosecutors invent it. Most (or key parts) is kept classified, unavailable to the defense, and trials are judicial equivalents of circuses. Witnesses are enlisted, pressured, coerced, and/or bought off to cooperate. Proceedings are carefully orchestrated. Due process is effectively denied, and levitra 20 mg side effects juries are intimidated to convict the innocent for political advantage.

The dominant media Kamagra jelly cooperate. Using information from Washington Post writer, Douglas Farah, and other sources, writer Lindsey Worth of FMS, Inc. referred to “the mysterious Aafia Siddiqui….allegedly Al Qaeda’s only female leader” in connecting her to “the Al Queda diamond operation” in West Africa.

The Times Online calls Aafia “Al-Qaeda woman,” and for ABC News she’s “Mata Hari” in a lengthy report featuring unsubstantiated charges against her, including:

– possessing detailed radiological, chemical and biological information, including possessing a liter of cyanide and instructions for a “dirty bomb;”

– more documents for a mass casualty attack;

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– a list of New York targets, including the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building, Wall Street, and the animal disease center on Plum Island;

– terrorist recruiting;

– possessing excerpts from “The Anarchist’s Arsenal;”

– “documents detailing US military acomplia assets;”

– methods of attack by reconnaissance drones, underwater bombs and gliders; and

– a thumb (or flash) drive packed with emails detailing “specific cells” and planned attacks to carry out.

According to the FBI, she is, or was when captured, a potential “treasure trove” of information on terrorist supporters, sympathizers or sleepers in America and overseas. CIA officer John Kiriakou said she’s “the most significant capture in five years,” and an unnamed counterterrorism official called her “a very dangerous person, no doubt about it.”

For Kiriakou, she’s a “radical” involved in planning “a wide variety of different operations (perhaps with WMDs),” including a “possible attempt on the life of the President.” Unnamed sources from three federal agencies accused her of an “ill conceived” and perhaps amateurish plot to “kill all living US presidents,” including Jimmy Carter by poisoning.

By marriage to his nephew, she’s also reputedly linked to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the “principal architect of the 9/11 attacks,” according to the 9/11 Commission. He reportedly “gave her up” after capture on March 1, 2003, and shortly thereafter she and her children disappeared.

The DOJ also connects her to Adnan El Shukrijumah, another suspected Al Qaeda member “involved in terrorist planning with senior Al Qaeda leaders overseas and across America,” according to John Ashcroft.

Aafia’s friends and family deny all charges. They call her an innocent victim of US persecution, and an especially egregious one for being ravaged in detention. One supporter (Abu Sabaya) said this about the woman he knew:

“I want you to come to know of the concern and dedication that this woman had for Islam as described by those who knew her – a dedication that was manifested by way of actions that were very simple and easy, yet seldom carried out by those who are able.

Those who knew Aafia recall that she was a very small, quiet, polite, and shy woman who was barely noticeable in a gathering. However….she would say what (was) needed” when necessary.

While at MIT, she organized drives to deliver Korans and other Islamic literature to Muslims in local prisons. She was also dedicated to Islam on campus where fellow students described her as soft-spoken, studious, religious, but not extremist or fundamentalist. She wrote three instructional guides on the faith. More as well on how to run a daw’ah table to provide religious information and training for da’iyas (callers to Islam). She wrote:

“Imagine our humble, but sincere daw’ah effort turning into a major daw’ah movement in this country! Just imagine it! And us, reaping the reward of everyone who accepts Islam throught this movement (for) years to come. Think and plan big. May Allah give this strength and sincerity to us so that our humble effort continues and expands until America becomes a Muslim land.”

Aafia taught local Muslim children on Sundays, but her greatest passion was to help oppressed Muslims worldwide. She spoke publicly, sent emails, gave slideshow presentations, and raised donations while a student and caring for three young children at home.

Because of her faith, activism, and passion for the oppressed, it’s little wonder she was targeted and why Assistant US Attorney Christopher LaVigne called her “a high security risk” despite no evidence to prove it.

Her Buy online Levitra Background and What Happened

Aafia is a Pakistani national with degrees from MIT and a doctorate in neurocognitive science from Brandeis. Despite false media reports, she’s not a microbiologist, geneticist or neurologist. Nor did her training provide expertise for WMD terrorism. As her lawyer, Elaine Whitfeld Sharp, explains:

The prosecution claimed “that Aafia was involved in biochemical warfare. She wasn’t taking brain cells and testing how they reacted to gases. But there’s all this news in the media about the changing face of Al Qaeda, the neurobiology scare, and now we’ve got this MIT graduate with viagra pills a Brandeis Ph.D. who’s cooking up all these viruses.”

Boston Magazine writer Katherine Ozment explained what Aafia “was actually cooking up” – the simple concept that people learn by imitation. To study it, “she devised a computer program and used adult volunteers, who came to her office and watched various objects move randomly across the screen, then reproduced what they recalled. The point was to see how well they retained the information having seen in on the screen.”

Brandeis professor of cognitive science Paul DiZio laughed about how this could apply to terrorism. “I can’t see how it can be applied to anything. It’s not applied work. It didn’t have a medical aspect to it. And, as a computer expert, she was competent. But you know, calling her a mastermind or something (is ludicrous) – I never saw any evidence.”

She and her husband (a medical resident at the time at Brigham and Women’s Hospital) used their apartment for a 1999 nonprofit organization they began called the Institute of Islamic Research and Teaching. It had nothing to do with terrorism. According to the neighborhood Mosque’s Imam, Abdullah Faruuq: “What I know of (Aafia) is that she was living here in America, and her organization was for sharing Islamic information with the American people.”

Faruuq was impressed with her dedication. “Aafia was an American girl nolvadex medication and a good sister.” She also wanted her husband to use his medical skills to help the less fortunate. Despite her devout faith, “there was nothing radical about Siddiqui. She just seemed like a very kind person.”

She’s also a mother of three, and a victim of extreme viciousness in detention. According to her mother, Ismet, she “left the family home in Gulshan-e-lqbal in a taxi on March 30 to catch a flight for Rawalpindi, but never reached the airport.” Inside sources claim she was picked up by intelligence agents en route, and initial reports suggest then handed over to the FBI.

She was missing for over a year when the agency posted her photographs on its web site. Shortly afterward, a story was leaked about her involvement in the 2001 Liberian diamond trade with her as an Al Qaeda operative. The family’s attorney, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, called the allegation a blessing in disguise because it placed Aafia in Liberia at a specific time when she can prove she was in Boston that week.

Aafia’s mother says that only days after her daughter’s disappearance a man on motorcycle came to her family home and warned her to say nothing about what happened if she wanted to see Aafia and her grandchildren again. She hasn’t since, and according to the Pakistani Urdu press, the family was picked up by local authorities and taken into custody. A government interior ministry spokesman and two unnamed US officials confirmed the report in the press. They then retracted their statements, but local Chicago NBC news (based on a Press Trust of India account) reported that Aafia was being interrogated by US intelligence officials.

At the time, the FBI website stated: “Although the FBI has no information indicating this individual is connected to specific terrorist activities, the FBI would viagra for women online like to locate and question this individual.” The agency knew full well what happened – that Aafia was in secret detention, that her horrific ordeal had begun, and that they and other US authorities were online ampicillin involved.

A Brief Timeline of Aafia’s Case

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– March 18, 2003: the FBI issues an alert requesting information about Aafia;

– March 29: UPI reports that the FBI believes Aafia may be an Al Qaeda “fixer,” transferring money to support “terrorist” operations;

buy cialis now style=”margin-bottom: 0in;”>– March 30: Aafia disappears en route to the airport for a flight to Rawalpindi;

– April 3: CNN reports that Al Qaeda figure Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (arrested March 1) mentioned Aafia during interrogation; Brand Levitra Pakistani authorities deny any knowledge of her whereabouts;

– April 4: the FBI denies that it captured and is detaining Aafia;

– May walmart pharmacy levitra 26: John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller cite reports that Al Queda plans an attack on the US in the summer or fall; Aafia is named as an Al Qaeda “operative and facilitator” and is one of seven Al Qaeda members being sought;

– May 28, 2004: Pakistan’s Interior Ministry confirms that Aafia was turned over to US authorities in 2003 after it was unable to establish any links she may have had with Al Qaeda;

– A 2006 Amnesty International report includes Aafia as one of many of the “disappeared” in the “war on terror;”

– A 2007 Ghost Prisoner Human Rights Watch report said that Aafia “may have once been held” in secret CIA detention;

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– A February 2008 Asian Human Rights Commission report said Aafia was brought to Karachi and severely tortured to secure her compliance as a government witness against Khalid Shiekh Mohammed;

– July 7, 2008: UK journalist Yvonne Ridley identifies Aafia as “Prisoner 650? at the US Bagram, Afghanistan torture-prison;

– July 11: US Lt. Col. Rumi Nielson-Green denies that any women are being held at Bagram;

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– August 4: a DOJ press release says that Afghanistan National Police arrested Aafia in Ghazni on July 17 and that she was wounded the next day while trying to shoot US Army personnel;

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– August 12: the Washington Pakistani embassy formally requests buying propecia that Aafia be repatriated to Pakistan;

– August 13: the US military in Afghanistan denies Brand Cialis it ever held Aafia in detention and that an unnamed female prisoner was someone else;

– September 12: according to a report in MIT’s The Tech, cialis generika court documents released today cytotec inducing labor indicate that Aafia “was diagnosed with chronic depressive type psychosis;”

– October 6: Pakistani senators Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription Mushahid Hussain Syed, Sadia Abbasi Mehmood, and SM Zafar met with Aafia; Faqir Saeed of the Pakistani embassy as well; she tells them of her ordeal – that she was abducted in 2003, given an injection, found herself in a cell, and was forced to sign papers and confess to things she didn’t do; her children’s lives were threatened and she was abused grievously;

– December 17: the next scheduled Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription date (in New York District Court) to determine if Aafia is fit to stand trial;

– March 9, 2009: the tentative date for Aafia’s trial to begin.

