Pakistani woman in court over captain attack

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Source: Army Times / Associated Press

Pakistani woman in court over captain attack
By Tom Hays - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Aug 5, 2008 6:17:45 EDT

NEW YORK — An MIT-educated Pakistani woman once identified as a possible al-Qaida associate has been brought to New York to face charges she tried to kill U.S. agents and military officers during an interrogation in Afghanistan, federal prosecutors said.

Aafia Siddiqui, who was shot and wounded last month during the confrontation, was expected to be arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan on charges of attempted murder and assault, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said in a statement. A lawyer for her family said the allegations are false.

Siddiqui, 36, was stopped by police July 17 outside a government building in central Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, according to a criminal complaint. Police searched her handbag and discovered documents containing recipes for explosives and chemical weapons and describing “various landmarks in the United States, including New York City,” according to the complaint, which did not identify the landmarks.

Police also found maps of Ghazni on her, including the provincial governor’s compounds and the mosques he prayed in, said governor spokesman Sayed Ismail Jahangir.

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1. Pakistani mum extradited to US on terror charges by Hasan Mansoor

KARACHI (AFP) - A female Pakistani neuroscientist was due in a US court Tuesday after being extradited to the United States on charges of shooting at American soldiers while in detention in Afghanistan.

The case of Aafia Siddiqui has caused outrage in Pakistan, where her family angrily insisted that the US-educated 36-year-old was innocent and accused US forces of secretly holding her for the last five years.

Siddiqui, who has three children, disappeared from the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in 2003 and featured on a list of US suspects linked to Al-Qaeda the following year.

"What a mockery that after five years in detention Aafia is suddenly discovered in Afghanistan," her younger sister Fauzia Siddiqui told a news conference in Karachi.

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