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Aafia Siddiqui: Deep Ties to Al-Qaida Resurface Yet Again

By Sean Osborne

5 July 2009:  According to the U.S. Department of Justice, it was not quite one year ago, on July 17 2008, when the female Al-Qaida terrorist, Aafia Siddiqui, was arrested due to suspicious behavior in Ghazni, Afghanistan by Afghan National Police (ANP). Siddiqui was arrested as she loitered outside the provincial governor?s compound.  A search of her handbag revealed documents on the manufacture of explosives in addition to data on chemical, biological and radiological weapons; descriptions of various landmarks in the United States, including New York City, and other unidentified ?substances? which were sealed in glass bottles. The next day a party composed of two FBI special agents and several U.S. Army personnel arrived at the ANP facility where Aafia Siddiqui was being held unrestrained in a second floor room behind a curtain which was directly adjacent to the room where the American?s were meeting with ANP officials...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on July 05, 2009 (boomark / email).