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PROSECUTION ADMIT NO EVIDENCE IN AAFIA SIDDIQUI CASE – TRIAL UPDATE

By Yvonne Ridley

“Why is there even a trial?” It was, of course, a rhetorical buy viagra soft amoxil question and probably the most poignant and telling cheap Ampicillin online buy Drugstore observation made during the opening proceedings against Dr Aafia Siddiqui in New Viagra generic York this week. It is a question where to buy nolvadex online I hope every US journalist and media group across the world keeps on buy cialis online usa asking every day as American tax dollars are squandered persecuting an innocent women for no other reason than someone is incapable of saying: “I made a mistake”.

I buy real viagra without prescription don’t know who this individual is, other than he is very senior in US intelligence and is directly responsible for ordering the kidnap, rendition, torture and abuse of Dr Aafia and the disappearance of her three children. In his drive to cover his own tracks Cialis pricing and frame Dr Aafia she ended up being shot several times by US guards in an Afghan police cell in the province of Ghazni. Initially, he may generic levaquin have done nothing more than sign a piece of paper which brought about her kidnap from Karachi way back in March 2003 – but by now he will know that the entire Muslim world is watching and waiting to see what happens when the trial gets underwa buy cialis fast shipping y for real on Tuesday, January 19.

Despite the judge’s futile attempts to keep switching and changing order amoxil pre-trial hearings, supporters of Dr Aafia still manage to fill the spectator gallery and overspill room. Judge Richard Berman will by now be buy cialis domain acutely aware he is handling one of the most sensitive cases ever brought before a court in the entire history of George W Bush’s ill-fated War on Terror. I know he has received hundreds of postcards from those who have attended Cageprisoners meetings buy cialis overseas demanding buy buy levitra vardenafil cialis online cheap he uses his influence to stop the primitive and brutal strip searches Dr Aafia Buy super ed trial pack online has been forced to endure every Buy Diflucan Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed time she meets with her legal team and attends court.

Should she resist these searches, I can tell you having witnessed CCTV footage fo a woman prisoner doing the same, Dr Aafia will be held down by around four to five Buy Viagra online male weight loss acomplia prison warders while two female officers tear away at her clothes and then carry out full cavity searches. What I witnessed on CCTV footage is tantamount to order Cialis online buy generic cytotec rape and had I not seen it with my own eyes, levitra online I would have thought it was filmed in a third world country. Sadly this primitive practice and the pleas of hundreds, buy cheap propecia if not thousands of westerners viagra with no prescription to Judge Berman to have the practice viagera stop, have yet to take effect.

The trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, January 19 at 9am in the Federal cheap amoxil Court in Manhattan, New York where Online Viagra buy the frail Pakistani amoxicillin amoxil mother-of-three faces charges for an alleged crime which buy cialis ebay find tadalafil happened in Afghanistan in July 2008. The pre-trial natural viagra hearing on Monday was quite illuminating in itself after the prosecution:

ADMITTED Dr Aafia is not a member of al-Qaida.
REVEALED she has no links to any terrorist organization.
STATED there were no fingerprints on the gun she was supposed to have wrested sanofi acomplia order 424 buy viagra | where to buy cialis without prescription | order online levitra Buy cheap Cialis Online diflucan from one of the soldiers.
CONCEDED no bullets were recovered from the cell.

The defense complained that the prosecution had still not turned over the list of witnesses they intend to call so defense lawyers have no buy Ampicillin Without Prescription cheap online idea who those witnesses are. It had previously been agreed that the legal team representing Dr Aafia would get those names at least one levitra pharmacy canada week before the start Buy Viagra online of trial.

Dr Cialis amoxicillin amoxil Aafia’s Buy Antibiotics medications lawyers requested once again that she be spared the strip searches cheapest levitra drugs propecia and have cheap ampicillin buy a video link.  The judge said he wanted now for her to have the right to confront her accuser so she must be forced to court. (It should be noted that the defense made the argument that if Aafia’s ability to face her accusers is so paramount, why is this not applied to the “evidence” when those who accuse her of having this evidence are not being brought to court and so she has no right to confront them? However she still must be strip searched and brought to trial against her will for the sake of this same right.