The US Bagram, Afghanistan Torture-Prison

After her abduction, Aafia disappeared into Bagram hell and was known buy Without Prescription cheap online Ampicillin only as “Prisoner 650.” Then later, by released prisoners, as the “Gray Lady of Bagram” because of her screams they heard for years.

At one time, Bagram (north of Kabul at the US air base) held twice as many prisoners as Guantanamo and likely still holds hundreds. They’re crammed into wire cages, routinely tortured, forced to sleep on floor mats, and have buckets for latrines, or at least did until recently. Many prisoners are held secretly, have been there for years, have no access to lawyers, or any knowledge of the allegations against them. Most, perhaps all, are innocent victims and guilty only of being Muslims at the wrong time in the wrong place.

What’s known about Bagram comes from released or transfered prisoners who got access to counsel. In early 2008, The New York Times also reported that the International Committee of the Red Cross filed a confidential complaint with US authorities charging that its detainees were held incommunicado for weeks or months in isolation cells buy viagra europe and subjected to cruel treatment (torture) in violation of international law.

US and International Law on Prisoners of War and Enforced Disappearances

The US War Crimes Act (1996) defines these offenses as grave breaches under the Geneva Conventions (1949) and violations of its Common Article 3. It states in part:

….”the following acts are prohibited at any time and in any place….:

– violence to life and person (including) murder, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

– ….humiliating and degrading treatment;”

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– assuring wounded and sick are (properly) cared for.

The US Army Field Manual 27-10 is also explicit on the rule of law. It incorporates the Nuremberg Principles prohibiting crimes against humanity, and specifically obligates soldiers to disobey illegal orders or be subject to prosecution under international law. Paragraph 498 states that any person, military or civilian, who commits a crime under international law bears responsibility and may be punished. Paragraph 499 defines a “war crime.” Paragraph 509 denies the defense of superior orders in the commission of a crime, and paragraph 510 denies the defense of an “act of state.”

US and international laws leave no ambiguity on torture or its seriousness when practiced. The (1949) Third Geneva Convention’s Article 13 (on the Treatment of Prisoners of War) states:

Third Geneva also prohibits physical or mental torture, all other forms of coercion, collective punishment, corporal punishments, and any type of violence. These acts are “war crimes.” Vario

SOURCE:freedetainees.org

SHC adjourns petition seeking return of Dr Aafia

Sajid Badi-uz-Zaman — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:28:11 +0000

KARACHI: The hearing of a constitutional petition filed for return of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from US custody Buy Viagra online was adjourned buy buy proscar cheap flagyl Ampicillin Without Prescription cheap online to a date to be fixed later by the office of the court here on Friday by a division Viagra buy online acomplia Buy cialis bestellen buy cialis fast shipping Viagra buy levitra vardenafil online generic bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) viagra soft comprising cheapest Order Generic Accutane Online without Prescription levitra buy amoxil canadian 424 buy viagra | where to buy cialis without prescription | order online levitra Kamagra Gold pharmacy levitra online Chief Justice buy cialis pharmacy buy amoxil href=”http://cialis-online-price.com”>buy cialis online usa Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Dr Qamaruddin Bohra.

When the Viagra online prescription petition filed by human rights activists buying propecia Ampicillin online Muhammad Imran and Buy weight loss acomplia Cialis Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription Intekhab Alam Suri came buy real viagra without prescription up for hearing, the bench inquired online pharmacy levitra buy Buy VPXL Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed cialis ebay find tadalafil from the Online Viagra buy petitioner that whether he has complied with all buy cialis soft objections order generic cytotec raised by the office buy cialis overseas of the court.

Iqbal Aqeel, counsel for petitioner sought buy cialis online cheap buy cialis domain href=”http://viagra-online-price.net”>tadalafil a week’s time to comply with the same at which the natural viagra bench put off further proceedings.

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Don’t Blame the Victim – Detailed analysis of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s case

Sajid Badi-uz-Zaman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:59:57 +0000

I share with you a detailed report published on the People’s Resistance mailing list analyzing the abduction of Dr. Aafia Siddqui and her ongoing trial in the US Courts. Please take time to read the report and if you agree with the contents then it would be a great help if you can join in the effort to spread the word far and wide to get buy cheap amoxicillin more support for her.

Case study

On March 30, 2003, Dr. Aafia Cialis dose Siddiqui Online Levitra buy disappeared from Karachi along with her three minor children. Media reported that she had been taken by the US authorities with compliance of Pakistani authorities since the FBI had wanted to seek some information from her. In the face of general outcry, the US and Pakistani authorities buy ampicillin online quickly backtracked but then a year later Pakistani Foreign Office admitted publicly that Aafia had been handed over to the US.^¹

She became a concern for human rights organizations including Amnesty International Online Cialis buy who kept the case alive for five years. On July 6, 2008, political party Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf presented a British journalist in Islamabad who said there was reason to believe that Aafia was the “Prisoner 650? at Bagram (Afghanistan) and had undergone brutal rape and torture for five years. Outcry reaches a high water mark and urgent appeals were sent by Asian Human Rights Commission on July 22, to President George Bush and other persons of authority.

On August 4, the US authorities officially admitted of having Aafia in their custody but the US Department of Justice brought forth a charge sheet against her, claiming that she was arrested on July 17 (and not before) while loitering around near the residence of Ghazni’s Governor. They alleged that papers found in her handbag included instructions on making bombs and notes about installations in US.

They explained her wounds by saying that a day after her arrest she took an M4 rife which belonged to US military personnel and fired two rounds at close range, which missed, and she had to be shot in the torso.

On August 16, the US envoy to Pakistan made a public statement saying that the US had no “definitive knowledge” of the whereabouts of Aafia’s children but only a few days later the Afghan authorities revealed that an 11-year-old boy had also been “arrested” with Aafia and this boy was then repatriated to be received by Aafia’s family as her eldest son.

The story narrated about this alleged episode is not plausible, and contradictions self-evident. Yet Aafia has been suffering pain and humiliation in US prison for more than two months now. There are fears that she is now being brainwashed in order to render her incapable of giving evidence against any atrocities that might have been committed against her.

Three anomalies in the trial

Basically: (a) victim has buy brand viagra | buy cialis online cheap | buy levitra online become the accused; (b) allegations are not being addressed in proper order; and (c) allegations against US authorities by human rights groups and concerned citizens are going un-addressed.

Victim has become the accused

Those who say that they hope to get justice from US legal system in this case are overlooking the fact that the trial is not being held to provide justice to Aafia. It is being held against her.^²

Allegations not addressed in proper order

The case involves three allegations, not one. These need to be addressed in the order in which they appeared:

The FBI’s declaration that it needed Dr. buy cialis soft href=”http://www.teeth.com.pk/blog/2008/07/30/missing-pakistani-dr-afia-siddiqui-prisoner-650″>Aafia amoxicillin Siddiqui for interrogation (2003)
Allegations allegation raised by human rights organizations and Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf that Aafia Siddiqui was being illegally detained, raped and tortured by US authorities (with possible compliance of Pakistani authorities) for five years, and that her three minor children were in illegal detention. July 6, 2008 is the high water mark for this allegation.
Allegation raised by US authorities against Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Levitra Professional that she tried to assassinate US army personnel on July 18, 2008. This allegation was brought forth on August 4, 2008.

The first of these has not been legally pursued by authorities even after they admitted having custody of Aafia. Hence it may be considered as dropped.

The second allegation, which is against US authorities, has never been answered seriously except for a flat rebuttal buy amoxil in inappropriate and condescending tone (consider the US envoy’s open letter of August 16).

Now the third allegation is being addressed in a court of law without addressing the second.^³ This leads to great confusion. The victim has been given into flagyl buy the custody of the party accused of committing offenses against her, and mandate is given to them to further curtail her liberties as a “high security risk”.

Let’s understand: it’s not as if US Government said that it would rather like to keep Aafia in a rehabilitation center in America for treatment of torments suffered by her during five-year-long illegal detention. The victim is now in custody of the party accused of committing the following buy amoxil atrocities against her:

Abduction and illegal detention of the victim
Abduction and illegal detention viagra sales of the victim’s minor children
Attempt of coercing the victim to sign false evidence
Threatening the victim with murder of her children
Sexual abuse, rape and torture
Attempted brainwashing
Possibly, murder of two of the victim’s minor children

The first step should have been to ensure that the party accused of committing these offenses didn’t have any further access to her with malevolent intent. The opposite has happened.

