Ghost Prisoner: Aafia Siddiqui ( عافية صديقي)
This is an illustration of what is done in our name.
Today I read the Yahoo! News Headline:
"FBI Arrests Most Wanted Woman in the World:Evidence found in M.I.T. graduate Aafia Siddiqui's purse suggests she was plotting assassinations."
Intriguing!
So I had to find out more about this dangerous woman.
Turns out, it is likely that she has been a "ghost prisoner" of the US and Pakistan for the past 5 years!
Siddiqui reportedly
-had one of her kidneys removed while in captivity;
-her teeth had been removed
-her nose had been broken, and improperly reset
-had lost part of her intestines
One of her Prosecutors, justified withholding medical care because she was a "high-security risk".
On top of all that, it is speculated that her children (who are US citizens) are being held in custoday as well.
Today I read the Yahoo! News Headline:
"FBI Arrests Most Wanted Woman in the World:Evidence found in M.I.T. graduate Aafia Siddiqui's purse suggests she was plotting assassinations."
Intriguing!
So I had to find out more about this dangerous woman.
Turns out, it is likely that she has been a "ghost prisoner" of the US and Pakistan for the past 5 years!
Siddiqui reportedly
-had one of her kidneys removed while in captivity;
-her teeth had been removed
-her nose had been broken, and improperly reset
-had lost part of her intestines
One of her Prosecutors, justified withholding medical care because she was a "high-security risk".
On top of all that, it is speculated that her children (who are US citizens) are being held in custoday as well.
posted by shane at 11:15 AM
3 Comments:
That's an awful lot of speculation there. Any proof of any of it?
Proof?
The real question is one of credibility.
There really is no shortage of reports from many many news sources stating that Siddiqui has been mistreated in US custody for 5 years.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui#References
Eye witness accounts tell of her and her children's abduction as well as intimidation of her family.
see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7544008.stm
The US justice Dept's account of how she came into US custody is unbelievably weak.
We are supposed to believe that they came to arrest this dangerous woman and she nearly overtook the entire military contingent?!
What were they arresting her for?! Because now all she has been charged with was essentially resisting that arrest.
So, this isn't speculation. This is 2 very differing accounts of what happened. One backed by journalism and one backed by the US Justice Department.
I heard about this story as well on NPR...you might be able to find the story there shane on their website, it should be last week was when I heard this story. Ghost prisoner indeed.
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