At levitra website the conclusion of the hearing, Buy Cialis buy cialis pharmacy Aafia made one appeal to the public saying that she was for peace and wanted to help.  She said that she was not against America and many injustices are being done to her. Many people in the audience cried as the US Marshalls again forcibly removed her, physically pushing her at times. The defense lawyers pleaded with the US Marshalls and the MDC prison legal representative, Christa Colvin, to allow even a 5 minute meeting between Aafia and her brother but the US marshals refused. When her brother attempted to say a few words to her, the marshals turned Aafia’s head away so she could not respond.

So, this is justice US style. The Viagra online prescription case, outlined by the prosecution appears to be so buy levitra thin it is anorexic. It all rests on whether this tiny framed, frail woman wrestled an assault rile from the hands of a burly buy cialis cheap US soldier and fired off two rounds while she was in a dazed and confused state.

The fact that she was kidnapped from her home city in Pakistan at the behest of US intelligence, beaten, tortured and abused in Bagram for several years before being dumped outside the governor of Ghazni’s home five years later is not up for discussion.

The fact her three children, two of the US citizens, were also viagra Viagra Professional online kidnapped and two of them are still missing is, apparently not relevant either.

All Judge Berman wants to establish is: “Did Aafia wrestle the gun for a US soldier with canadian Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription Gold”>Kamagra Gold viagra online the intent to shoot him?”

And since there’s no forensic evidence tying Dr Aafia to the gun, there seems to be no case. No fingerprints, no bullets, no residue – NOTHING.<

The prosecution has even conceded there are no terror links which blows the New York tabloids’ headlines calling her the flagyl price ‘Al-Qaida Mom’.

As I said at the start of this article the rhetorical question asked by one observer was probably the most poignant one of the day: “Why is there even a trial.”

But here’s an even better question I challenge the US media to ask: “Who is responsible for putting this innocent women through six years of hell and where are her missing children?”

* Yvonne Ridley is a patron of Cageprisoners, the first human rights organization which highlighted the mystery disappearance of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in 2003 and has campaigned for her release ever since. order cialis

Jan 19 named ‘Free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Day’ by a rights body

NEW YORK: A New York-based Pakistani civil rights organization generic levitra amoxil generic has designated January 19 as “Free Dr. Aafia buy cheap cialis Viagra super active pills Siddiqui Day”, and to hold a demonstration outside a federal court where the 0nline pharmacy U.S.-trained neuroscientist price Kamagra Soft diflucan generic nolvadex online goes on trial.The Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum (PAKUSAFF) called on human rights activists to join the demonstration in large numbers buy viagra order viagra | buy cialis online in usa | levitra buy href=”http://ampicillin-pills.com”>buy Ampicillin online Without Prescription buy amoxicillin cheap Ampicillin buy Drugstore Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription online buy penicillin cheap to demand the release of Ms. Siddiqui, 37, who is charged with shooting at her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan.

It Buy levitra buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription also called on people buy buy real viagra without prescription | buy cialis fast shipping | low price levitra acomplia propecia cheap all over Buy online Levitra the world to stage rallies to press for justice in her case.

“We will call for justice from order levitra United States Government and ask to release her as there is buy generic Buy levitra professional online female viagra cialis no basis Provigil pharmacy to keep her in detention,” the Forum said in a statement signed by Dr. Mohammed Shafique, online amoxil cytotec buy cialis online in usa purchase its president, and Shahid Comrade, the Secretary Buy Viagra Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed generic Viagra online buy levaquin order buy cheap levitra online levitra antibiotic flagyl General.

The statement said that Dr Sidiqui was a levitra pharmacodynamics “victim viagra the diet pills order Viagra Viagra buy brand viagra onl buy buyviagra real viagra without prescription ine online viagra online canadian Viagra pharmacy of torture and abuse, and has been kept in jail on false accusations and allegations”.

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US should release Dr Aafia under Geneva Convention: Dr Fauzia Siddiqui

ISLAMABAD: Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, sister of DR Aafia levitra pharmacologic class Siddiqui, has demanded of the American government buy buy ampicillin Kamagra jelly levitra Cheap Accutane vardenafil amoxil amoxicillin Viagra 424 buy viagra levitra to release Dr Aafia Buy female cialis online first under generic levitra the Geneva Convention Cialis Professional and then demand release buy cialis of generic flagyl the five detained Americans under the same law.

