Terror Suspect Mentally Unfit for Trial :
The U.S. government has not found a "shred of evidence" that a Pakistani woman accused of trying to kill a U.S. soldier and FBI agents was abducted or tortured-
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Dr. Afia Siddiqui, a highly educated researcher who studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, for about 10 years and did her PhD in genetics, mysteriously disappeared from Karachi in March 2003 along with her three children. Since then, US and Pakistani officials have continuously denied any knowledge about her.
It was only after British prisoner Moazzam Begg mentioned her in his book The Enemy Combatant that Human Rights Organizations and activists, British journalist Yvonne Ridley and MP Lord Nazir in particular, raised voice for Dr. Aafia kept in solitary confinement and her three children. A specially disturbing part of this story is that fate of her three children, aged between one month and 7 years at the time of her kidnapping, is still unknown.
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A US judge on Wednesday ordered further psychiatric evaluation for a Pakistani woman he says is mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges of attempted murder of US officers in Afghanistan.
Judge Richard Berman told the federal court in New York that Aafia Siddiqui, a US-educated neuroscientist extradited in August from Afghanistan, is "not currently competent to proceed."
Judging from an initial medical report, "the course of treatment should continue," he said.
Siddiqui, 36, is in custody at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
Her lawyer, Elizabeth Fink, told the court that Siddiqui is "hallucinating" about her family.
"She believes she lives with two of the children," Fink said.
One of those children is in fact dead and the other has disappeared,
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One of the Saudis wrote a $20,000 check that same day to a third Saudi who had listed the same address as Aafia Siddiqui, a microbiologist who is believed to have been a U.S. operative for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Saudi spokesman said the wire transfers had no connection to Siddiqui and were used to pay educational and medical expenses for Saudi families in the United States. But bureau officials say the matter remains under active investigation...[Apr.2004]
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Islamabad, Aug 1 [2008]: Islamabad is abuzz with rumours about the presence of a Pakistani doctor, Afia Siddiqui, in one of Afghanistan’s most notorious prisons in Bagram.
Known as “Prisoner No. 650” and the “Grey Lady”, Siddiqui was allegedly handed over to the US six years ago for her links with the al Qaida.
While home secretary Syed Kamal Shah and other senior home ministry officials have denied the presence of such a lady in Bagram, media reports continue to suggest that she was extradited to the Afghan jail from Karachi with her children. She continues to stay in the prison in humiliating conditions.
“She is subjected to physical and sexual torture by American troops in the jail,” Urdu-language newspaper Jang reported
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He was passing through Boston on his way to New York where he planned to speak to Aafia Siddiqui's lawyer in order to put some pressure on the US authorities to allow the sister to be hospitalized and treated for her gunshot wound as well as severe post-traumatic stress. In a phone conversation the next day, the Honorable Lord Ahmed shared with me how he came to know about her tragic fate.
This summer, probably during their fact-finding mission to Darfur reported earlier in my blog, the famed reporter Yvonne Ridley approached Lord Ahmed to ask if he could find out anything about the legendary mystery of the "Grey Lady of Bagram."
When Pakistani detainee Moazzem Begg was released without charge, he reported to the media that he still felt haunted by a woman's sobbing cries and hysterical screams coming from Cell #650 at the US-run torture den in Afghanistan. Saudis liberated from Bagram during the daring Taliban prison break-out also reported that they had seen her.
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Dr. Fauzia Siddique, sister of Pakistani Doctor Aafia Siddique who is currently detained in US has said that the remarks of US Judge has confirmed that Dr. Aafia faced severe torture during her detention.
Talking to a private TV channel, Dr. Fauzia Siddique stated that the remarks are not surprising for us, however, it has proved that Dr. Aafia has been facing severe torture for the last five years.
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Aafia Siddiqui had been missing for more than a year when the FBI put her photographs on its website. The press was told that she was an Al Qaeda facilitator. After an FBI conference, a newspaper broke the story linking the woman involved in the 2001 diamond trade in Liberia to Aafia. The family's attorney, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, says the allegation was a blessing in disguise because it places Siddiqui somewhere at a specific time. She says she can prove Siddiqui was in Boston that week.
You can't stop saying it, it has to be said over and over until they're gone from the world or we are. Saying "terror suspect" means "terrorist" means she's already guilty means she deserved whatever was done to her.
A mother kidnapped with her three children.
Tortured for years.
Hey there.
President Smokey has announced he's shutting down Guantanamo right away. Which is good, that's good. Nothing about Bagram though. Or Diego Garcia. Or that place whatever that place in Poland was called, is called.
Plus places I never heard of and most Americans don't even know what, what, WHAT?
It's not a mistake, it's evil.
Bagram is evil, it's not a mistake, it's evil.
Guantanamo isn't a mistake it's a manifestation of evil. Abu Ghraib, not a mistake.
Evil.
Which means the people who are fighting that are fighting evil.
Which means oh my god.
