Doctor examines Pakistani accused of U.S. troop attack
By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani woman suspected of links to al Qaeda and accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was examined by a doctor on Tuesday after complaining of pain from gunshot wounds, her lawyer said.
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a U.S.-trained neuroscientist, was ordered by a judge to receive urgent medical treatment after she appeared in court in a wheelchair and had been held in custody for a week without seeing a doctor.
“She was examined for abdominal pain related to gunshot wounds,” said one of her lawyers, Elaine Sharp. The physician’s report found no visible signs of infection but ordered a CT scan, according to Sharp, who said her client had stitches down the front of her torso from major surgery.
Siddiqui was shot in the abdomen last month when the United States says she tried to fire on a group of American troops who wanted to question her in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province.
She had resurfaced after being declared missing for five years by human rights groups. The United States flew her to New York from Afghanistan last week and charged her with attempting to kill and assault U.S. soldiers.
Lawyers for Siddiqui, who is being held without bail, say they believe she had been secretly detained since March 2003, when she was last seen leaving her parents’ home in Karachi.
Siddiqui’s lawyers believe she was held in Bagram air base in Afghanistan by U.S. authorities, Sharp said.
In 2004, Siddiqui was identified by the FBI as an “al Qaeda operative and facilitator who posed a clear and present danger to America.”
Siddiqui was married to a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks. Her husband was captured in 2003 and is now held at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
(Editing by Michelle Nichols and Chris Wilson)
August 13th, 2008 | Category: Children, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Female Detainee, Ghost, Grey Lady of Bagram
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August 16th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Dr. Raffia is a true Muslim woman who fought against the terror spreads by the U.S.A.
Basically the present condition of Dr. Raffia gives the conclusion that the dream of senior Bush, “One World Order” is working the real aspect of this dream was governing the world under on thumb. This is the time when every Muslim should fought against the sluggish US rule. It is my requests to every Muslim please wake up and remember the dignity of Islam.
Hasnain Fraz
August 16th, 2008 at 7:13 am
We call ourselves Civilized people but the record shows that more than a Million people are being incarcerated in JAILs (1 in 100), and we don’t like others pointing such statistics to us. While President Bush served as Governor of Texas, he sent 152 people to death (although he had the power to commute their death sentences). BTW Texas has the highest rate of Death sentence amognst the nation. What happened at Abu Gharaib,Gitmo and other Detention Centers around the world, the Western folks could even imagine happening to their own people. The detainees were put through Torture and Humiliation, because they were Muslims, and for this reason the WOT is a deception but War on Islam, or a CRUSADE.
Hasnain Fraz