Who is Aaifa Siddiqui?
Aaifa Siddiqui, also known as "Lady Al-Qaeda," was once identified as a member of Al-Qaeda, although it is not known if she is still with the group.
Born on March 2, 1972, Siddiqui is 50-years-old.
She has been linked to 9/11 ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed according to foreignpolicy.com.
Reportedly, she is a Pakistani ex-past who lives in Boston. She studied at M.I.T. and received a doctorate from Brandeis according to the outlet.
She is also a mother of two. Her husband is reportedly an anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women's.
According to Boston Magazine, Siddiqui is deeply religious, and picks up Korans from a local mosque and distributes them to inmates in area prisons.
Does Aaifa Siddiqui have a criminal history?
Allegedly Siddiqui was arrested in 2008 in Afghanistan for "carrying sodium cyanide, as well as documents describing how to make chemical weapons and dirty bombs and how to weaponize Ebola," writes foreignpolicy.com
She has also been identified as having a hand in Africa's illegal diamond trade, which in earlier years was allegedly a convenient, hard-to-trace way of funding Al Qaeda's global terror operations reported Boston Magazine.
The FBI once named Siddiqui as a woman who has the "knowledge, skills, and intention to continue Al Qaeda's terror war in the United States and abroad."
Who are Aaifa Siddiqui's family?
Siddiqui is one of three children of Muhammad Siddiqui, a doctor trained in England, and Ismet, a homemaker.
Muhammed, her brother, is reportedly an architect who lives in Houston with his wife and children.
Fowzia, her sister, is a neurologist and Harvard graduate who worked at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore before she returned to Pakistan.
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