Aafia Siddiqui may have been an unfamiliar name to many before Saturday, before a man claiming to be her brother took people hostage at a Colleyville synagogue and demanded to speak with her.
Siddiqui became the first female terrorism defendant arrested after 9/11, and she was convicted on charges related to the attempted murder and assault of United States officers and employees in Afghanistan in 2008.
ABC News quoted a U.S. official as saying the hostage-taker in Colleyville claimed to be Siddiqui’s brother.
A member of the Pakistani government called for Siddiqui to be released from U.S. custody and returned to Pakistan, according to the Express Tribune, a daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan.
Siddiqui was transferred to the Federal Medical Center-Carswell prison in Fort Worth for medical reasons in 2008. Carswell is the only federal medical facility for women in the U.S., and incarcerated women across the country who have medical needs are often transferred to the prison.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article257366707.html