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Aafia Siddiqui
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Aafia Siddiqui
Born 2 March 1972 (age 49)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Nationality Pakistani[1][2]
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Brandeis University (PhD)
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[3]
Board member of Institute of Islamic Research and Teaching (President)[4][5]
Criminal charge(s) Attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon
Criminal penalty Convicted; sentenced to 86 years in prison[6][7]
Criminal status Held in the FMC Carswell, Fort Worth, Texas, United States[6]
Spouse(s) Amjad Mohammed Khan
(m. 1995; div. 2002)
allegedly Ammar al-Baluchi, also known as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali (February 2003 – present)[8]
Children 3 including Mohammad Ahmed
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Aafia Siddiqui (Urdu: ; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of multiple felonies. She is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.[9]
Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family.[3] For a period from 1990, she studied in the United States and obtained a PhD in neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2001.[10] She returned to Pakistan for a time following the 9/11 attacks and again in 2003 during the war in Afghanistan. Khalid Sheikh Muhammad named her a courier and financier for Al-Qaeda, and she was placed on the FBI Seeking Information – Terrorism list; she remains the only woman to have been featured on the list.[11][12][13] Around this time, she and her three children were allegedly kidnapped in Pakistan.[11]
Five years later, she reappeared in Ghazni, Afghanistan, and was arrested by Afghan police and held for questioning by the FBI. While in custody, Siddiqui allegedly told the FBI she had gone into hiding but later disavowed her testimony and stated she had been abducted and imprisoned. Supporters believe she was held captive at Bagram Air Force Base as a ghost prisoner, charges the US government denies.
During the second day in custody, she allegedly shot at visiting U.S. FBI and Army personnel with an M4 carbine one of the interrogators had placed on the floor by his feet. She was shot in the torso when a warrant officer returned fire. She was hospitalized, treated and then extradited to the US, where in September 2008 she was indicted on charges of assault and attempted murder of a US soldier in the police station in Ghazni, charges she denied. She was convicted on 3 February 2010 and later sentenced to 86 years in prison.
Her case has been called a "flashpoint of Pakistani-American tensions",[14] and "one of the most mysterious in a secret war dense with mysteries".[15] In Pakistan her arrest and conviction was seen by the public as an "attack on Islam and Muslims", and occasioned large protests throughout the country;[16] while in the US, she was considered by some to be especially dangerous as "one of the few alleged Al Qaeda associates with the ability to move about the United States undetected, and the scientific expertise to carry out a sophisticated attack".[11] She has been termed "Lady al-Qaeda" by a number of media organizations due to her alleged affiliation with Islamists.[17][18][19] Pakistani news media called the trial a "farce",[16] while other Pakistanis labeled this reaction "knee-jerk Pakistani nationalism". The Pakistani Prime Minister at that time, Yousaf Raza Gillani, and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, promised to push for her release.[16]
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