Dr. Fauzia was talking cheap buy cheap amoxicillin online buy Without Prescription Ampicillin to a private TV channel here on Saturday. She said that the buy real order buy viagra buy pfizer viagra online | buy cialis pills online | buy levitra vardenafil buy levitra drugs levitra online levitra viagra online cialis soft tabs viagra Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed Online Cialis buy buy Ampicillin buy online viagra viagra | buy cialis for daily use | cheap levitra order online Drugstore cheap levaquin cheap online online American nolvadex order rulers are now demanding the release viagra Buy Buy where Levitra Professional do you buy viagra | buy cialis phentermine | cheap levitra online online Viagra Cialis online female href=”http://spropecia-online.net”>online propecia of the five detained Americans under the Geneva Convention levitra costs and they have already buy cialis tablets violated the Online Viagra Shops law by arresting Dr Aafia. viagra Buy buy levitra buy acomplia Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription cheap diflucan She questioned to US that is the law only implemented on us and not on America.

She low price levitra said that Tadacip Tadalis SX the US judge has already said that they do not accept the Geneva Convention, Viagra for sale if the Americans are not accepting it, then why are they demanding release of their five Americans under the same law. She said that America pretends itself Czar and is free to act whatever it wanted and now it is torturing Online buy cialis fast shipping buy Cialis Dr Afia cheap the diet pills propecia Siddiqui. buy cheap buy phentermine drugs She said that our government should be ashamed and demanded of the US government that first release Dr Aafia under the Geneva Convention.

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Cageprisoners Report – Aafia Siddiqui: a case of lies and inconsistencies

The case buy propecia cheap of Aafia Siddiqui cytotec buy levitra pfizer has brought with it a wave of emotion from all corners of the world. The detention of this woman, and allegedly her children, buy online nolvadex has evoked condemnation from politicians, lawyers and activists all Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription over the world. In an environment viagra purchase where the abuses in the ‘War on Terror’ are becoming increasingly known, the case of Siddiqui stands as an anomaly within the new era of openness under the Obama administration.

From the day Buy online Viagra of her initial detention, no information regarding Aafia Siddiqui seems buy real viagra without prescription consistent, especially in relation to information released by cheap kamagra the US administration. Her various alleged Levitra Professional buy cialis online in usa href=”http://onlineacompliacheap.net”>rimonabant persona buy order levitra buy cialis Online buy Cialis cheap buy amoxil cheap Drugstore Ampicillin online can give the impression of an extremely high level Al Qaeda operative. However, at the same time, the statements of lawyers, family and friends render her incapable of any acts of terrorism.

The purpose diflucan buy merck propecia generic of buy cialis daily buy cheapest viagra online | buy cialis with no prescription | cheap levitra generic this piece cheapest levitra is to try and separate the facts of Provigil pharmacy flagyl Buy Elavil online without prescription online Siddiqui’s life from the fiction, and as a result, show that the lies that have Ampicillin online been told about her are completely amoxil buy cialis online cheap online inconsistent with her treatment.
Exposing Buy Cialis online the truth in the Online Levitra buy case of Aafia Siddiqui is of the utmost importance to all those Viagra hangover who believe in the value of due process and the rule generic levaquin of law. For six years, this Buy cheap levitra online Antibiotics medications mother of three has been placed cheapest acomplia through some of cheap Ampicillin online buy Without Prescription the most unimaginable forms of generic levitra detention, all due to her religious convictions. It is now time for her Viagra Jelly to be released without charge and to be reunited with her children and repatriated buy levitra vardenafil back to Pakistan.

Dr Aafia levitra Online Cialis buy tadalafil pharmacy canada siddiqui was detained in secret detention for five years in Bagram an buy cialis fast shipping d faced buying viagra horrendous amoxicillin abuses there. She has now been transferred to the US to face trial. This 424 buy viagra | where to buy cialis without prescription | order online levitra href=”http://aviagraforsale.net/item.php?name=Levitra”>Levitra report examines the lies and inconsistencies in the viagra sales US case against her.

