Dr Aafia Siddiqui dead or alive?
Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani national who was born on March 2, 1972, is currently incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, serving an 86-year sentence for attempted murder and other offenses.
Siddiqui was born into a Sunni Muslim household in Pakistan. She spent time studying in the US starting in 1990, and in 2001 she graduated with a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University.
After the 9/11 attacks, she briefly returned to Pakistan, and she did it once more in 2003 when Afghanistan was at war.
She was added to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations’ Seeking Information – Terrorism list after Khalid Sheikh Muhammad described her as an al-Qaeda financier and courier; she is still the only woman to have appeared on the list.
She and her three children are thought to have been abducted in Pakistan around this period.
She returned to Ghazni, Afghanistan, five years later, where she was apprehended by Afghan authorities and detained by the FBI while being questioned.
Siddiqui purportedly informed the FBI she had fled while in captivity but afterward recanted her story and claimed she had been kidnapped and imprisoned.
Supporters assert that she was detained as a ghost prisoner at Bagram Air Force Base; the US government disputes this claim.
She allegedly fired at visiting U.S. FBI and Army personnel on her second day in custody using an M4 carbine that one of the interrogators had set down on the floor by his feet.
A warrant officer opened fire, striking her in the torso. She was treated in a hospital and extradited to the US, where she was indicted on charges of assault and attempted murder against a US soldier in the Ghazni police station in September 2008.
She vehemently denied the charges. She was found guilty on February 3, 2010, and was given an 86-year prison term.
Dr Aafia Siddiqui dead or alive?
However, it’s not confirmed yet whether she is dead or alive. Some sources claim that she is mentally unwell.
