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Taliban to execute US soldier if Aafia not released
Pak Tribune ^ | 2/5/2010 | PakTribune
Posted on February 5, 2010 9:46:32 PM PST by Velveeta
PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban on Thursday demanded the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who has been convicted by the US court on charges of her alleged attempt to murder US soldiers in Afghanistan, and threatened to execute an American soldier they were holding currently. They claimed Aafia Siddiqui’s family had approached the Taliban network through a Jirga of notables, seeking their assistance to put pressure on the US to provide her justice.
“Being Muslims, it becomes our religious and moral obligation to help the distressed Pakistani woman convicted by the US court on false charges,” said a senior Afghan Taliban commander. The commander, whose militant network is holding the US soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, called our sources from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan and threatened to execute the American trooper if their demand was not met.
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Plum forgot about that one.
followup:
Obama Administration Agrees To Extradite “Lady Al Qaeda” To Pakistan
7/22/2013, 5:43:00 PM · by lowbridge · 8 replies
http://freedomoutpost.com/ ^ | july 22, 2013 | Pamela Geller
Aafia Siddiqui is a MIT-trained neuroscientist who married a top Al Qaeda operative who intended to blow up gas stations or poison water reservoirs in the United States. She is known as “Lady Al Qaeda,” and was convicted of attempting to murder Americans in Afghanistan after she was found with plans for a “mass casualty attack” in the United States, along with a list of New York landmarks. Aafia Siddiqui named Farha Ahmed as her legal counsel in a handwritten letter in October of 2010. Farha Ahmed was running for office in Texas. Farha Ahmed was the leader of the...
Taliban wanted to swap Bergdahl for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui...
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is [reportedly] the wife of Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali , also known as Ammar al-Baluchi...
he in turn is the cousin of Ramzi Youssef, the plotter of the 1993 World Trade center bombing and the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a/k/a KSM, the plotter of 9/11 attacks on the US.
Ammar al Baluchi, when he was in Pakistan c 2002 also was reportedly tied to Maryland resident Majid Khan.