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Aafia Siddiqui vows to boycott her trial in January

NEW YORK, Nov 20 (APP): A federal judge Thursday rejected a defence lawyers’ walmart pharmacy cheapest acomplia levitra plea that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui could not be tried in the United viagra Buy tenormin online female States as they pointed out that the Pakistani neuroscientist’s buy cialis fast shipping Jelly”>Cialis Jelly alleged crime took place Tadalis SX outside the country, while she vowed to boycott her January trial.

Ms. Siddiqui, amoxil online 37, is languishing buy cialis now in a New viagra prices York jail on charges of attacking US interrogators in Afghanistan in July 2008 generic diflucan generic amoxil and was brought to New York in U.S. custody the following month.

No American buy proscar was injured but she was shot in the abdomen and was charged with attempted murder and assault.
In a pre-trial hearing on Thursday, her lawyers, buy levitra Viagra discount led by Charles Swift, argued how the diet pills buying propecia to buy cialis that Dr. Siddiqui could only be flagyl generic buy buy cialis for daily use pfizer viagra online | buy cialis pills online | buy levitra vardenafil levitra price online tried on terrorism charges 424 buy viagra in the U.S., and not on murder charges.

In this regard, he quoted various international regulations.

But U.S. District Judge Richard Berman ruled out the motion, saying Viagra Professional that that US courts have jurisdiction if American citizens were subjected Online Viagra buy Jelly”>Viagra Jelly to attacks abroad, citing some precedents. But Ms. Siddiqui interrupted her lawyers in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to announce buy cialis with no prescription that she did not plan to participate in her trial, scheduled for Jan. 19.

“I am boycotting this trial,” she declared. “I am innocent of all the charges and I can prove it, buy cialis by the pill but buy Without Buy cheapest viagra Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription Prescription Ampicillin online cheap I will not do it in this court.”

Since Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription the very beginning, Ms. Siddiqui has said that she has no confidence in the American judicial system or Buy Cheap Viagra Soft Tabs – Order Viagra Soft Tabs Online! the lawyers appointed for her by the court—even those cheap Drugstore buy online Ampicillin retained by the government of Cialis Cheap Propecia online Pakistan—and that she wants to make peace and knows how to do it.

She has vigorously protested against what she called humiliating strip searches before she is brought Viagra online deals to the court. Judge Berman said that her trial would proceed after her lawyers and prosecutors visit Afghanistan to interview eye witnesses to finalize their case.

Lawyers for Ms. Siddiqui tried to convince the court that she was mentally incompetent to stand trial, citing in part her refusal to cooperate with lawyers and the reports of a psychologist who said she suffers from delusional disorder and depression. Online buy kamagra pills Viagra Shops Judge Berman rejected that argument after prosecutors pointed to psychological reports that concluded buy ampicillin buy Levitra Professional levitra online she was faking mental illness.

Berman on Thursday rejected defence Online Cialis buy “>buy discount nolvadex arguments aimed at tossing out charges against Ms. Siddiqui that carry a potential minimum prison sentence of price levitra 30 years cytotec uses and a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Before he ruled on the request, Siddiqui said visits by her lawyers were “torture for me” and it was a buy cheap drugs waste real viagra online of money for lawyers to go to Afghanistan to Buy Zoloft Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed interview witnesses because she generic levitra was not participating in the trial.

“I’m not dealing with them anymore,” buy cheap amoxicillin Siddiqui said of her lawyers. “They’re just people coming to my door and low price levitra talking, talking, Viagra online href=”http://amoxil-cheap.net”>amoxicillin talking.” During a break, Siddiqui was led out of the courtroom by U.S. marshals when she would not stop talking loudly. “Take me out,” she said. “I’m not coming back.” She was not present when buy levitra drugs levaquin prescription the judge made his decision.

SOURCE: App.com.pk

Aafia Siddiqui’s story… Farfetched? Not according to a declassified DoD Inspector General’s report

“Why do they hate us?” This simple, yet loaded five word question has literally outperformed the thousands of answers that have been put forth. This is because comprehensive responses are rarely as powerful as a simple question. Aafia Siddiqui’s case suffers from the very same dynamic; it is complex, it is detailed and it raises disturbing issues that reach far and wide.