Aafia’s transfer from military to civil authorities doesn’t ensure that her abusers have lost influence: responding to journalists’ question about why they didn’t seek bail for Aafia, her lawyer answered, “There’s more in this case than meets the eye.”

What’s going wrong now

Following incidents which can be seen as injustice or malpractice have occurred after August 6, when Aafia was first presented in New York:

Victim was remanded propecia generic on implausible charges^{buy online cheap Ampicillin Without Prescription name=”11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote4anc” href=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote4sym”>⁴}
Bail Cialis was not even sought by her lawyers^{online levitra href=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote5sym”>⁵}
US envoy gave a questionable statement about victim’s children^⁶
It’s possible that the victim’s eldest son was brainwashed before being handed over by Afghan authorities^⁷
Motion buy generic cytotec to establish the victim as mentally unfit to stand trial, if accepted, will disqualify her from giving evidence later against her abusers
At Carswell, the victim can be at risk of being brainwashed or rendered incapable of providing evidence

Two children of the victim are still missing. If they are still alive then it is possible that they are being used as hostages to pressurize her. Allegations of her illegal detention, rape, etc, and the abduction of her children, is going unaddressed.

Can she get justice from US legal system?

That question will arise only after a case is brought up to seek justice for her. The Buy online Viagra current trial has been registered against the victim and not against her abusers.

Unfounded speculation is bad but some speculation is required for arriving anywhere in legal matters. Here we are forced to choose between two options: cheap levitra either the story about Aafia’s alleged arrest and shooting as told by the DOJ is true, or it is false.

The story is not likely to be true. Consider this passage from rejoinder to US envoy’s letter by Kamran Shafi, journalist and former trainer in small arms:

By the way Excellency, if you care to notice, Aafia Siddiqui is about your build and dimensions. May I suggest you get one of your Marines at the embassy to bring you a US army-issue M4 rifle. Now ask him to clear the chamber, affix the magazine, put the rifle on ’safe’, and place it on the ground which would be the exact position in which Aafia Siddiqui found hers and with which she is alleged to have fired upon the US officer. You may very well fail to even cock it in 10 seconds, let alone find the safety catch, lift the rifle to your shoulder and fire it.^{Buy baclofen online href=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote8sym”>⁸}

It seems as if the US authorities knew that this story won’t stand a test in the court and their real strategy Online buy Cialis was to buy time for declaring Aafia mentally unfit or perhaps even to induce mental disorder while in custody.

Such speculation sounds harsh but once the DOJ story is rejected there is no way we can pass viagra online sale over it as an “honest mistake”. If the story is false then obviously we aredealing with an unusually ugly and disturbing cover-up of enormous dimensions.

We must not forget the three other victims in this case: Aafia’s minor children. The first is Ahmad Siddiqui, 11-year-old, and the anomalies in his case raise suspicions of a three-step approach to cover up brainwashing in captivity.^⁹ First, deny having any buy real viagra without prescription | buy cialis fast shipping | low price levitra “definitive knowledge” of the captive’s whereabouts. Second, admit that he was in detention even at the time of those denials. Third, send him home in mentally unstable state where he cannot recall details about captivity. There is a stark analogy between his fate and the contradictory reports now coming out about her mother: is she at step 2 now, undergoing brainwashing?

By the authorities’ own admission Ahmad’s detention at least from July 17 to August 22 was irregular: it was covered up despite urgent appeals from around the world.

The second victim is Aafia’s daughter Mariam, 10 years old (5 at the time of her disappearance), and the third is the youngest son Salman, 5 years old (six months at the time of his disappearance). Authorities deny having “definitive knowledge” of his whereabouts too.

It may be remembered that capture of minor children and infants for pressurizing their parents was described by Pakistan’s former president Pervez Muharraf as fair tactic while participating in American War Against Terror.^{Buy Generic Viagra name=”11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote10anc” href=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote10sym”>¹⁰}

What needs to be done

We need to be absolutely clear that the real issue here is the second set of allegations in which Aafia is victim, not accused.

By remaining silent on that issue now, the whole world is allowing a victim to become accused. Since this has already where to purchase nolvadex become one of the most famous trials of the new century, a bad precedent in this matter is likely to affect the future of human rights for very long time and almost everywhere in the world. Time is of essence here, because it seems as if evidence is being destroyed very fast.

The following steps may need to be taken buy generic viagra professional | buy cialis pharmacy | cheap levitra generic without losing any further time:

Human rights groups in US should file petition in a US court to the effect that Aafia’s trial is unfair and should be dismissed. It needs to be dismissed immediately, and in any case latest by November 7, i.e. forty days before the date which has been set for hearing whether or not Aafia is mentally fit to stand trial: there is reason to suspect that some foul play is going on which is likely to accomplish its ends by that date and evidence related to actual culprits will have been destroyed, possibly including memory of the victim herself.
Separately, a complaint should be lodged against culprits who victimized Aafia earlier, and a plea should be made for the recovery of her two missing children.
All peaceful and healthy means should be used for educating people in as many countries as possible about where to buy cialis without prescription Professional”>Viagra Professional the AAFIA issue – especially the message that a victim should not be victimized and the meaning of justice should not be distorted.^{Cialis Jelly rimonabant name=”11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote11anc” href=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote11sym”>¹¹}
Concerned citizens of the world need viagra prices to explore whether there is a proper channel for taking up this issue beyond slogans, protests and demonstrations. If no such buy generic cialis channel exists then it needs to be created.
If any rights group decides to make a separate committee for pursuing this case, then that committee should also look into the wider implications and related issues, and hence “AAFIA” might be a good acronym for “Affirmative Action for the Freedom and Independence of All” (Aafia literally means comprehensive safety). Fresh grounds need to be broken for safeguarding human buy levaquin rights in these new times.

United Nations was a giant step towards peace, but what about “united humanity”? We need to alter certain perceptions now and we need to weight loss acomplia set new precedents.

Consequences for everyone

Terrorism is a serious threat which should not be trivialized the way it has been through the victimization of Aafia Siddiqui and her minor children. Genuine efforts being made against terrorism will also earn a bad name, if not fall flat on their face, if moral superiority is lost – and it will be lost if injustice in the case of Aafia Siddiqui completes its course.

The case is so complex, and its details so gruesome, that many still may not have realized what the possible outcome of her mistreatment might turn out to be. The analysis offered here may not be how everyone is seeing things now but it is likely to be how these things will be seen in times to come, as the truth gradually seeps into people’s conscience.

Then canadian pharmacy levitra a great setback for human rights may be suffered because in our times such rights rest on the premise proscar that people are entities who should be respected, their humanity cannot be usurped by any government and a person cannot be buy generic levitra online objectified before the mystique of state. Losing this one case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui can mean losing the very premise of human rights, and losing it in bright limelight.^¹²

It is not just about Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, but rather ironically, it amoxicillin buy is also about what her first name means literally in her native language: comprehensive safety. She is a highly educated woman who made it to the upper strata of diflucan generic middle class in two societies – Pakistan and US. low price levitra What happened to her can happen to anyone, and it may happen more easily in future if bad precedent is set now.

For America, it is a moment of truth. The international community has been hearing so much about the “deposed” Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, who used to take suo moto action on such cases, forcing his government and its much-dread intelligence agencies to become answerable to the court. For that he risked his job, personal freedom and the future of his children. Global observers are likely to notice that no judge in US seems to be as willing to take suo moto action in this case as Justice Chaudhry of Pakistan would have been even if such thing had been found in his jurisdiction. Tables are turning: at the going rate it might not be very long before US finds itself lagging behind developing countries in matters of awareness about human rights among the masses. For its own good, US ought to revise its take on this case.

REFERENCES

1 Her children were not mentioned by FO, but President Musharraf later dropped hint in his autobiography that “arresting” minors and even infant children of accused was part of tactics being used in the US War Against Terror.

Cheap Levitra name=”11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote2sym” href=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote2anc”>2 In the case of rape, viagra online stores the term “victim” is applied to the aggrieved party even before her case is proven true in a court.

3 I am presuming that the first allegation has already been dropped by the party which raised it, so we need not address it anymore. In all fairness, we should be open to give it due importance, with proper attention to the whole context, in case the first party (i.e. the FBI) chooses to bring it back in the future.

4 Charge sheet against Aafia was implausible and inaccuracies could have been exposed through a simple simulation/demonstration. Yet the American judge gave remand of her person instead of sending her to a hospital as she deserved in view of her condition (she was still bleeding from bullet wounds)

5 Why should seeking bail be so difficult in a case where the accusation doesn’t pass the test of common sense, let alone legal proceeding? More importantly, why was bail not even sought?

6 On August 16, the US envoy to Pakistan stated publicly that the US authorities have no definitive knowledge of the whereabouts of Aafia’s children. About ten days later the Afghan authorities Kamagra Gold stated that they had also “arrested” a boy along with Aafia. One could smell a rat here: a person of such prominence as US envoy Buying levitra is unlikely to risk a misleading statement unless the stakes are really high.

buyviagra | buy cialis overseas | buy levitra drugs name=”11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote7sym” href=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote7anc”>7 Aafia’s son, finally repatriated by Afghan authorities, cannot recall much and is having nightmares. Did the authorities deny knowledge of his whereabouts initially because at that time they were brainwashing him and were still unsure that it would work?

