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Pakistani scientist faces jail for shooting at FBI agents
4 Feb 2010A Pakistani scientist has been convicted of trying to kill US soldiers and FBI agents while held in Afghanistan.
Suspected al Qaeda sympathiser Aafia Siddiqui, who studied in the US, was interrogated at a police station in 2008. The 37-year-old is said to have grabbed a rifle and shot at her questioners, yelling “Death to Americans”.
She faces up to 58 years in jail after a New York jury convicted her of attempted murder and armed assault.
Siddiqui claimed she had been tortured while held in a “secret prison” before her detention. She called the charges “crazy”, saying: “It's just ridiculous.”
A chief warrant officer, who testified in uniform but did not give his name, told jurors he had set down his M4 rifle after being told Siddiqui had been restrained. He testified he was shocked when she suddenly appeared from behind a curtain wielding his M4 rifle and yelling, “Allah akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.”
“It was pretty amazing she got that thing up and squared off,” he said. “She was looking at me and aiming dead at me.” The officer said he pulled his pistol and shot Siddiqui in the stomach as she wrestled with an interpreter.
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It's sad and disgraceful to hear how people can be brain washed into believing this religious kind of crap.They will kill in the name of religion.They blow themselves up, killing others and for what?.This woman should be hanged period.There is no room in this world for this kind of scum.Yes her beliefs and others like her are the devil's religion bent on murder, terror and hatred.
- Steve, Toronto,Canada, 04/02/2010 12:33
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