Consider the following claims against the U.S. and allied/contracted forces:

1)      Abduction of a mother and her three children with the children used for extortion

2)      Long term captivity in secret prisons

3)      Rape, torture, mental and physical abuse

4)      Use of elaborate disorientation and false flag techniques

This laundry list is definitely sensational enough for a kneejerk rejection from the average American patriot. However, what are we to think when these very same allegations are listed in a recently declassified Department of Defense’s Inspector General’s report entitled Review of DoD-Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse[i]?

There are other serious questions surround this impending trial:

  1. Why is she considered such a high profile suspect when the charges against her are not related to terrorism[ii]?
  2. What caused the interest in Siddiqui in the first place?
  3. How long has she been in custody?
  4. Where have her children been all this time?
  5. Who was responsible for them?
  6. Did we outsource her and her children’s detention and interrogation to other nations?

Despite all these issues, there is one central theme in Siddiqui’s ordeal. It holds true regardless of ones status as a supporter or detractor.  As an American, the one inescapable question is: how we, the U.S., treated and continue to treat her.

How Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was and will be treated matters

Why? The reasons are plentiful, but let us examine one of our more important relationships: Pakistan, a strategically vital U.S. ally. Pakistan is a nation that seems to continuously suffer from regime changes, political assassinations and other stability issues; these are conditions conducive to the widespread popular support that Aafia Siddiqui is receiving.

Siddiqui has been transformed from a “U.S. person of interest,” into a galvanizing symbol of the Pakistani people. Her growing status as a focal point of that nation’s pride and desire for true sovereignty is evident. The streets are regularly flooded with pro-Aafia rallies and demonstrations that on occasion number in the tens of thousands. Popular singers, poets and artists continue to release tributes to Siddiqui as their chosen symbol for all of Pakistan’s missing persons and other popular, pro-Pakistani sentiments. Siddiqui’s story serves as a common rallying point for both Pakistan’s secular and religious as well as for their conservatives and their liberals. Aafia Siddiqui’s case has even overcome bitter rivalries between Pakistan’s competing political movements.

Siddiqui’s status is growing in influence, even transcending Pakistani politics and reaching the broader Muslim world as new and persistent allegations of abuse surface against the U.S. These allegations, especially when women and children are involved, undermine our standing in the world and provoke very serious and avoidable diplomatic problems.

This report legitimizes the hard to accept claims put forth by Aafia Siddiqui’s supporters.

It can no longer be claimed that abusive ‘interrogation techniques’ and assaults on detainees have not been either approved or perpetrated by our servicemen and contractors. This is the second reason that U.S. treatment of Aafia Siddiqui is the central issue of this case; it is directly related to our values as Americans.

To illustrate the point, let us examine the claims made by Aafia Siddiqui’s supporters with the DoD report’s findings:

CLAIM 1: The abduction of a mother and her three children/ children used for extortion

  • REPORT: The use of scenarios designed to convince the detainee that death or severely painful consequences are imminent for him and/or his family:… - pg 36

CLAIM 2: Long term captivity in secret prisons

  • REPORT: CIA detainees in Abu Ghraib, known locally as “Ghost Detainees,” were not accounted for in the detention system. With these detainees unidentified or unaccounted for, detention operations at large were impacted because personnel at the operations level were uncertain how to report or classify detainees. – pg 59
  • REPORT: …DoD temporarily held detainees for the CIA – including the detainee known as “Triple-X” – without properly registering them and providing notification to the International Committee of the Red Cross. This practice of holding “ghost detainees” for the CIA was guided by oral, ad hoc agreements… - pg 78

CLAIM 3: Rape, torture, mental and physical abuse

  • REPORT: At the extremes were the death of a detainee in OGA custody, an alleged rape committed by a US translator and observed by a female Soldier, and the alleged sexual assault of a female detainee. - pg 59

CLAIM 4: Use of elaborate disorientation and false flag techniques

  • REPORT: …military personnel improperly interfered with FBI interrogators in the performance of their FBI duties. – pg 86
  • REPORT: False Flag: Convincing the detainee that individuals from a country other than the United States are interrogating him. - pg 97
  • REPORT: …our interviews with DoD personnel assigned to various detention facilities throughout Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrated that they did not have a uniform understanding of what rules governed the involvement of OGAs in the interrogation of DoD detainees. That DoD interrogators improperly impersonated FBI agents and Department of State officers during the interrogation of detainees. – pg 86

