US prosecutors allege Aafia faked mental illness
NEW YORK – A US prosecutor said Thursday that two government psychiatrists had concluded that Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan, had been faking her symptoms of mental illness.
An earlier court-ordered psychological evaluation had concluded that Ms. Siddiqui, 37, was unfit for trial as [...]
