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Alleged Mata Hari of Al Qaeda Could Provide 'Treasure Trove' of Intelligence
ABC News ^ | 8-12-08 | Richard Esposito, Brian Ross

Posted on 08/12/2008 3:37:10 PM PDT by STARWISE

Aafia Siddique Had a List of Targets in New York & Chem-Bio Weapons Information in her Possession

When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the subway system and the animal disease center on Plum Island, detailed chemical, biological and radiological weapon information that has been seen only in a handful of terrorist cases, as well as a thumb drive packed with emails, ABC News has learned.

That haul of information has led multiple government sources to describe Siddique, a 36 year-old MIT graduate, as a potential "treasure trove" of information on terrorist supporters, sympathizers or 'sleepers' in the United States and overseas.

"She is the most significant capture in five years," said former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who said she lives up to her reputation as an alleged terrorist 'Mata Hari.'

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alqaeda; anarchistsarsenal; baltimorecell; bigapple; bostoncell; cbw; chemicals; gels; islam; korananimals; matahari; mohammedanism; muslims; nyc; religionofpieces; rop; siddique; statueofliberty; targetlist; terrorist; timessquare; trop; wmd; wot
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When Aafia Siddique was captured she allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the subway system, and detailed chemical-biological radiological weapon information.

Mean lookin' witch.

1 posted on 08/12/2008 3:41:10 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

Well, at the very least, we should be nice to her and then she’ll give us all the info we want.... NOT


2 posted on 08/12/2008 3:42:46 PM PDT by scottdeus12 (Jesus is real, whether you believe in Him or not.)
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To: STARWISE

No torture
No torture
No torture


3 posted on 08/12/2008 3:45:48 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: STARWISE

Dang, the Beeb ,(BBC), ran a story about how she was a housewife, mistreated by the mean Americans. .


4 posted on 08/12/2008 3:46:10 PM PDT by csvset
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To: STARWISE

Thanks for posting this. I just watched the Ross report on the ABC evening news. Sounds like we could have some pretty serious information.

MIT will probably get her a real good lawyer....


5 posted on 08/12/2008 3:47:45 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: STARWISE

Isn’t that the reporter for CNN? Her name was Koala Lemur or something....


6 posted on 08/12/2008 3:48:19 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Ax; Azeem; ...
MI Ping
SOCOM Ping
7 posted on 08/12/2008 3:48:43 PM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

bttt


8 posted on 08/12/2008 3:50:09 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: scottdeus12

Maybe we could put her up at Obamas house for a while....


9 posted on 08/12/2008 3:50:48 PM PDT by Yorlik803 (Running isnt a plan:Running is what you do when a plan fails.)
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To: BOBTHENAILER

Waterboarding isn’t torture, is it? I vote for that.

I wouldn’t cry much if they pulled her toenails off one at a time but I can be unusually cruel when I think about 9/11 and all that these animals have caused.


10 posted on 08/12/2008 3:53:11 PM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: STARWISE

I thought this was a story of a talking goat...never mind.


11 posted on 08/12/2008 3:53:11 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: STARWISE

In five years? Wow.


12 posted on 08/12/2008 3:54:08 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Chomsky has already volunteered to do a “lawyer Search”.


13 posted on 08/12/2008 3:55:02 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: STARWISE

I’ve seen a similar symbol recently. Anyone know what it is?


14 posted on 08/12/2008 3:56:30 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: STARWISE
"who said she lives up to her reputation as an alleged terrorist 'Mata Hari.'

Actually, the original Mata Hari may not have been much of a spy and certainly was not a terrorist, IIRC. The real Mata Hari executed by the French army in WWI was more of a courtesan who made the bad choice of sleeping with too many military officers. She may or may not have been conducting espionage, but I don't think much was ever proved.

This one, otoh, sounds like a real deal terrorist, but watch how the political left will embrace her as a misunderstood housewife with an Islamist bent.