8 Published in Dawn (Karachi) on October 14. Earlier on September 10, Joane Mariner, an attorney with Human Rights Watch in New York wrote in Counterpunch, “If you cheap Ampicillin Drugstore buy online trust the US story, you have to imagine that… more than the al Qaeda mom, as the New York Post dubs her, she would have to be al Qaeda’s Angelina viagra online buy | buy cialis ebay find tadalafil | generic levitra online Jolie.”

9 The word “definitive knowledge” in US envoy’s statement leaves an uncomfortable impression of preparing for a future moment when it may turn out to be otherwise and then it could be said that the knowledge Buy Cialis online which the US authorities had in this matter was not “definitive” but of some other sort (The statement said, “The buy cialis soft tabs United States has no definitive knowledge as to the whereabouts of Ms Siddiqui’s Buy Brand Levitra Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed children”). Was Ahmad being subjected to brainwashing so that his detention buy pfizer viagra online could not be revealed till making sure that the process had been successful?

Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription name=”11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote10sym” href=”https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy#11d28377e5c639b8_sdfootnote10anc”>10 In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf published in 2006 by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, p.224.

11 In Pakistan and Islamic countries this case study can be specially useful: given the peculiar nature of this case, the masses are likely to accept the message and apply it to other injustices against the weak.

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SOURCE: teeth.com.pk

Dr. Aafia Case–>Don’t Blame the Victim

Sajid Badi-uz-Zaman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:10:24 +0000

Don’t Blame the Victim

Case study

On March 30, 2003, Tadacip Dr. Aafia Siddiqui disappeared from Karachi along with her three minor children. Media reported that she had been taken by the US authorities with compliance of Pakistani authorities since the FBI had wanted to seek some information from her. In the face of general outcry, the US and Pakistani authorities quickly backtracked but then a year later Pakistani Foreign Office admitted publicly that Aafia had been handed over to the US.¹

She Online Viagra Shops became a concern for human rights organizations including Amnesty International who kept the case alive for five years. On July 6, 2008, political party Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf presented a British journalist in Islamabad who said there was reason to believe that Aafia was the “Prisoner 650? at Bagram (Afghanistan) and had undergone brutal rape and torture for five years. Outcry reaches a high water mark and urgent appeals were sent by Asian Human Rights Commission on July 22, to President George Bush and other persons of authority.

On August 4, the US authorities officially admitted buy cheap drugs of having Aafia in their custody but the US Department of Justice brought forth a charge sheet against her, claiming that she was arrested on July 17 (and not before) while loitering around near the residence of Ghazni’s Governor. They alleged that papers found in her handbag included instructions on making bombs and notes about installations in US.

They explained her wounds by saying that a day after her arrest she took an M4 rife which belonged to US military personnel and fired two rounds at close buy levitra range, which missed, and she had to be shot in the torso.

Three anomalies in the trial

Basically: (a) victim has become the accused; (b) allegations are not being addressed in proper order; and (c) allegations against US authorities by human rights groups and concerned citizens are going Brand Viagra un-addressed.

Victim has become the accused

Those who say that they hope to get justice from US legal system in this case are overlooking the fact that the trial is not being held to provide justice to Aafia. It is being held against her.²

Allegations not buying propecia addressed in proper order

The case involves three allegations, not one. These need to be addressed in the order in which they appeared:

1. The FBI’s declaration that it needed Dr. Aafia Siddiqui for interrogation (2003)

2. Allegations allegation raised by human rights organizations and Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf that Aafia Siddiqui was being illegally detained, raped and tortured by US authorities (with possible compliance of Pakistani authorities) for five years, and that her three minor children were in illegal detention. July 6, 2008 is the high water mark for this allegation.

3. Allegation raised by US authorities against Dr. Aafia Siddiqui that she tried to assassinate US army personnel on July 18, 2008. This allegation was brought forth on August 4, 2008.

The first of these has not been legally pursued by authorities even after they admitted having custody of Aafia. Hence it may be considered as dropped.

The second allegation, which is against US authorities, has never been answered seriously except for a flat rebuttal in inappropriate and condescending tone (consider the US envoy’s open letter of August buy online acomplia 16).

Now the third allegation is being addressed in a court of law without addressing the second.buy levitra online href=”http://aa.mc540.mail.yahoo.com/mc/showMessage?fid=Inbox&sort=date&order=down&startMid=25&.rand=1647730097&da=0&midIndex=0&mid=1_26172716_AOkkvs4AAJR5SQAR3AhIeh1G9Ek&nextMid=1_26173291_AOEkvs4AABitSQAXGwHtFEijtX4#11d2837813e1ac75_sdfootnote3sym#11d2837813e1ac75_sdfootnote3sym”>³ cheap Ampicillin online Drugstore buy This leads to great confusion. The victim has been given into the custody of the party accused of committing offenses Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription against buy Ampicillin Without Prescription online cheap her, and mandate is given to them to further curtail her liberties as a “high security risk”.

Let’s understand: it’s not as if US Government said that it would rather like to keep Aafia in a rehabilitation center in purchasing Cialis daily cytotec America for cheapest viagra treatment of torments suffered by her during five-year-long illegal detention. The victim is now in custody of the party accused of committing the following atrocities against her:

1. Abduction and illegal detention of the victim

2. Abduction and illegal detention of the victim’s minor children

3. Attempt of coercing the victim to sign false evidence

4. Threatening the victim with murder of her children

5. Sexual abuse, rape and torture

6. Attempted brainwashing

7. Possibly, murder of two of the victim’s minor children

The first step should have been to ensure that the party accused of committing these offenses didn’t have any further access to her with malevolent intent. The opposite has happened.

What’s going wrong now

Following incidents which can be seen as injustice or malpractice have occurred after August 6, when Aafia was first presented in New York:

1. Victim was remanded on implausible charges ⁴

2. Bail was not even sought by her lawyers ⁵

3. buy ampicillin US envoy gave a questionable statement about victim’s childrengeneric levaquin name=”11d2837813e1ac75_sdfootnote6anc”>⁶

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5. buy cialis by the pill Motion to establish the victim as mentally unfit to stand trial, if accepted, will disqualify her from giving evidence later against her abusers

6. At Carswell, the victim can be at risk of being brainwashed or rendered incapable of providing evidence

Two children of the victim are still missing. If they are still alive then it is possible that they are being used as hostages to pressurize her. Allegations of her illegal detention, rape, etc, and Provigil online No prescription the abduction of her children, is going unaddressed.

Can she get justice from US legal Viagra Professional system?

That question will arise only after a case is brought up to seek justice for her. The current trial has been registered against the victim and not against her abusers.

Unfounded speculation viagra female is bad but some Online Viagra buy speculation is required for arriving anywhere in legal matters. Here we are forced to choose between low price levitra two options: either the story about Aafia’s alleged arrest and shooting as told by the DOJ is true, or it is false.

The story is not likely to be true. Consider this passage from rejoinder to US envoy’s letter by Kamran Shafi, journalist and former trainer in small arms:

By the way Excellency, if you care to notice, Aafia Siddiqui is about your build and dimensions. May I suggest you get one of your Marines at the embassy to bring you a US army-issue buy levitra M4 rifle. Now ask him to clear the chamber, affix the magazine, put the rifle on ’safe’, and place it on the ground which would be the exact position in which Aafia Siddiqui found hers and with which she is alleged to have fired upon the US officer. You may very well fail to even cock it in 10 seconds, let alone find the safety catch, lift the rifle to your shoulder and fire it.⁸

It Buy Levaquin Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed canadian pharmacy viagra seems as if the US authorities knew that this story won’t stand a test in the court and their real strategy was to buy time for declaring Aafia mentally unfit or perhaps even to induce mental disorder while in custody.

Such speculation sounds harsh but once the DOJ story is rejected there is no way we can pass over it as an “honest mistake”. If the story is false then obviously we are dealing with an unusually ugly and disturbing cover-up of enormous dimensions.

We must not forget the three other victims in this case: Aafia’s minor children. The first is Ahmad Siddiqui, 11-year-old, and the anomalies in his case raise suspicions of a three-step approach to cover up brainwashing in captivity.⁹ First, deny having any “definitive knowledge” of the captive’s whereabouts. Second, admit that he was in detention even at the time of those denials. Third, send him home in mentally unstable state where he cannot recall details about captivity. There is a stark analogy between his fate and the generic levitra contradictory reports now coming out about her mother: is she at step 2 now, undergoing brainwashing?

By the authorities’ own admission Ahmad’s detention at least from July 17 to August 22 was irregular: it was covered up despite urgent appeals from around the world.

What buy cialis cheap needs to be done

We need to be absolutely clear that the real issue here is the second set of allegations in which Aafia is victim, not accused.