How our nation treats its detainees will continue to become more and more significant during the progression of Aafia Siddiqui’s trial. It will be a reoccurring theme in all similar trials as well. Regardless of verdicts, our treatment of detainees if not addressed properly will continue to degrade our nation’s image and standing in the world. This fact cannot be tempered by our stance on the all important and most immediate question of when did the U.S. take custody of Aafia? There are enough claims of mistreatment for either scenario of when Siddiqui came under U.S. authority.

Supporters contend that Aafia was abducted and handed over to U.S. Authorities in April 2003. This claim is supported by an NBC News clip available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xwCHha5ITM . This claim is corroborated by Siddiqui’s family’s statements expressing their belief that she was dead from 2003 until her capture in Afghanistan.

While convenient, it should be noted that the NBC and other media reports of Aafia’s abduction in 2003 have been denied/contested[iii].

What is certain is that once captured in Afghanistan, Siddiqui has been shuffled between mental and maximum security facilities, both with documented histories of abuse especially toward Muslims[iv] [v] and women[vi] inmates.

Currently, despite the fact that she is held in solitary confinement, under video surveillance, Siddiqui under goes regular, forced, strip searches, when making any outside contact – effectively denying her reasonable access to her attorneys. It is also a matter of record that after Siddiqui was officially in U.S. custody, she was shot by U.S. personal in Ghazni, Afghanistan and that the medical care she needed was at best delayed and inadequate[vii].

For most American’s, there might just be too many allegations against the U.S. for us to sallow. This type of thinking will miss the lessons that are to be learned as information comes to light. Siddiqui’s case, how she was treated and what we will do about it going forward, will define, in part, our capability for leadership in the world. Most importantly, it will serve as a window for who we are or who we have become.

PLEASE NOTE: Aafia is due in court tomorrow, Nov. 3. Those who are able are encouraged to attend! Details here.


[i] http://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/abuse.pdf

[ii] http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/September/08-nsd-765.html

[iii] http://therepublicofrumi.com/archives/aafia01.htm

[iv] http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/05/19/maddy/index.html

[v] http://cryptome.org/bop-abuse.htm

[vi] http://www.aclutx.org/article.php?aid=252

[vii] http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSN11499491

SOURCE: Muslimmatters.org

Eid Reflections from Aafia Siddiqui’s Family

A message to all friends, supporters and people of conscience everywhere:

Thank you to Buy propecia online each one of you for extending to Aafia and to us, her family, Buy vpxl online the hand of friendship during this trying and difficult time.

Thank you for your prayers, your words of comfort to Aafia and to each member of our family. And, praise be to God for all He has done by bringing such blessings into our lives through each one of you. We will not lose hope so long as our faith in God and the light of your brave hearts burns brightly for

Aafia and for us.

A victim of U.S. torture : Free Aafia Siddiqui

By Sara Flounders
New York

Published Sep 13, 2009 10:13 PM

Now that the buy brand viagra documents recording the systematic torture of thousands of prisoners in secret U.S. prisons have been released to the world media in U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Aug. 24 report, the secret documents on the imprisonment and torture of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui must also be released.

Days before Siddiqui, a woman weighing less than 90 pounds, was again forcibly brought into United States District Court in Manhattan on contradictory charges of trying Viagra in canada to murder FBI agents in Afghanistan, cheap nolvadex online these documents of what the FBI and CIA are really doing in Afghanistan and in secret prisons around the world were referenced in major news stories for all to read.

Siddiqui has been held in secret detention since she was kidnapped order viagra in Pakistan at the age of 30. The now 36-year-old, U.S.-educated, Pakistani neuroscientist continues in court Viagra pharmacy to say that she has been tortured. She has refused to Online buy Viagra accept visits even from Buy online Levitra appointed defense lawyers because the brutal and humiliating strip searches that she is subjected to are so personally and culturally degrading and excruciatingly painful.

Siddiqui has wounds and scars from her sternum to her lower abdomen after being shot by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Her charges of being tortured for years are hardly groundless. These acts are documented again and again on every page of the newly-released documents.