15 posted on 08/12/2008 3:57:57 PM PDT by Enchante (If oil was botox then Nancy Pelosi would have us drilling everywhere!!! (hat tip, STARWISE))
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To: STARWISE

WOW!


16 posted on 08/12/2008 3:58:03 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: Sacajaweau

If you’re speaking of the symbol in the picture behind her, it’s the international symbol for “Biohazard”.


17 posted on 08/12/2008 4:00:25 PM PDT by GWMcClintock (The last thing the US needs is B.O.!)
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To: GWMcClintock

Thanks...Reminded me of the Obama symbol that we’ve been seeing.


18 posted on 08/12/2008 4:02:34 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: vetvetdoug

ROTFLMAO!!


19 posted on 08/12/2008 4:06:53 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: tiki
If she's a treasure trove, then by all means, let's mine that treasure however we must.
20 posted on 08/12/2008 4:07:06 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: STARWISE

All I know is that this mean, disgusting, war criminal nation better not have violated her civil rights to get her or the jury is just going to have to acquit. We have to respect her rights at all costs.


21 posted on 08/12/2008 4:07:15 PM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: Sacajaweau; Alas Babylon!; Dog; All

I do not .... anyone else?


22 posted on 08/12/2008 4:17:40 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

Waterboard the bitch.


23 posted on 08/12/2008 4:23:30 PM PDT by 2dogjoe (Have a Blessed Day)
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To: Enchante
Actually, the original Mata Hari may not have been much of a spy and certainly was not a terrorist, IIRC. The real Mata Hari executed by the French army in WWI was more of a courtesan who made the bad choice of sleeping with too many military officers. She may or may not have been conducting espionage, but I don't think much was ever proved.

As I recall, German Intelligence, both during, and after WWI flat out stated that Mata Hari had never given them anything of any significance. While she had passed data to the Germans, none of it was of any practical value to them, so as a spy, she was strictly an amateur...

the infowarrior

24 posted on 08/12/2008 4:27:41 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Enchante; SE Mom; Bahbah; Doctor Raoul; NormsRevenge; mware; mdittmar; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

Absolutely ... deadly.

I bet the interrogators are getting
some really really good, creative
questioning in.

And the NOW gang is probably mounting
their drive for her legal defense fund.

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Who’s Afraid of Aafia Siddiqui?

She went to MIT and Brandeis, married a Brigham and Women’s physician, made her home in Boston, cared for her children, and raised money for charities. Aafia Siddiqui was a normal woman living a normal American life. Until the FBI called her a terror

The men were ready. They knew the woman who would be joining them for the week was a high-profile Al Qaeda operative. They’d been told she should be treated with the utmost respect.

She would arrive in Liberia’s bustling capital, Monrovia, on a plane from Quetta, Pakistan. She was to be driven to the safe house, the Hotel Boulevard, where other Al Qaeda figures had stayed, and taken good care of until the deal was done.

The trip from the airport was a hot hour long, and the woman spoke in English to the driver on the way. The driver, who would later become the chief informant in a United Nations-led investigation, described her as a quiet Islamic woman who wore a traditional headscarf and kept mostly to herself.

She spent the week holed up in her room, making trips into town for small errands.

About a week after her arrival, the woman left Monrovia as quietly as she had entered, but now she had what she had come for: a large parcel containing gems from Africa’s illegal diamond trade.

They would be used as a convenient, hard-to-trace way of funding Al Qaeda’s global terror operations. It was mid-June 2001, three months before September 11.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/whos_afraid_of_aafia_siddiqui/

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25 posted on 08/12/2008 4:28:47 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: Sacajaweau
Probably in a doctor's office. It means “Biohazard”.
26 posted on 08/12/2008 4:31:16 PM PDT by NathanR ( Drill here. Drill now. Pay less.)
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To: STARWISE; GWMcClintock
I do not .... anyone else?