By remaining silent on that issue now, the whole world is allowing a victim price levitra to become accused. Since this has already become one of the most famous trials of the new century, a bad precedent in this matter is likely to affect the future of human rights for very long time and almost everywhere in the world. Time is of essence here, because it seems as if evidence is being destroyed very fast.

The following steps may need to be taken without losing any further time:

1. Human rights groups in US should file petition in a US court to the effect that Aafia’s trial is unfair and should be dismissed. It needs to be dismissed immediately, and in any case latest by November 7, i.e. forty days before the date which has been set for hearing whether or not Aafia is mentally fit to stand trial: there is reason to suspect that some foul play is going on which is likely to accomplish its ends by that date and evidence related to actual culprits will have been destroyed, possibly including memory of the victim herself.

2. Separately, a complaint should be lodged against culprits who victimized Aafia earlier, and a plea should be made for the recovery of her two missing children.

3. All peaceful and healthy means should be used for educating people in as many countries as possible about the AAFIA issue – especially the message that a victim should not be victimized and the meaning of justice should not be distorted.¹¹

4. buy pfizer viagra online | buy cialis pills online | buy levitra vardenafil Concerned citizens of the world need to explore whether there is a proper channel for taking up this issue beyond slogans, protests and demonstrations. If no such channel exists then it buy cialis needs to be created.

5. If any rights group decides to make a separate committee for pursuing this case, then that committee should also look into the wider implications and related issues, and hence “AAFIA” might be a good acronym for “Affirmative Action for the Freedom generic amoxil and Independence of All” (Aafia literally means comprehensive safety). Fresh grounds need to be broken for safeguarding human rights in these new times.

United Nations was a giant step towards peace, but what about “united humanity”? We need to alter certain perceptions now and we need to set new precedents.

Consequences for everyone

Terrorism is a serious threat which should not be trivialized the way it has been through the victimization of Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription Aafia Siddiqui and her minor children. Genuine efforts being made against terrorism will also earn a bad name, if not fall flat on their face, if moral superiority is lost – and it will be lost if injustice in the case of Aafia Siddiqui completes its course.

Then a great setback for human rights may be suffered because in our times such rights rest on the premise that people are generic diflucan entities who should be respected, their humanity cannot be usurped by any government and a person cannot be objectified before the mystique of state. Losing this one case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui can mean losing the very premise of human rights, and losing it in bright limelight.¹²

It buy cheap amoxicillin is not just about Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, but rather ironically, it is also about what her first name means literally in her native buy cialis tadalafil language: comprehensive safety. She is a highly educated woman who made it to the upper strata of middle class in two societies – Pakistan and US. What happened to her can happen to anyone, and it may happen more easily in future if bad precedent is set now.

For America, it is a moment of truth. The international community levitra pharmacy canada has been hearing so much about the “deposed” Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, who used to take suo moto action on such cases, forcing his government and its much-dread intelligence agencies to become answerable to the court. For that he risked his job, personal freedom and the future of his children. Global observers are likely to notice that no judge in US seems to be as willing to take suo moto action in this case as Justice Chaudhry of Pakistan would have been even if such thing had been found in his jurisdiction. Tables are turning: at the going rate it might not be very long before US finds itself lagging behind developing countries 424 buy viagra in matters of awareness about human rights among the masses. For its own good, US ought to revise its take on this case.

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2 In the case of rape, the term “victim” is applied to the aggrieved party even before her case is proven true in a court.

buy proscar name=”11d2837813e1ac75_sdfootnote3sym”>3 I am presuming that the first allegation has already been dropped by the party which raised it, so we need not address it anymore. In all fairness, we should be open to give it due importance, with proper attention to the whole context, in case the first Online Cialis buy party (i.e. the FBI) chooses to bring it back in the future.

5 Why should seeking bail be so difficult in a case where the accusation doesn’t pass the test of common sense, let alone legal Cialis Jelly proceeding? More importantly, why was bail not even sought?

6 On August 16, the US envoy to Pakistan stated publicly that the US authorities have no definitive knowledge of the whereabouts of Aafia’s children. About ten days later the Afghan authorities stated that they had also “arrested” a boy along with Aafia. One could smell a rat here: a person of such prominence as US envoy is unlikely to risk a misleading statement unless the stakes are really high.

7 Buy atarax online Cialis online Aafia’s son, finally repatriated by Afghan authorities, cannot recall much and is having nightmares. Did the authorities deny knowledge of his whereabouts initially because at that time they were brainwashing him and were still unsure that it would work?

8 buy generic nolvadex online Published in Dawn (Karachi) on October 14. Earlier on September 10, Joane Mariner, an attorney with Human Rights Watch in New York wrote in Counterpunch, “If you trust the US story, you have to imagine that… more than the al Qaeda mom, as the New York Post dubs her, she would have to be al Qaeda’s Angelina Jolie.”

9 amoxil online Viagra Jelly The word “definitive knowledge” in US envoy’s statement leaves an uncomfortable impression viagra prices of preparing for a future moment when it may turn out to be otherwise and then it could be said that the knowledge which the US authorities had in this matter was not “definitive” but of some other sort (The statement said, “The United States has no definitive knowledge as to the whereabouts of Ms Siddiqui’s children”). Was Ahmad being subjected to brainwashing so that his detention could not be revealed till making sure that the process had been successful?

10 real viagra online In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf published in 2006 buy amoxil online by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, p.224.

11 buy cialis for daily use In Pakistan and Islamic countries this case study can be specially useful: given the peculiar nature of this case, the masses are likely to accept Viagra online deals the message and apply it to other injustices against the weak.

12 buy cialis fast shipping cheap flagyl In Pakistan, the diet pills even now the HRCP might be facing a crisis about its credibility with the masses, who generally feel that the HRCP has done less than what was expected of it in this regards.

History of Aafia Siddiqui

Sajid Badi-uz-Zaman — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:31:51 +0000

Name: Aafia Siddiqui
Nationality: Pakistani
Residence: US
Marital Status: Unknown
Date of Arrest: 30/03/2003
Location of Arrest: Karachi, Pakistan

Aafia Siddiqui was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 2, 1972. She was one of three children of Mohammad Siddiqui, a doctor trained in England, and Ismet. She is a mother of three. Aafia moved to Texas in 1990 to be near her brother, and after spending a year at the University of Houston, transferred to MIT. Aafia then married Mohammed Amjad Khan, a medical student, and subsequently entered Brandeis University as a graduate student in cognitive neuroscience. Citing the difficulty of living as Muslims in the United States after 9/11, Aafia and her husband returned to Pakistan. They stayed in Pakistan for a short time, and then returned to the United States. They remained there until 2002, and then moved back to Pakistan. Some problems developed in their marriage, and Aafia was eight months pregnant with their third child when she and Khan were estranged. She and the children stayed at her mother’s house, while Khan lived elsewhere in Karachi. After giving birth to her son, Aafia stayed at her mother’s house for the rest of the year, returning to the US without her children around December 2002 to look for a job in the Baltimore area, where her sister had begun working at Sinai Hospital. Soon after Pakistani authorities arrested Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Aafia and her children disappeared.

A report in the Pakistani Urdu press said that Aafiai and her kids had been seen being picked up by Pakistani authorities and taken into custody. According to Mrs. Siddiqui, Aafia left her mother’s house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in a Metro-cab on March 30, to catch a flight for Rawalpindi, but never reached the airport. Inside sources claim that Afia had been “picked-up” by intelligence agencies while on her way to the airport and initial reports suggest she was handed over to the FBI. Aafia Siddiqui had been missing for more than a year when the FBI put her photographs on its website. The press was told that she was an Al Qaeda facilitator. After an FBI conference, a newspaper broke the story linking the woman involved in the 2001 diamond trade in Liberia to Aafia. The family’s attorney, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, says the allegation was a blessing in disguise because it places Siddiqui somewhere at a specific time.

She says she can prove Siddiqui was in Boston that week. In Pakistan, there has been no official report registered with the police regarding her disappearance, and the police are doing nothing to trace her. Mrs. Siddiqui Buy ed advanced pack online alleges that an intelligence agency official came to her house a week after the incident, and warned her not to make an issue out of her daughter’s disappearance and threatened her with dire consequences. Both the Pakistan government as well as US officials in Washington denied any knowledge of Aafia’s custody. On 7th July 2008, a press conference led by Cageprisoners patron, Yvonne Ridley, and Director, Saghir Hussain, in Pakistan resulted in mass international coverage of Aafia’s case as her disappearance was questioned by the media and political figures in Pakistan. It was on 3rd August 2008 that an agent from the FBI visited the home of her brother in Houston, Texas and told him that she was being detained in Afghanistan. On Monday 4th August 2008, federal prosecutors in the US confirmed that Aafia Siddiqui was extradited to the US from Afghanistan where they allege she had been detained since mid-July 2008. The US administration claims that she was arrested by Afghani forces outside Ghazni governor’s compound with manuals on explosives and ‘dangerous substances in sealed jars’ on her person. They further allege that whilst in custody she shot at US officers (none being injured) and was herself injured in the process. According to her lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, “We do know she was at Bagram for a long time. It was a long time.

