enhanced_deficit
07-21-2013, 09:29 PM
Incredible, stumbled on some very strange reports this after reading news today of "extradition" in prisoner swap program.
US agrees to extradite imprisoned Pakistani woman
http://previous.presstv.ir/photo/20130721/shirsoleiman20130721045826783.jpgAafia Siddiqui (file photo)
Sun Jul 21, 2013 5:31AM GMT
Pakistani woman Aafia Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in prison after she was convicted of grabbing a US soldier’s assault rifle and trying to shoot a group of FBI agents and soldiers at an Afghan police compound in July 2008."
The United States has agreed to extradite Aafia Siddiqui - a Pakistani woman it had abducted and jailed - to her country under a prisoner exchange deal.
The Pakistani woman also has to complete the remaining of her prison term in Pakistan. The swap deal is likely to be signed soon.
Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has formed a task force to follow up on the US offer.
Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in prison after she was convicted of grabbing a US soldier’s assault rifle and trying to shoot a group of FBI agents and soldiers at an Afghan police compound in July 2008.
She denied the charge against her during the trial.
US officials also claim she is an al-Qaeda agent, but her family and many Pakistanis believe this is just a cover-up.
Siddiqui is being held at the notorious Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Carswell, Texas, where she is kept in the Special Housing Unit (SHU), which is the most severe confinement category.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/21/314821/us-to-extradite-jailed-pakistani-woman/
Found some hisrory of this very strange case, much of this does not make much sense:
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft) called her the most wanted woman in the world, an al-Qaeda "facilitator" who posed a "clear and present danger to the U.S." On May 26, 2004, the U.S. listed her among the seven "most wanted" al-Qaeda fugitives.[61] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-mom-62)[68] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-69) One day before the announcement, The New York Times cited the Department of Homeland Security (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Homeland_Security) saying there were no current risks; American Democrats accused the Bush administration of attempting to divert attention from plummeting poll numbers and to push the failings of the Invasion of Iraq (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iraq) off the front pages.
After 18 months of detention, Siddiqui's trial began in New York City on January 19, 2010.[112] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-114)[113] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-115)[114] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-116)[115] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-117) Prior to the jury entering the courtroom, Siddiqui told onlookers that she would not work with her lawyers because the trial was a sham.[116] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-118) She also said: "I have information about attacks, more than 9/11! ... I want to help the President to end this group, to finish them... They are a domestic, U.S. group; they are not Muslim."[16] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-guilty_bloomberg-16)[117] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-mcquillan-119)
The trial lasted 14 days, with the jury deliberating for three days before reaching a verdict.[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-nytimes1-24)[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-convic-25) On February 3, 2010, she was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder, armed assault, using and carrying a firearm, and three counts of assault on U.S. officers and employees.[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-guardian2-17)[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-nytimes1-24)[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-convic-25) After jurors found Siddiqui guilty, she exclaimed: "This is a verdict coming from Israel, not America. That’s where the anger belongs."[129] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-131)
At her hearing Thursday, Siddiqui said she had evidence that Israel was behind the Sept. 11 attacks. But she also had a message of peace, telling the audience not to get angry and to "forgive Judge Berman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui
As our Founding Fathers and a long list of scholars warned, once civil liberties are breached, they are breached for all. Soon U.S. citizens were being held indefinitely in violation of their habeas corpus rights. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui an American citizen of Pakistani origin might have been the first.
Dr. Siddiqui, a scientist educated at MIT and Brandeis University, was seized in Pakistan for no known reason, sent to Afghanistan, and was held secretly for five years in the U.S. military's notorious Bagram prison in Afghanistan. Her three young children were with her at the time she was abducted, one an eight-month old baby. She has no idea what has become of her two youngest children. Her oldest child, 7 years old, was also incarcerated in Bagram and subjected to similar abuse and horrors.
Siddiqui has never been charged with any terrorism-related offense. A British journalist, hearing her piercing screams as she was being tortured, disclosed her presence (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24605.htm). An embarrassed U.S. government responded to the disclosure by sending Siddiqui to the U.S. for trial on the trumped-up charge that while a captive, she grabbed a U.S. soldier's rifle and fired two shots attempting to shoot him. The charge apparently originated as a U.S. soldier's excuse for shooting Dr. Siddiqui twice in the stomach resulting in her near death.
On February 4, Dr. Siddiqui was convicted by a New York jury for attempted murder. The only evidence presented against her was the charge itself and an unsubstantiated claim that she had once taken a pistol-firing course at an American firing range. No evidence was presented of her fingerprints on the rifle that this frail and broken 100-pound woman had allegedly seized from an American soldier. No evidence was presented that a weapon was fired, no bullets, no shell casings, no bullet holes. Just an accusation.
Wikipedia has this to say about the trial: "The trial took an unusual turn when an FBI official asserted that the fingerprints taken from the rifle, which was purportedly used by Aafia to shoot at the U.S. interrogators, did not match hers."