Tens of thousands of pages confirm in the most amoxicillin graphic details that CIA interrogators Viagra online threatened to kill the children of detainees; threatened sexual assaults; threatened bound prisoners with guns and an electric drill; used water boarding against Buy Erectile Dysfunction medications one prisoner 183 times; used shocking into unconsciousness, brutal strip searches, mock executions, confinement in a tiny box and continued buy generic levitra slamming of the head.

Holder announced on Aug. 29 the appointment of a special federal prosecutor to investigate the interrogation practices of the CIA. These new documents represent the largest release of information about the Bush administration’s once-secret system of capturing terrorism suspects and interrogating them in undisclosed locations around the world.

An ACLU lawsuit compelled the release of the CIA’s own 2004 Inspector General’s internal report on stomach-turning interrogations. These documents of “enhanced interrogation” tactics were heavily ‘redacted’ or censored with whole pages blocked out for “security reasons.”

This 2004 report shows that the CIA kept detailed observational records on thousands of prisoners and the impact of their torture techniques on the human buy cheap levitra buy cytotec generic psyche. They made systematic measurements of the prisoners’ reactions to torture. From the censured documents it is clear that medical doctors and psychologists betrayed Ampicillin buy cialis professional buy cheap Without Prescription online their professions by monitoring calibrated, incremental increases of torture to bring about excruciating pain, terror, humiliation and shame. The documents make it clear that all tortures were designed to create a systematic emotional and psychological breakdown in the interrogated prisoners.

Held in secret prisons

Aafia Kamagra Soft online viagra order Siddiqui is a graduate of  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University. She is a deeply devout Muslim, who had been supportive of Muslim charities in Boston. On March 30, 2003, during a trip home to Karachi to visit her mother, she was kidnapped and “disappeared,” along with her three children.

Human rights organizations had long demanded that U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies account for her disappearance. Human Rights Watch, a year before she was shot and flown to the U.S., considered her among those held at a “CIA black site”—a amoxil online secret prison.

U.S. officials denied any knowledge of her for five years. But as far back as propecia brand April 2003, the Press Trust of India reported that she had been arrested in Karachi and was being questioned by the FBI. U.S. intelligence sources at levitra online pills that time confirmed that Siddiqui was “essentially in the hands of the FBI now.”

Siddiqui’s family retained U.S. best viagra online attorney Elaine Whitfield Sharp of Massachusetts to try to disc buy order online levitra real viagra without prescription over her location and to serve as their spokeswoman to the media. She had been filing cases seeking information in U.S. courts ever since Siddiqui’s disappearance.

Millions of people in Pakistan and throughout the Muslim world, along with many human rights groups, always believed that the U.S. government forces and the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan had captured and tortured her and were holding her in secret prisons in Pakistan or Afghanistan. Many believe that she was the prisoner described as the Grey buy cialis online cheap Lady of Bagram Prison at the U.S. Air Base in Afghanistan. Prisoners released from secret detention at Bagram described cheapest acomplia hearing the continuing howls of a woman prisoner being repeatedly raped and tortured. According to The Viagra online Daily Times of Pakistan, “The cries of this helpless woman echoed with such torment in the jail that it prompted prisoners to go on hunger strike.” (July 7, 2008)

A growing number of media in the region buyviagra began reporting that Siddiqui had been in Bagram for the last five years, and calls for her release were escalating.

Contradictory charges

levofloxacin On Aug. 4, 2008, the U.S. government suddenly announced that Siddiqui had been arrested on July 17 and charged with attempted murder and assault of U.S. officers and employees. She was then flown to the U.S. in the custody of FBI agents.

Attorney levitra online pharmacy Sharp told the New York Times, “We believe Aafia has been in U.S. custody ever since she disappeared.” buy viagra order viagra | buy cialis online in usa | levitra buy (Aug. 5, 2008)

In another interview with Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific, she said: “We do know she was at Bagram for a long time. According to my client she was there for years and she was held in American custody; her treatment was horrendous.” (www.asia-pacific-action.org, Aug. 7)

A series cheapest viagra of contrary reports claimed that U.S. soldiers, trying to take her from Afghan police who had arrested her in Ghazni, a city in central Afghanistan, had shot her after she managed shop cialis to grab an M-4 rifle and shoot at two FBI agents. propecia Neither agent was wounded.