According to my client she was there for years and she was held in American custody; her treatment was horrendous.” Aafia’s claim is contrary to the heavily contested position of the US administration that she was detained in July by Afghan forces while attempting to bomb the compound of the governor of Ghazni. Her lawyers claim that the evidence was planted on her. The US has previously denied the presence of female detainees in Bagram and that Aafia was ever held there, bar for medical treatment in July 2008. Aafia remains in a US detention facility in New York, in poor health, subjected to degrading and humiliating strip searches and cavity searches whenever she receives a legal visit or appears in court. She has subsequently refused to meet with counsel. It has been reported that she may suffer from brain damage and that a part of her intestine may have been removed. Her lawyers say her symptoms are consistent with a sufferer of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Aafia’s eldest son, Ahmad, is believed to be in custody in Afghanistan. Despite the fact he is a US national he was not extradited along with his mother to the US. The whereabouts of Aafia’s two youngest children, missing for the past five years, remain unknown.

Prisoner 650

Sajid Badi-uz-Zaman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:22:48 +0000

Prisoner 650

buy merck propecia alt=”Protesters display posters in support of Siddiqui” width=”160″ height=”120″ />

Pakistanis protests the Gitmo detention of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance, terror-related detention and trial of a Pakistani female doctor adds fuel to the fire for an angry public, Naveed Ahmad reports for ISN Security Watch.

By Naveed Ahmad in Islamabad and Karachi for ISN Security Watch

Though Pakistani Dr Aafia Siddiqui allegedly has been held by US forces for over four years, it was only on 6 July this year that the story came to the world when British journalist Yvonne Ridley published Kamagra jelly a report about the “grey lady” in custody at Afghanistan’s amoxil online Bagram Detention Center.

However, there buy cialis no rx had been reports of Siddiqui’s disappearance earlier in the year.

In April this year, Newsline published a detailed account of Siddiqui’s disappearance along with her three children en route to the airport. buy propecia cheap On 2 April 2003, then-interior minister Faisal Saleh buy real viagra without prescription Hayat told local reporters that Siddiqui had been arrested for her connections with al-Qaida. “You will be astonished to know about the activities of Dr Aafia,” he told reporters at the time.

Moreover, Buy Erectile Dysfunction medications a book of memoirs buy nolvadex no prescription – Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar – co-authored by former Gitmo detainee Moazzam Begg with Victoria Brittain mentions Siddiqui as the “grey lady” at the Bagram prison, known there as “Prisoner cheapest viagra 650.”

Though the Pakistani public has expressed outrage at the story since its initial publication by Newsline in April, buyviagra Ridley’s story served to further fuel the fires of anti-American sentiment.

Her story – and that of her children – remains a mystery.

“Prisoner 650″ faces a possible life sentence for allegedly grabbing a US Army officer’s M-4 rifle while she was being detained, shooting at another officer and threatening all seven members of an Army and FBI team before she was shot and subdued, according to Ridley’s account.

Cialis online style=”font-family: Arial;”>According to viagra prices the New York Times, Siddiqui was transferred to New York from Afghanistan on 5 August, where the authorities say she tried to kill American soldiers who had gone to interrogate her after she was taken into custody in July. According to this account, she was taken into custody in July this year, rather than Online Viagra buy over the diet pills four years ago.
According to Newsday, Siddiqui was “originally arrested in Afghanistan on July 17 and brought to the United States to stand trial on attempted murder and other charges.”

Siddiqui’s family in Karachi, however, claims she went missing on 30 March 2003 with her three children – Mohammad Ahmad (now 11) Mariam (10), and buy generic levitra Suleman (5) – as they left Karachi for the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. The family claims they were informed of Siddiqui’s detention in Afghanistan in late 2003 by a government official sympathetic to their cause.

buy levitra Arial;”>The US denies these claims.

“As the Department of Justice has made clear, Ms. Siddiqui was not in U.S. custody before she was detained on July 17, 2008,” The Washington Post quoted CIA spokesman George Little as saying. “Any suggestion that the CIA would imprison her children is wrong and offensive. Had we known where Ms. Siddiqui was prior amoxil online to her capture, we would have shared that information with our partners generic levitra in this country and overseas. She was a fugitive from American justice.”
What Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription we do know for sure is that Siddiqui is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center Buy Revia Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed in Brooklyn during levitra pharmacy canada her trial. And as to where two of her missing children may be, that is anyone’s guess.

Chain of mysteries

In March 2003, Siddiqui was accused of being a high-profile al-Qaida operative, who had allegedly supplied precious gems from Africa to fund the 9/11 attacks. A biographical summary of terrorism generic levaquin suspects by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence described Siddiqui as part of a ring of “al-Qaida operatives and facilitators,” and said she also helped 9/11 suspect Majid Khan with travel documents. Buy zyprexa online

However, these allegations have not appeared on the charge-sheet since the hearing started in September this year in New York; instead Siddiqui is being charged only with firing on US soldiers and is were to buy viagra | buy cialis by the pill | low price levitra being pressed about her possession of some maps and pictures of landmark New York buildings.

Since the start of her trial in New York, the Pakistani government has been seeking the repatriation online cheapest viagra order viagra of Siddiqui and her three children.

generic amoxil Arial;”>US Justice Department documents seen by ISN Security Watch confirmed that the eldest son, Ahmad, was under the supervision of US authorities in Afghanistan, but there is no mention of the other two children. Ahmad has since been returned to Pakistan.

order online levitra href=”http://e-viagraonline.net/item.php?name=Brand Levitra”>Brand Levitra Arial;”>Following buy brand viagra tremendous pressure from Pakistan, its civil society and international human rights watchdogs, Siddiqui’s eldest son was flown to Islamabad on 15 September. Currently, the 11-year-old is receiving counseling and staying with his aunt, Dr Fowzia Siddiqui.

Terrorist, victim or patient?

More mysteries are being unveiled as the trial proceeds in the southern district court of New York. The indictment hearing of Dr Siddiqui in Afghanistan was postponed until 22 September after she refused to appear before the court in protest against buy cialis professional online being strip searched. Her defense counsel and family allege that she was repeatedly raped in custody.

On 23 September, District Court Judge Richard Berman entered a plea of not guilty on the defendant’s behalf and ordered a psychiatric evaluation to buy generic zithromax assess if she was fit to stand trial. In buy online cheap Drugstore Ampicillin a letter to US District Judge Richard Berman, US Attorney Michael Garcia said that there was reason to believe Siddiqui was suffering from a mental illness.

According to Bernman, a competency hearing will be held on 17 December.

cheap online Without Prescription Ampicillin buy Arial;”>Speaking to ISN Security Watch in Karachi, Siddiqui’s neighbors described her as a very polite and shy woman who was barely noticeable in gatherings and kept a quiet apartment on the 20th floor of the Back Bay Manor in Roxbury, Boston. She was particularly known for her religious activities, such as distributing copies Cialis online acomplia of the Holy Koran to prisoners and raising funds for Bosnian war victims. According to Pakistani reports, Siddiqui had lived in the US for 12 years before her return to Karachi and her disappearance there.

Her husband, Mohammed Amjad Buy cheap Amoxil Online Khan, was known for his extreme religious views and his ambitions to convert people to Islam. One Boston friend, who requested anonymity, said Amjad never believed in using weapons or forcefully implementing his views and belonged to Lahore-based “Tablighi Jama’at,” which focuses purifying the soul through prayers and meditation.

buy cialis pills online style=”font-family: Arial;”>Siddiqui’s disappearance followed the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed from Pakistan. It is assumed that this key al-Qaida operative had thrown up her name during interrogation. The FBI believes that Siddiqui’s post-office box was used by Majid Khan. Sharp argued that his client may have trusted the man out of naivety, terming the incident “a case of stolen identity.”

Iqbal Haider, a Karachi-based lawyer and human rights activist, believes the case is severely flawed. “How can a Pakistani national be tried in an American court if she is not a US citizen and the alleged crime was not committed on US soil?” he tells ISN Security Watch buy real viagra without prescription | buy cialis fast shipping | low price levitra in Karachi.

Haider also questions the rationale behind the alleged abduction of Siddiqui’s three children by the intelligence agents. “Are these kids terrorists, sleepers or financers? Nobody is talking about this,” he says.

In the meantime, Dr Fowzia amoxicillin claims she has been receiving threats during her campaign for Siddiqui’s release. “I am receiving anonymous threatening phone calls . . . I cannot trust anyone.”

War on terror fallout

Fowzia has been assured by the Pakistani foreign minister, government and opposition that every possible effort is being made to have her Online Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription Cialis buy sister extradited to Pakistan along with Viagra online her children. Both houses of parliament passed unanimous resolutions to repatriate buy cialis cheap Siddiqui.

Though anti-American sentiment in Pakistan continues to grow, many analysts believe that unlike the cases of other missing persons handed over to the US by former president General Pervez Musharraf, the case of Siddiqui and her children may have a happy ending yet.

Kamagra Soft style=”font-family: Arial;”>Rashid Mafzool Zaka, an expert buy Ampicillin in security and foreign affairs, believes that “tremendous pressure by human rights organizations and media would make Aafia and her children an exception as the matter is too sensitive even for the American Kamagra Gold public to ignore in name of terrorism.”