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts279.html
US agrees to extradite imprisoned Pakistani woman
http://previous.presstv.ir/photo/20130721/shirsoleiman20130721045826783.jpgAafia Siddiqui (file photo)
Sun Jul 21, 2013 5:31AM GMT
Pakistani woman Aafia Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in prison after she was convicted of grabbing a US soldier’s assault rifle and trying to shoot a group of FBI agents and soldiers at an Afghan police compound in July 2008."
The United States has agreed to extradite Aafia Siddiqui - a Pakistani woman it had abducted and jailed - to her country under a prisoner exchange deal.
The Pakistani woman also has to complete the remaining of her prison term in Pakistan. The swap deal is likely to be signed soon.
Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has formed a task force to follow up on the US offer.
Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in prison after she was convicted of grabbing a US soldier’s assault rifle and trying to shoot a group of FBI agents and soldiers at an Afghan police compound in July 2008.
She denied the charge against her during the trial.
US officials also claim she is an al-Qaeda agent, but her family and many Pakistanis believe this is just a cover-up.
Siddiqui is being held at the notorious Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Carswell, Texas, where she is kept in the Special Housing Unit (SHU), which is the most severe confinement category.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/21/314821/us-to-extradite-jailed-pakistani-woman/
Found some hisrory of this very strange case, much of this does not make much sense:
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft) called her the most wanted woman in the world, an al-Qaeda "facilitator" who posed a "clear and present danger to the U.S." On May 26, 2004, the U.S. listed her among the seven "most wanted" al-Qaeda fugitives.[61] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-mom-62)[68] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-69) One day before the announcement, The New York Times cited the Department of Homeland Security (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Homeland_Security) saying there were no current risks; American Democrats accused the Bush administration of attempting to divert attention from plummeting poll numbers and to push the failings of the Invasion of Iraq (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iraq) off the front pages.
After 18 months of detention, Siddiqui's trial began in New York City on January 19, 2010.[112] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-114)[113] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-115)[114] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-116)[115] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-117) Prior to the jury entering the courtroom, Siddiqui told onlookers that she would not work with her lawyers because the trial was a sham.[116] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-118) She also said: "I have information about attacks, more than 9/11! ... I want to help the President to end this group, to finish them... They are a domestic, U.S. group; they are not Muslim."[16] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-guilty_bloomberg-16)[117] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-mcquillan-119)
The trial lasted 14 days, with the jury deliberating for three days before reaching a verdict.[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-nytimes1-24)[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-convic-25) On February 3, 2010, she was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder, armed assault, using and carrying a firearm, and three counts of assault on U.S. officers and employees.[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-guardian2-17)[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-nytimes1-24)[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-convic-25) After jurors found Siddiqui guilty, she exclaimed: "This is a verdict coming from Israel, not America. That’s where the anger belongs."[129] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#cite_note-131)
At her hearing Thursday, Siddiqui said she had evidence that Israel was behind the Sept. 11 attacks. But she also had a message of peace, telling the audience not to get angry and to "forgive Judge Berman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui
As our Founding Fathers and a long list of scholars warned, once civil liberties are breached, they are breached for all. Soon U.S. citizens were being held indefinitely in violation of their habeas corpus rights. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui an American citizen of Pakistani origin might have been the first.
Dr. Siddiqui, a scientist educated at MIT and Brandeis University, was seized in Pakistan for no known reason, sent to Afghanistan, and was held secretly for five years in the U.S. military's notorious Bagram prison in Afghanistan. Her three young children were with her at the time she was abducted, one an eight-month old baby. She has no idea what has become of her two youngest children. Her oldest child, 7 years old, was also incarcerated in Bagram and subjected to similar abuse and horrors.
Siddiqui has never been charged with any terrorism-related offense. A British journalist, hearing her piercing screams as she was being tortured, disclosed her presence (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24605.htm). An embarrassed U.S. government responded to the disclosure by sending Siddiqui to the U.S. for trial on the trumped-up charge that while a captive, she grabbed a U.S. soldier's rifle and fired two shots attempting to shoot him. The charge apparently originated as a U.S. soldier's excuse for shooting Dr. Siddiqui twice in the stomach resulting in her near death.
On February 4, Dr. Siddiqui was convicted by a New York jury for attempted murder. The only evidence presented against her was the charge itself and an unsubstantiated claim that she had once taken a pistol-firing course at an American firing range. No evidence was presented of her fingerprints on the rifle that this frail and broken 100-pound woman had allegedly seized from an American soldier. No evidence was presented that a weapon was fired, no bullets, no shell casings, no bullet holes. Just an accusation.
Wikipedia has this to say about the trial: "The trial took an unusual turn when an FBI official asserted that the fingerprints taken from the rifle, which was purportedly used by Aafia to shoot at the U.S. interrogators, did not match hers."
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts279.html