How this 90-pound prisoner surrounded by both U.S. soldiers and Afghan police accomplished this was never explained. Other reports were that she was shot in the abdomen because U.S. soldiers feared she was a suicide bomber.

Neither the Afghan nor U.S. reports of how, when or even where Siddiqui was captured correspond with each other. The U.S. version claims she had maps of New York City targets Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription in her handbag. Afghan officials claim the maps were of Afghan targets. What is known is that Siddiqui has been horribly brutalized and has been held in total isolation now for a year in U.S. prisons with terrible, life-threatening injuries.

The case has generated outrage all over the Muslim world. Dr. Siddiqui has become a symbol of the thousands of those who have “disappeared” and been tortured by expanding U.S. wars in the region.

Dr. Siddiqui has been brought into court in a wheelchair. This writer heard her tell the court buy Drugstore Ampicillin online cheap in her weak voice that she was tortured, kept in extreme isolation and forced buy levitra online to listen to threats on the lives Buy Lasix Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed of her children. She was shown a picture of her son lying in a pool of his own blood.

Siddiqui’s 12-year-old son has recently been released to her family. Her 11-year-old daughter is still unaccounted for. It is believed that her youngest, an infant at the time of Siddiqui’s disappearance, died in custody.

Court hearings on Siddiqui’s sanity ruled that she was fit to stand trial, although she was found to be delusional and depressed. U.S. attorney William Ruskin stated to the court that information Cheap Cialis Viagra online buy about where she was for five amoxil generic years is “not relevant to these proceedings.”

levitra buying Pakistan’s parliament unanimously passed a resolution that demanded immediate information on the whereabouts of Siddiqui’s three children and demanded her immediate repatriation to Pakistan. A parliamentary delegation came to visit her. Facing growing mass outrage in Pakistan, the government allocated $2 million for U.S. lawyers to aid in her defense.

At a Sept. 3 court appearance, Siddiqui’s trial date was set for Nov. 2. The courtroom was full of Pakistani and other Muslim supporters. Activists from the Pakistan USA Freedom Forum and other buy penicillin organizations have mobilized on days when Dr. Siddiqui is brought into court.

In addition to Elaine Sharp, the lawyer hired by the family, the lawyers hired by the Pakistani government are Linda Moreno and Charles Swift. Another lawyer, Chad Hadgar, will assist the team, as will the court-appointed defense attorney, Dawn Cardi. Moreno was a lawyer for Dr. Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian unjustly imprisoned in the U.S.

The legal team was appointed over Siddiqui’s rejection of all lawyers. Linda Moreno said in a Sept. 3 press briefing that she felt that the legal team would have to earn Dr. Siddiqui’s trust because: “After what she has been through she has no trust for the whole system. What has been done to Dr. Siddiqui is disgusting, degrading and humiliating. This is a Guantánamo case outside of Guantánamo. … Dr. Siddiqui has been treated worse than the detainees at Guantánamo. … We are confident that the evidence in this case will show that Dr. Siddiqui harmed no flagyl online amoxicillin one. To the contrary, this 90-pound mother of three was shot and wounded herself, the alleged circumstances of which are not supported by evidence. Dr. Siddiqui harmed no one. She is Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription innocent of these charges.”

This is a case that must be taken up in full solidarity by the entire progressive movement, including the women’s movement, the movement for immigrant rights and the broad movement against U.S. racism and war.

The demand for Siddiqui’s freedom buy generic levitra must be combined with the demand for the release of all the secret documents on Siddiqui’s long imprisonment. The 130,000 pages of documents released by Holder confirm that the most detailed records were kept, with Nazi-like meticulousness, on the wrenching torture and racist abuse of countless prisoners held in U.S. secret prisons.

The case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui exposes the whole sordid torturous role of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and the widening war in Pakistan. Support for her freedom and return to her family in Pakistan is a basic demand for human rights and justice for a woman who has been horrendously abused.

A rally to support Siddiqui buy Brand Levitra Ampicillin is planned for Nov. 2 in front of U.S. District Court, 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan.



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