On 11 August, the Washington Post quoted Bruce Hoffman, a professor of security studies at Georgetown University, as saying that generic diflucan “the [US] government has realized it is much easier to make a criminal case than a terrorism case, which involves conspiracy and Viagra ad sensitive materials.” Until recently, Siddiqui might have “disappeared into the enemy combatant protocols,” he was quoted as saying.

In the meantime, while Siddiqui’s lawyer and family members continue to pressure authorities regarding the whereabouts of the defendant’s two remaining children, Washington continues to deny they are being held in custody.
Pakistani officials also say they have no information on the whereabouts of Siddiqui’s two children.

buy cheap flagyl style=”font-family: Arial;”>An Afghan embassy spokesman in Islamabad told ISN Security Watch: “There is no information about buy levitra online these two Pakistani juveniles in any of our prisons.”

buy viagra online pharmacy | buy cialis online overnight | levitra vardenafil buy cheap amoxicillin style=”font-family: Arial;”>Human rights activist Amina Masood Janjua, the wife of a missing cytotec abortion pill person, says missing people are picked by the Pakistani intelligence agencies for a few months before being handed over to the Americans, who keep them either at the Kandahar or Bagram prisons in Afghanistan before sending some to Gitmo.

Many still believe that Siddiqui has been lucky to be heard by a federal judge unlike dozens of other quietly languishing at Guantanamo.

Naveed Ahmad is ISN Security Tadacip Watch’s senior correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Besides reporting best viagra online for Pakistani TV channel, Geo News and Germany’s DW-TV, he also strings for newspaper in the US and Middle East.

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui: A ‘Missing Person’ With A Name

Sajid Badi-uz-Zaman — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:13:49 +0000

Dr. Aafia’s Siddiqui levitra vardenafil story has been haunting most Pakistanis for months now. Famously known as ‘Prisoner 650? at Bagram Base in Afghanistan, she is one of the missing persons of Pakistan, wanted by FBI on alleged links with Al-Qaeda.

Dr. Afia Siddiqui, a highly educated researcher levitra online pharmacy who studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, for about 10 years and did her PhD in genetics, mysteriously disappeared from Karachi in March 2003 along with her three children. Since then, US and Pakistani officials have continuously denied any knowledge about her.

It was only after British prisoner Moazzam Begg mentioned her in his book Cialis Professional Tadalis SX target=”_blank”>The Enemy Combatant that Human Rights Organizations and activists, British journalist Yvonne Ridley and MP Lord Nazir in particular, raised voice for Dr. Aafia kept in solitary confinement and her three children. A cheap Buy buy cialis fast shipping online Viagra diflucan specially disturbing part of this story is that fate of her three children, aged between one month and 7 years at the buy levitra drugs style=”background: Buy Cialis online transparent url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: #006600; text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: buy viagra generic levitra -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: buy phentermine 2px;” name=”AdBriteInlineAd_time” target=”_top”>time of her kidnapping, is still unknown.

Online Cialis buy alt=”Aafia Siddiqui” align=”right” />In 2007, the media started giving Dr. Aafia’s amoxil style=”background: transparent url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: #006600; text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;” viagra name=”AdBriteInlineAd_case” target=”_top”>case more serious attention and several reports were published about her tragic fate. Amnesty International included her on a June 2007 list as someone for whom there was “evidence of secret detention by the United States and whose fate and whereabouts remain unknown.”

Britain’s cheap Cheap Amoxil clomid Buy cialis online online href=”http://www.pakistandost.com/lordnazir.htm”>Lord Nazir Ahmed, (of the House of Lords), asked questions in the House about the condition of Prisoner 650. According to one news story, “He [Lord Nazir] said she is physically tortured and continuously raped by the officers at the prison.” Lord Nazir has also submitted that Prisoner 650 has no separate toilet facilities and has to attend to her bathing and movements in full view of the other prisoners.

And it was on July 6, 2008, when a British buy acomplia journalist, Yvonne Ridley, called for help for a Pakistani woman she believes has been held in isolation by the Americans in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan, for over Kamagra jelly four years. “I call her the ‘grey lady’ because she is almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continues to haunt those who heard her. This would never happen to a Western Woman,” Ms Ridley said at a buy online acomplia target=”_blank”>press conference.

Ms Ridley, who came to Pakistan to appeal for help, said the case came to her attention when she read the book, cheap levitra on line flagyl target=”_blank”>The Enemy Combatant, by a former Guantanamo detainee, Moazzam Begg. After being seized in February 2002 in Islamabad, Mr. Begg was held in detention centres in Kandahar and Bagram for about a Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription style=”background: transparent url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: #006600; text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;” name=”AdBriteInlineAd_year” target=”_top”>year before he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. He recounted his experiences in the book after his release in 2005. Imran levofloxacin Khan, leader of Justice Party (PTI) has also been raising voice, held a Viagra for sale joint press Tadacip -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;” name=”AdBriteInlineAd_conference” href=”http://click.adbrite.com/mb/click.php?sid=377534&banner_id=10807070&variation_id=634771&uts=1222157364&cpc=302e3035&keyword_id=955566&inline=y&zk_id=19206560&ab=171966569&sscup=fad4b1eb6eadcaa7183995e918752c4c&sscra=bd31e8b88a3bd5910aa3f092bace948f&ub=3715693060&guid=e3484910457a0864a18d57d9be9c4e66&rs=&r=” propecia online order generic levitra online viagra target=”_top”>conference with Ms. Ridley on this issue, and criticised where to buy nolvadex without a prescription government of Pakistan for not doing anything and hiding facts viagra female about Prisoner 650.

After these reports in media, the US and Pakistani authorities Viagra gold were buy cheap amoxicillin forced to admit just last week that Dr. Aafia was indeed in US captivity, the Prisoner 650 at Bagram Base.

CNN has released the official version of US Government today and according to Dr. Aafia’s attorney, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, “a lot of the allegations implausible” and argued that the charges “don’t pass the sniff test.” According to CNN:

A Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. officers while in Afghan custody last month was due to cheap Without Prescription online Ampicillin buy appear before a U.S. magistrate judge Tuesday morning in New York
real viagra online href=”http://pakistaniat.com/images/Aafia-Siddiqui/Aafia-FBI-notice.jpg”> Aafia Siddiqui, 424 buy viagra whom the FBI had sought for several years for terrorism, Online Levitra buy faces federal charges of attempted murder and assault of a U.S. officer and U.S. buy levitra employees, federal authorities said.

The 36-year-old American-educated neuroscientist is a suspected member of al Qaeda. If convicted, she faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on each charge. On July 18 Siddiqui shot at two FBI special agents, a U.S. Army warrant officer, an Army captain and military interpreters who unknowingly entered a room where she was being held unsecured at an Afghan facility, officials said.

Siddiqui was behind a curtain buy online viagra viagra | buy cialis for daily use | cheap levitra order when she used buy cialis 10mg an officer’s rifle to shoot at the group, officials said. She shot twice but hit no one, they said. The warrant officer returned fire with a pistol, shooting Siddiqui at least once. She struggled with the officers before she lost consciousness and was then given medical attention. The day before the shootings, Afghan police arrested Siddiqui outside the Ghazni governor’s compound where they found bomb-making instructions, excerpts from the “Anarchist’s Arsenal,” papers with descriptions of U.S. landmarks, and substances sealed in bottles and glass jars, U.S. officials said Monday.

Responding to these allegation, Elaine Whitfield Sharp told DAWN, Geo and CNN:

“This is a very intelligent woman. What where do you buy viagra | buy cialis phentermine | cheap levitra online is she doing outside of the governor’s residence? The woman is a Ph.D. Is a woman like this really that stupid? There is an incongruity and I have trouble accepting the government’s claims,” the attorney said.

“If she was carrying fluids and was considered dangerous, then why was she left unattended in a room behind a curtain? And this dangerous, hardened criminal picks up buy cytotec a gun and misses?”

Dr. Aafia’s sister, Dr. Fauzia, held a press conference today along with Human Rights Activist Iqbal Haider and she urged authorities to presume her sister is innocent and is demanding that the government be required to prove any charges against her “beyond a reasonable doubt.” She appealed to the government of Pakistan, all religious, political parties and human rights organizations to play their active role in bringing her sister back home. At least, they should immediately hand over the children to the family as no law on earth allows that. This is one of the most serious violation of human rights. “I fear a political prosecution to protect the United States from embarrassment, rather than from ‘terrorism,’” Fouzia Siddiqui said. Iqbal Haider severely criticised US and Pakistani Governments and said Online Viagra Shops that they promoting terrorism by doing inhuman acts like this.

I buy ampicillin don’t know if Dr. Aafia has done anything illegal or not but the way she has been picked and handed over to US authorities along with three innocent children buying Online buy Cialis generic propecia is a violation of even basic human rights and human dignity. What happened to the moral values, respect for law and Human Rights? If she has done something wrong, she should have buy cheap drugs been held accountable in the court buy Drugstore cheap online Ampicillin of law and punished. But why detaining her illegally, along with 3 children, with any charge Tadalis SX whatsoever for 5 years?

