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Pakistan Gags Aafia Siddiqui Family
After the guilty verdict against Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman charged with attempted murder in the U.S, was announced, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, her attorney, told reporters outside the Federal Court House in New York Wednesday that government of Pakistan had put a gag order on Dr. Siddiqui’s family as a pre-condition to release her son, Ahmed.
Despite all the bravado of Pakistani officials implying that Dr. Siddiqui would be released, this verdict ensures that she will spend a few more decades in U.S. custody.
Sharp told reporters that her client, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was picked up by ISI on March 29, 2003 in Karachi. They arrived in two black cars and placed Siddiqui in one car and the children in another car.
Gross miscarriage of justice: Aafia Siddiqui Innocent victim of prejudice
Aafia Siddiqui has been a victim from that fateful moment when she was kidnapped, and sent to Afghanistan–where she was brutally tortured. Her family also faced horrendous pain. A prejudiced jury has now pronounced her guilt–guilty of a crime of shooting at a marine–when there were no bullet holes, and no fingerpring on the gun–the frail MIT graduate has been pronounced guilty of attacking several armed males, somehow snatching their gun and then shooting at them–when she had no clue about guns.
Hopefully she will will the case on appeal.
NEW YORK: Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist, was found guilty of attempted murder charges on all seven counts listed in the complaint against her. She was tried on charges of trying to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan on July 28, 2008.
Defence highlights lack of coherence in testimony against Dr Aafia Siddiqui
NEW YORK: The trial of Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani scientist charged with shooting at her US interrogators in Afghanistan, moved into the final stage on Monday, with defence lawyers highlighting in their final arguments the lack of coherence in the accounts by prosecution witnesses. After both the prosecution and defence delivered their closing arguments, the 16-member jury went into deliberations to reach a verdict.
According to experts, the verdict could come early next week, although there is no fixed timeframe for the judgement.
The defence’s main argument was that evidence by the prosecution witnesses lacked coherence and their varying accounts were, in fact, contradictory – not only to each other but to themselves. Besides, the defence argued emphatically that there was no physical evidence produced by the prosecution to substantiate charges against Dr Aafia. The prosecution, they stated, tried to create an “atmosphere of fear” by producing handwritten notes by Aafia.
Laws of science do not apply in Aafia Siddiqui case
Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyer says the laws of science do not apply in the case against the Pakistani woman who is charged with attempting to murder US soldiers and FBI agents.
Siddiqui is accused of grabbing a US warrant officer’s M-4 rifle in a police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan and firing two shots at FBI agents and military personnel when being interrogated for her alleged possession of documents detailing a ‘terrorist’ plan.
On Monday, Siddiqui’s lawyer Linda Moreno said in the final stages of her trial in the Manhattan Federal Court that the “science” supported her testimony that she didn’t touch the weapon or fire it, The Wall Street Journal reported.
US frame-up of Aafia Siddiqui begins to unravel
Pakistani victim of rendition and torture
By Ali Ismail
1 February 2010
Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui went on trial in a federal courtroom in New York City on January 19, charged with the attempted murder of US personnel in Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province in 2008. The case against Dr. Siddiqui, 37, is rapidly unraveling due to lack of evidence and discordant testimony from witnesses.
It is becoming increasingly evident that the charges amount to a frame-up that has been staged to cover up the fact that Siddiqui, along with her eldest son, had been held without charges in the US military’s notorious Bagram prison in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2008 where they were subjected to torture. Two of Dr. Siddiqui’s younger children are still missing.
Summations Hours Away in Siddiqui Trial
Closing remarks are scheduled to be heard on Monday afternoon in the trial of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman charged with attempted murder of American Citizens, at a police station in Ghazni province, Afghanistan.
Although there are no terrorism related charges brought against Siddiqui, nor is she charged with any connections to Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or Osama bin Laden, these allegations have been cleverly interwoven in the attempted murder charges. The Prosecution does not have to prove them nor can she respond to them, as they are not the charges she is on trial for. Yet terrorism frames the Prosecution’s entire case.
Thus in closing remarks the Prosecution is likely to once again tell the story of how a would be terrorist tried to pick up a soldiers M4 rifle and shoot at a group of American soldiers and FBI officials who had come to interrogate her at a police station in Ghazni, about documents found in her possession including pictures of New York landmarks and notes about how to make a dirty bomb. As irrational an attempt as it may appear to be they will tell the jury that while shooting she shouted “I want to kill Americans” or “Allah ul-Akbar”, like the many irrational suicide bombers who came before her. Then they will tell, how, in order to save the lives of the heavily armed group, one soldier returned fire shooting Siddiqui in the abdomen. Despite the fact that she had expressed her hatred for Americans and desire to kill them, the U.S.