Freeper GWMcClintock has it correctly. It's the internationally recognized symbol for a biohazard. Folks have seen it largely from the advertising for the movies "28 Days", and "28 Days Later", as it was prominent in the advertisements.

the infowarrior

27 posted on 08/12/2008 4:31:51 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Sacajaweau; GWMcClintock

28 posted on 08/12/2008 4:32:59 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

How can we get info out of her? She now has immediate access to a lawyer, doesn’t she?


29 posted on 08/12/2008 4:34:34 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a Typical White Person)
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To: vetvetdoug

at least I got it - very funny


30 posted on 08/12/2008 4:34:56 PM PDT by palomonte
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To: STARWISE

See?? They have only one goal in mind - obliterate New York.


31 posted on 08/12/2008 4:35:14 PM PDT by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: 2dogjoe

Hang her high!


32 posted on 08/12/2008 4:35:30 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: STARWISE; All
From the article:

By the time of Siddique's capture last month, she had become something of a cause celebre among some human rights activists who believe she was "disappeared" five years ago by the Pakistani government, perhaps at the request of the United States.

At a federal court hearing in Manhattan on Monday, the number of supporters who showed up required the US Marshals to move the Magistrate's Court proceeding to a larger courtroom and also open an overflow courtroom where spectators could listen to and watch the proceedings on closed circuit TV.

33 posted on 08/12/2008 4:36:06 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: STARWISE

I bet we put her muzzie ass through MIT


34 posted on 08/12/2008 4:36:20 PM PDT by palomonte
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To: STARWISE

Thank you very much. I’m wiser for it!!


35 posted on 08/12/2008 4:37:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: STARWISE

Have either the ISI-Pakistani Intelligence or the Mossad-(Israeli Intelligence) conduct an attitude adjustment session with this bruja. I wonder who would be tougher the ISI or the Mossad?/Just Asking - seoul62.......


36 posted on 08/12/2008 4:38:29 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: STARWISE
Interesting bio (from Wikipedia):

Early life and education

Aafia Siddiqui was born in Pakistan in March 1972. She came to the United States, and attended colleges in the Boston, Massachusetts area. As a sophomore at MIT in 1992, Siddiqui received a Carroll L. Wilson Award for her research proposal, "Islamization in Pakistan and its Effects on Women." As a junior, Siddiqui received a $1,200 fellowship through MIT's LINKS program to help clean up Cambridge elementary school playgrounds. During her undergraduate career, she lived in McCormick Hall and worked at the MIT libraries. She graduated from MIT in 1995.

In 1996, a year after she graduated, she wrote an article for the MIT Information Systems newsletter about how to download computer programs using the File Transfer Protocol and the then-emerging World Wide Web.

She subsequently went on to graduate study in neuroscience at Brandeis University receiving the Ph.D. degree in 2001 for her dissertation, entitled "Separating the Components of Imitation." In 1999, while living in Boston, she and Khan founded the nonprofit Institute of Islamic Research and Teaching

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Interesting that she should get her Ph.D. from Brandeis, which is a historically Jewish college.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/BrandeisUnivSeal.gif/149px-BrandeisUnivSeal.gif

37 posted on 08/12/2008 4:41:08 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: aculeus

The ACLU (Allah-Civil-Liberties-Union) is right there with their phalanxes of attorneys, I’m sure.


38 posted on 08/12/2008 4:44:07 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: BOBTHENAILER
The photo of her is not enough to tell us whether she would look good in a wet tee shirt ...
strapped to a board ...
tilted downward.
39 posted on 08/12/2008 4:44:18 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: DarthVader
Hang her high!

...but not before you squeeze every last bit of intel out of her - and don't be stingy with the psychotropic drugs...

40 posted on 08/12/2008 4:52:26 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("It's not my fault if McCain loses - it's his own damn fault!" - Mark Levin)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I guess the only way to find out is to do it. Personally, I think she would look just grand in such a position.