It should not be forgotten that the missing buy levitra online persons case was a turning point in recent Pakistan politics where Pervez Musharraf had a severe falling out with the then CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry who was investigating this case. After much public agitation on the issue, the Chief Justice ordered that EVERYONE to be produced in court and then charged so that a free and fair trial could be held. Something which couldn’t be done at that time as many of the missing were already handed over to US authorities secretly.

Dr. Aafia’s case buy cialis professional reminds us that how important the rule of law and justice is if we are to survive as a nation. Pakistan should immediately demand US Government to release 3 innocent children picked up with Dr. Aafia and hand them over to her family. Whatever the allegations on her may be, there is no justification whatsoever for kidnapping and detaining three innocent children and keeping them away from their family for 5 years.

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Who is Dr. Aafia Siddiqui?

Sajid Badi-uz-Zaman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:12:13 +0000

Aafia buy Drugstore Online Cialis buy cheap Ampicillin amoxicillin amoxil online Siddiqui was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 2, 1972. She was Viagra generic date one of three children of Tadalis SX Mohammad Siddiqui, propecia a doctor trained in propecia brand England. viagra online She is a mother of three.

Aafia moved to Texas in 1990 to be near her brother, and after spending a year amoxicillin amoxil at the University diflucan of Houston, transferred to MIT. Aafia then married Mohammed amoxil online Amjad Khan, a medical student, and subsequently Viagra Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription online entered Brandeis University as a graduate student in cognitive neuroscience.

424 buy viagra | where to buy cialis without prescription | order online levitra align=”justify”>Citing the difficulty of living as Muslims in the United States after 9/11, Aafia and her buy cialis overseas buying acomplia Cialis”>Brand Cialis husband returned Online Viagra buy to Pakistan. They stayed in Pakistan for a short time, online pharmacy levitra buy acomplia online and then buy Cialis buy levitra vardenafil generic online viagra Buy Cialis Professional Antibiotics medications returned to the United States. They remained there until 2002, and then moved back to Pakistan.

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buy cialis soft align=”justify”>After buy cialis fast shipping giving birth to her son, Aafia stayed at her mother’s house for the rest of buy cialis canadian the year, returning to the US without her children around December order viagra online 2002 to look for a job in the Baltimore area, where her sister had begun working at SinaiHospital.

Soon after Pakistani Cialis online authorities arrested Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Aafia and her children disappeared. A report in the Pakistani Urdu press said that Aafia and her kids had been seen being picked up by Pakistani authorities and taken into custody.

According to Mrs. Siddiqui, Aafia left her mother’s buy cytotec online house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in a Metro-cab on March 30, to catch a flight for Rawalpindi, Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription but never reached the airport. Inside sources amoxicillin claim that Aafia online amoxil “>buy clomid nolvadex had been “picked-up” by intelligence Silagra agencies while on her way to the airport and initial reports suggest she was handed over to the FBI.

Aafia Siddiqui had been missing for more buy real viagra without prescription than a year when the FBI put her photographs on its website. The press was told that she was an Al Qaeda facilitator. After an FBI conference, buy cialis online cheap a newspaper broke the story linking the woman involved in the 2001 diamond trade in Liberia to Aafia. The family’s attorney, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, says the allegation was a blessing in disguise because it places Siddiqui somewhere at a specific time. She says she can prove Siddiqui was in Boston that week.

buy cialis phentermine align=”justify”>In Pakistan, buy clomid online there levitra viagra brand online has been no official report registered with the police regarding her disappearance, and the police are doing nothing to trace her. Mrs. Siddiqui levitra buy cialis generic online online price alleges that an intelligence agency official came to her house a week after the incident, and warned her not to make viagera an issue buy levaquin out of her daughter’s disappearance and Buy doxycycline online threatened her with dire consequences.

Both the Pakistan government as well as US officials in Washington denied any knowledge of Aafia’s custody.

Aafia and her three young children remain missing.

Source: cageprisoners.com

Aafia Siddiqui & Children

Sajid Badi-uz-Zaman — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:43:51 +0000

Name: Aaifa Siddiqui
Nationality: Pakistani
Resident: USA/Pakistan
Married, three children, also missing
UPDATE: 8-3-08 FBI Admits Aafia in custody in Afghanistan

UPDATE: 2006 Report shows US admits having Aafia.[download]

Aafia Siddiqui was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 2, 1972. She was one of three children of Mohammad Siddiqui, a doctor trained in England, and Ismet. She is a mother of three.

Aafia moved to Texas in 1990 to be near her brother, and after spending a year at the University of Houston, transferred to MIT. Aafia then married Mohammed Amjad Khan, a medical student, and subsequently entered Brandeis University as a graduate student in cognitive neuroscience.

Citing the difficulty of living as Muslims in the United States after 9/11, Aafia and her husband returned to Pakistan. They stayed in Pakistan for a short time, and then returned to the United States. They remained there until 2002, and then moved back to Pakistan.

Some problems developed in their marriage, and Aafia was eight months pregnant with their third child when she and Khan were estranged. She and the children stayed at her mother’s house, while Khan lived elsewhere in Karachi.

After giving birth to her son, Aafia stayed at her mother’s house for the rest of the year, returning to the US without her children around December 2002 to look for a job in the Baltimore area, where her sister had begun working at Sinai Hospital.

Soon after Pakistani authorities arrested Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Aafia and her children disappeared. A report in the Pakistani Urdu press said that Aafia and her children had been seen being picked up by Pakistani authorities and taken into custody.

According to Mrs. Siddiqui, Aafia left her mother’s house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in a Metro-cab on March 30, to catch a flight for Rawalpindi, but never reached the airport. Inside sources claim that Aafia had been “picked-up” by intelligence agencies while on her way to the airport and initial reports suggest she was handed over to the FBI.

Aafia Siddiqui had been missing for more than a year when the FBI put her photographs on its website. The press was told that she was an Al Qaeda facilitator. After an FBI conference, a newspaper broke the story linking the woman involved in the 2001 diamond trade in Liberia to Aafia. The family’s attorney, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, says the allegation was a blessing in disguise because it places Siddiqui somewhere at a specific time. She says she can prove Siddiqui was in Boston that week.

She and her children have been missing since 2003. The FBI was given her name by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad under torture. At the time his family was also kidnapped, including his two young children. He knew that, and you can safely assume that they were used to coerce him. One year after her disappearance, the FBI posted her “FBI Seeking Information“.

And…..

(From an informative article at LeftTurn.org) I find that during the course of researching these detainees I begin to see patterns. It’s very very disturbing, because it points out just how far our government will go to support this “war on terror”. It’s beyond belief, The lies that have been manufactured are without a doubt, Orwellian.

As I read about her, I noticed that stories began to change. For instance, “Siddiqui’s professional field is alleged to be microbiology, she is alleged to be divorced from Mohammed Khan, or estranged from him, or he is simply referred to as her husband. Some statements have her obtaining her PhD from MIT, not Brandeis. Some attempt to portray her as a science and computer mastermind, based primarily on one 1996 article she wrote for the MIT Information Systems newsletter and the recurrent false statement that her PhD is in microbiology. Unfounded accusations appear and recede in the US media. They range from Siddiqui brokering a diamond deal in West Africa on behalf of Al Qaeda to her opening a Baltimore post office box for an Al-Qaeda member. Lately, however, there are few mentions of her, of whatever accuracy or motivation. Some renewed media attention in 2006 seems to have dwindled to silence.”

After she disappeared from Pakistan, her family was told not to make her disappearance an issue. (see “Strange Story Of Aafia Siddiqui” linked below)

They tried to contact a family member, then were put under house arrest. A family member flew in to Karachi to check on them. She found a lock on the door, and knocked, at first normally, then after getting no answer, knocked very loudly. When no one answered, the neighbors told her that they were inside, but haven’t been coming out for a long time. She flew back home three days later.

It seems to be that whatever information suits the case against her is the one that is used. There’s a lot out there, and much of it is hype. The stark contrast between what friends, family, and acquaintances is amazing. This is as plain as day,, especially if you’ve been following the detainee issue.

The below links will show you who Aaifa is. It isn’t up to each one of us to judge her, it is up to each one of us to see that she has her day in court. It’s also up to us to ask what happened to the children. The youngest child was only 9 months old! The oldest was 7. Aaifa’s family has not seen or heard from any of them. It is our job to write to our government and demand answers.

In September 2006, Bush announced that, with the transfer of 14 people from the CIA’s secret prison program to military custody in Guantanamo Bay, “There are now no terrorists in the CIA program.” What happened to the other people in CIA detention?

Below are some excellent links:

Who’s Afraid of Aafia Siddiqui?

The strange story of Aafia Siddiqui

Fate and Whereabouts Unknown: Detainees in the “War on Terror” (2005)

This 34-page report provides the names and detailed backgrounds of 28 individuals who may be held in U.S. secret sites. The 28 include well-known terrorism suspects such as Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, as well as individuals who have not been widely reported as among those “disappeared,” including Suleiman Abdalla, Abu Naseem, and Aafia Siddiqui.

The report also draws attention to the connections between extraordinary renditions and disappearances.

The findings of this report have been cited by key actors, including Amnesty International; the Council of Europe Human Rights First

Report on Ghost Detention – Cageprisoners