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That documents incriminating Dr. Aafia are either false documents or produced
under torture or threat of harm to her children.
That the Afghan police were looking for Dr. Aafia and her son based on a
description given by an anonymous tip on the day she was detained in Ghazni.
That had Dr. Aafia and her son been shot on sight on suspicion of being suicide
bombers, this would have led to a convenient closure of the case of Aafia
Siddiqui at a time when a petition for habeas corpus was pending in the High
Court of Pakistan in Islamabad. Note that this court had been asked to order
then-President Musharraf and the Pakistani government (which would include
anyone working with them) to release her or to reveal her whereabouts.
That Dr. Aafia, who spoke no local language in Ghazni, was dressed so
conspicuously in a manner to be easily identified and shot on sight as a (falsely-
accused) suicide bomber as a part of someone else’s plan.
The forensic and scientific evidence presented during the trial in New York
proved that Dr. Aafia could not have committed the crimes for which she was
charged, still the jury disregarded the evidence and chose to agree with the
prosecution due to fear and prejudice.
What Dr. Aafia’s detractors want?
We are asked to believe that Dr. Aafia, a respectable Pakistani woman in all
ways, is now the first and only female terrorist from Pakistan; was voluntarily
hiding under cover with three children acting as a terror field operative while at
the same time leaving her family to believe for five years that she and her three
children were dead.
We are asked to believe that Dr. Aafia arranged this just after her father died,
after finding out her marriage was disintegrating, and after leaving her widowed
mother alone in Pakistan. It is absolutely not plausible and does not even fit the
traditional profile by law enforcement of female or male terrorists from that part
of the world.
Current Situation:
In February, 2010, Dr. Aafia was tried and convicted in a US Federal court
on charges of attempted murder and assaulting US servicemen in Ghazni,