One former CIA weapons of mass destruction analyst who tracked (Aafia) Siddiqui said that she became extremely frustrated years ago, however, when she was told by senior Al Qaeda leaders to help their cause by getting pregnant.
“They told her that the best thing she could do for Al Qaeda was to start popping out little jihadists,” said the former CIA officer, who left the agency in 2006. “She was furious; she knows more about this stuff than pretty much anyone in the organization.”
Siddiqui never gave up her desire to launch attacks against the United States and its allies, according to FBI and Justice Department records made public Monday night.
According to court papers, Afghan national police officers in Ghazni province, south of Kabul, the capital, observed Siddiqui acting suspiciously near the provincial governor’s compound July 17.
When they searched her handbag, they found documents relating to explosives, chemical weapons and weapons involving biological materials and radiological agents, along with descriptions of landmarks in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, and liquid and gel substances sealed in bottles and jars.
Siddiqi, who had earned an undergrad degree from MIT in biology and a PhD in behavioral neuroscience from Brandeis (of all places for an Islamist terrorist!) allegedly served as a US-based “fixer” for admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, before decamping back to her native Pakistan in 2002 as the dragnet tightened around her. Arrested last month in Afghanistan, she apparently managed to wrest a weapon away from a distracted US guard and shoot the room up before being herself taken down.
Charming.
I hope she didn’t hurt any of our people shooting the room up, but I’m damn glad she saved us the price of a trial. Good Riddance..wonder what kind of “72″ she gets?
Byron, you’re a bit premature with your question in that she’s still with us, according to the story. Lucky us. And in the USA, too? Probably meeting with her ACLU lawyers right now to discuss the lawsuit for assault and battery, kidnapping, wrongful imprisonment, and theft of her belongings, among other things, that they will complain of.
Charming woman. One can hope that something nasty and fatal befalls her….immediately after she finishes spilling the beans on her cohorts. Not holding my breath.
One wonders how much of her America-hating she picked up at U.S. institutions of higher indoctrination.
A prime candidate for equal opportunity waterboarding as far as I am concerned.
The Army really needs to improve their pistol marksmanship so they don’t create more problems like this.
You folks are thinking small-time. Me? I’m thinking Reality Show. All-Female Prison Movie, with rights to distribute up for bid.
Jihadi Vixens. Yeah, has a ring to it.
Seriously, can you imagine what this has to do for morale?
“Hi! I’m an intelligent, educated woman capable of doing darned near anything. What need can I fill? I want to help the cause.”
“There’s an opening for a sperm cuspidor, followed by 9 months as an incubator…”
“Yeah, let me think about that and get back to you. So, nothing in the secretary pool or applied physics departments then?”
Makes it kind of difficult to recruit the best and brightest, I’d think.
– Max
What keeps me up at night, (besides posting comments to blogs!) is wondering how many more like Siddiqi are out there right now, on American campuses, being indoctrinated into hating “the Great Satan,” by some leftist tenured professor who thinks that all we need to do is to “end the suffering and injustice in the Muslim World” to end the terrorist threat.
Damn, somehow I translated “taken down” as “dead”. Here in Jacksonville, I guarantee you she would have been, if she’d done something like this to the cops here (and no, that’s not a complaint)
When they searched her handbag, they found … liquid and gel substances sealed in bottles and jars.
Uh-oh! I’m not only married to a potential terrorist, but I spawned another little Femme Jihadi too!
Post-Partum depression induced perhaps?
Barring the major issues I have with her politics, I find the combination of intelligence and ability to handle automatic weapons strangely alluring.
Could do with a makeover though. That lipstick really doesn’t do anything for her at all.
Drew C.,
No offense, it’s just that I seriously doubt she meets the criteria for the list.