Jury To Decide Fate of Aafia Siddiqui
As closing remarks came to an end and jury deliberations began in the trial of female Pakistani, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who faces 7 count assault and attempted murder charges in a New York Court room, for an alleged shooting incident in Ghazni Afghanistan, many spectators are wondering if it is possible for her to have a fair trial in post 9-11 America.
Although she is not charged with terrorism, the Prosecution was able to make that claim the underpinning of its entire case, due in large part to Judge Richard Berman’s decision to allow into evidence documents found in Dr. Siddiqui’s possession which include handwritten notes about “how to make a dirty bomb” and plans to cause “mass casualties” in the United States. The defense Attorney, Charles Swift said it was a legally “flawed” decision and will be the basis on an appeal if Dr. Siddiqui is not acquitted.
Aafia Siddiqui Trial: Jury Can Start Deliberation On Monday
Jury in Dr. Aafia Siddiqui trial is likely to begin deliberations Monday afternoon after prosecution and defense attorneys make closing statements.
In a taped video deposition presented by defense on Friday, Bashir, an Afghan police officer testified that he saw an American officer walk behind the curtain just before he heard gun shots, and that he never saw Dr. Siddiqui pick up a gun. Bashir was the last defense witness.
Earlier in the day Judge Richard Berman allowed prosecution to produce additional witnesses to rebut claims made by the defense witnesses and experts.
Aafia Siddiqui Trial Day Three
by Petra Bartosiewicz
This week the long awaited trial of Aafia Siddiqui began in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. Her case has been one of the most baffling in the annals of post-9/11 terrorism prosecutions. Siddiqui, as regular readers of this website know, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist, who lived in the U.S. for ten years before mysteriously vanishing from Karachi, her hometown, in 2003, along with her three children, two of whom are American born. For five years her whereabouts remained unknown, while rumors swirled that she was an Al Qaeda operative, and that she had married Ammar al Baluchi, the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and one of the five accused 9/11 plotters expected to face trial in the U.S. In July 2008 she was picked up in Ghazni, Afghanistan on suspicion of being a suicide bomber. The following day, as a team of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents arrived to question her at the police station where she was being held, she allegedly managed to get hold of an M-4 automatic rifle belonging to one of the soldiers, and, according to prosecutors, she opened fire. She hit no one but was herself hit in the abdomen by return fire.
Senate body seeks Musharraf’s trial for turning over Dr Aafia Siddiqui to US
ISLAMABAD: Senate standing committee Cheap Cialis on Interior and political leadership has called upon the government to use all options to ensure return of Dr Aafia Siddiqui buyviagra to home besides initiating action Buy Revia Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed against those found responsible for handing over her to US.
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Senator professor Sajid Mir demanded those who had handed over Dr Aafia Siddiqui propecia to US be held accountable.
Professor cheap buy Drugstore online Ampicillin Ibrahim of JI stressed no such US aid be accepted Viagra online delivery which could provide opportunity to Americans to insult Pakistani nation.
Representative of Defence Human Rights Khalid Khawaja said “we have proved to US that Buy Ampicillin buy cheap Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription we are levaquin weak therefore, it metes out treatment to us of its own choice.
Barrister cheap diflucan Iqbal Jaffri buy phentermine alleged former president Pervez Musharraf and the then IG Sindh Kamal Shah were responsible for kidnapping and buy cialis tablets turning over Dr Aafia Siddiqui to US therefore, they should be put to tr buy real viagra without prescription | buy cialis fast shipping | low price levitra buy online viagra viagra ial.
Dr Aafia Siddiqui case could stand quashed if Pakistani court made such request to US court, he added.
He charged Pakistani Buy Erectile Dysfunction medications officials had minted commission out of fee amounting to buy buy cialis pills online buy brand viagra viagra without prescription 2 million dollars paid by government of Pakistan flagyl generic to US lawyers to contest Dr Aafia Siddiqui case.
Talking to media men later chairman standing committee Talha Mehmood said if US wanted to improve its Kamagra Buy synthroid online image then it should release Dr Aafia Siddiqui unconditionally. Media is main weapon in our hands by means of which we had already online levitra buy buy acomplia amoxil brought back purchase viagra five citizens from the brink viagra buy viagra online | cheapest place to buy cialis | buy cheap levitra of death in Saudi Arabia, he remarked.
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