41 posted on 08/12/2008 4:52:54 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: seoul62

I’d go with the Mossad.


42 posted on 08/12/2008 4:53:44 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("It's not my fault if McCain loses - it's his own damn fault!" - Mark Levin)
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To: COBOL2Java

How fast do you think she will talk?/Just Asking - seoul62......


43 posted on 08/12/2008 4:58:23 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: tiki

Amen!


44 posted on 08/12/2008 5:07:46 PM PDT by doc1019 (I was taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder to find one.)
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To: aculeus

It is possible that she had been captured by the Pakistani government 5 years ago and gave up all of this intel and has been cooperating with us ever since. Maybe someone spotted her last month and they had to stage a second capture to protect her cover. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, as she probably wants to disappear from al Qaeda’s reach, but the media and liberals are going to be keeping her viable.


45 posted on 08/12/2008 5:08:40 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: STARWISE

Keep her in Afghanistan and let them interrogate her.

I bet they’ll have no problem putting panties on her head!


46 posted on 08/12/2008 5:20:58 PM PDT by airborne (American by birth! Christian by choice!)
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To: El Cid
I thought this was a story of a talking goat

Have you seen her picture? How can you be sure it's not?

47 posted on 08/12/2008 5:37:00 PM PDT by LouD
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To: airborne; anymouse; seoul62; COBOL2Java; BOBTHENAILER; Sacajaweau; Plutarch; Doctor Raoul; ...

She’s was trying REAL hard to give it all up for al qaeda, for sure!

http://tinyurl.com/6c7vfv

“Ms. Siddiqui, 36, disappeared with her three children while visiting her parents’ home in Karachi, Pakistan, in March 2003, leading human rights groups and her family to believe she had been secretly detained.

But in interviews Monday and in a criminal complaint made public later Monday, American officials said they had no knowledge of Ms. Siddiqui’s location for the past five years until July 17, when Ms. Siddiqui and a teenage boy were detained in Ghazni, Afghanistan, after local authorities became suspicious of their loitering outside the provincial governor’s compound.

When they searched Ms. Siddiqui’s handbag, the Afghan police found documents describing the creation of explosives as well as excerpts from the “Anarchist’s Arsenal.” She also carried sealed bottles and glass jars filled with liquids and gels.

The day after she was detained, an American team, including two F.B.I. agents, two American soldiers and interpreters, went to the police station to talk to her. The F.B.I. has wanted her for questioning since May 2004, a Justice Department spokesman said.

The complaint gave the following account of what happened next.

Americans entered a room in the police station, unaware that Ms. Siddiqui was being held there, unsecured, behind a curtain.

One of the soldiers, a warrant officer, sat down and placed his M-4 rifle on the floor next to the curtain.

Shortly after the meeting began, the other soldier, a captain, heard a woman yelling from the curtain. He turned to see Ms. Siddiqui pointing the warrant officer’s rifle at him.

The interpreter sitting closest to Ms. Siddiqui lunged at her and pushed the rifle away as she pulled the trigger and shouted, “God is Great.” She fired at least two shots, but no one was hit. The warrant officer returned fire with his 9mm pistol, hitting Ms. Siddiqui at least once in the torso.

Ms. Siddiqui struggled when officers tried to subdue her, shouting in English that she wanted to kill Americans. After she was subdued, the complaint said, she “temporarily lost consciousness.”

Ms. Siddiqui was charged Monday with one count of trying to kill American officers and employees and one count of assaulting them, the Justice Department said. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each count.

The wild scene in the police station is the latest chapter in one of the strangest episodes in the American campaign against terrorism.

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That officer was plain dumb.


48 posted on 08/12/2008 5:53:59 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

Thanks for the ping!


49 posted on 08/12/2008 5:55:53 PM PDT by potlatch ("Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter")
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To: MNJohnnie; Enchante; rodguy911

Ping to #48


50 posted on 08/12/2008 5:56:04 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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