Al Qaeda Suspect at U.S. Court

ANCHOR:
A Pakistani women suspect of high-level links to al Qaeda faced a U.S. Court yesterday. She is charged with attempted murder and assault on U.S. troops in Afghanistan and will reappear in federal court next Monday. Her lawyers say she is innocent.

STORY:
At the New York court hearing, the lawyers said the charges against Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui, 36, were "insufficient".

[Elizabeth Fink, Siddiqui's Lawyer]:
"The allegations as they stated them today without anybody to swear to them, without anybody who was there, based on what the FBI says to be true, right, were to me insufficient to establish proper recourse."

Lawyers also denied that Siddiqui had links to al Qaeda.

In 2004, Siddiqui was identified by the FBI as an "al Qaeda operative and facilitator."
She is married to a nephew of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks. Her husband was captured in 2003.

Siddiqui was shot and wounded last month while allegedly trying to fire on a group of U.S. troops who had come to question her in Afghanistan.

But Afghan police in Ghazni province tell a different story.

They say Siddiqui was arrested by Afghan police because of reports that she was acting suspiciously. They found maps of the city Ghazni, including one of the governor's house.

According to a senior Ghazni police officer, when U.S. troops requested Saddaqui be handed over to them, the Afghan police refused. U.S. soldiers then allegedly disarmed the Afghan police.The Afghani officer went on to say that the U.S. troops, "thinking that she had explosives and would attack them as a suicide bomber, shot her and took her.?

Siddiqui and her children have been missing from Afghanistan since 2003. Her lawyers claim she has been secretly detained by the US government. But US officials say Siddiqui was in Pakistan until her arrest in Afghanistan.

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[k0329212]

where her children terrorist?

may she be free and reunited with her children. she has suffered so much at the hands of these evil people.

[dahppyoneandonly]

So she is married to a nephew of a criminal, how does that make her a criminal? Even if she is guilty of something, it does not justify torture as she appears in the picture.

What about her children, what did they do wrong.

Hope they are fine and re-unite with their mother, soon.

[moviejacker]

Pakis can get her out, but US just pay more.

[sertox12345]

@dahppyoneandonly it guys like you that will let them come to the us and kill use all you as

[sertox12345]

all of them hate use they are all brain washed to hate the west so kill er now before she hert some guy with kids and this lawer she makes me sick what is she talking bout she firer on us troops they should have killed her there

[sertox12345]

i think this lawer should b locked up too

[hindu4india]

The muslims and the muslim world is out to destroy the world. they are so ashamed of themselves that they (56 nations, 1.5 populace) has nothing to offer to the modern world. muslims have killed 80 million hindus from 1100 ad to 1850 ad, 1.5 million armenians and millions in Africa. Muslims have the blood in their hands. Muslims are cursed by God.

[aqazi]

america there will be reconing for your crimes against humanity.

[zafirah786]

Just read up on her, there's so much fucking bullshit surrounding her case. The US legal system is fucked up to the max!!!! They are the terrorist, do you really think they can stop "terrorism" like this? LMAO

[Dotov]

bullshit

[TariqDreamer]

that reporter did not let us hear the lawyer's voice.

[mwattoo]

John, that is only what could be expected of American idiots like you. The good thing is that some of you are still sane and unlike you would stand up for human rights. By the way how many times were you raped as a kid? Your comments show that you suffered a really abusive childhood. I am sorry for you