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Aafia Siddiqui (; ; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani Al-Qaeda operative, who was convicted on two counts of attempted murder of US nationals, officers, and employees, assault with a deadly weapon, carrying and using a firearm, and three counts of assault on US officers and employees. She is currently serving her 86 year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. Afia was born in Pakistan and spent here childhood there. In 1990 she went to study neuroscience in the United States and obtained a Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 2001. In early 2003, during the 2001 Afghanistan War caused by a conflict between United States and Al-Qaeda, Siddiqui returned to Pakistan. In March 2003, she was named as a courier and financier for Al-Qaeda by Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and was placed on a "wanted for questioning" list by the American FBI. She subsequently disappeared until she was arrested in Ghazni, Afghanistan, by Afghan police, 17 July 2008, with documents and notes for making bombs plus containers of sodium cyanide. She was held for questioning. Siddiqui was shot in the torso the next day by visiting U.S. FBI and Army personnel, after allegedly shooting at them with a rifle one of the interrogators had placed on the floor. Siddiqui was flown by the FBI to New York and indicted in New York federal district court in September 2008, on charges of assault and attempted murder of a United States Army Captain in the police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Siddiqui denied the charges. After 18 months in detention, she was tried and convicted 3 February 2010 and sentenced later that year to 86 years in prison. In Pakistan, Siddiqui had by then become a symbol of victimization.〔 In March 2010, after her conviction, both the Prime Minister Gilani and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif promised in unity to push for her release.〔 Pakistani news media called the trial a "farce,"〔 while other Pakistanis labeled this reaction "knee-jerk Pakistani nationalism".〔 ==Background== Siddiqui went to the United States on a student visa in 1990 for undergraduate and graduate education. She eventually settled in Massachusetts and earned a PhD in neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2001.〔 A Muslim who had engaged in Islamic charity work,〔 she returned to Pakistan in 2002 before disappearing with her three young children in March 2003, shortly after the arrest in Pakistan of her second husband's uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged chief planner of the September 11 attacks.〔〔〔 Khalid Mohammed reportedly mentioned Siddiqui's name while he was being interrogated〔 and, shortly thereafter, she was added to the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list.〔 In May 2004, the FBI named Siddiqui as one of its seven Most Wanted Terrorists.〔 Her whereabouts were reported to have been unknown until she was arrested in July 2008 in Afghanistan.〔 Upon her arrest, the Afghan police said she was carrying in her purse handwritten notes and a computer thumb drive containing recipes for conventional bombs and weapons of mass destruction, instructions on how to make machines to shoot down US drones, descriptions of New York City landmarks with references to a mass casualty attack, and two pounds of sodium cyanide in a glass jar.〔〔 Siddiqui was shot and severely wounded at the police compound the following day. Her American interrogators said she grabbed a rifle from behind a curtain and began shooting at them. Siddiqui's own version was that she simply stood up to see who was on the other side of the curtain and startled the soldiers, one of whom then shot her.〔 She received medical attention for her wounds at Bagram Air Base and was flown to the US〔 to be charged in a New York City federal court with attempted murder, and armed assault on US officers and employees.〔 She denied the charges.〔 After receiving psychological evaluations and therapy, the judge declared her mentally fit to stand trial.〔 Siddiqui interrupted the trial proceedings with vocal outbursts and was ejected from the courtroom several times.〔 The jury convicted her on all charges in February 2010.〔〔〔 〕 The prosecution argued for a "terrorism enhancement" that would require a life term; Siddiqui's lawyers requested a 12-year sentence, arguing that she suffers from mental illness. The charges against her stemmed solely from the shooting, and Siddiqui was not charged with any terrorism-related offences.〔 Amnesty International monitored the trial for fairness. In a letter to Barack Obama, four British Parliamentarians (Lord Ahmed, Lord Sheikh, Lord Patel, and MP Mohammad Sarwar) protested the arrest, calling it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Many of Siddiqui's supporters, including some international human rights organisations, claimed that Siddiqui was not an extremist and that she and her young children were illegally detained, interrogated, and tortured by Pakistani intelligence, US authorities, or both, during her five-year disappearance.〔 The US and Pakistan governments have denied all such claims. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aafia Siddiqui」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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