Aafia Siddiqui: the Pakistani female scientist 'on Isil's list of demands'

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Aafia Siddiqui: the Pakistani female scientist 'on Isil's list of demands'

 

Reports Isil demanded the release of a female scientist jailed for attempted murder suggest the group is trying to build support for Isil in Pakistan and Afghanista

Aafia Siddiqui and U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff

By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor

12:37PM BST 21 Aug 2014

• Latest developments following beheading of James Foley

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) reportedly called for the release of a female Pakistani scientist with ties to al-Qaeda in exchange for James Foley.

According to the New York Times, Isil sent through a "laundry list" of demands to the United States which included the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-trained neuroscientist currently incarcerated in a prison in Texas.

 

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Federal Medical Center, Carswell Location Fort Worth, Texas Status Operational Security class All security levels (with minimum-security prison camp) Population 1,380 (280 in prison camp) Managed by Federal Bureau of Prisons Warden Jody R. Upton

 

Aafia Siddiqui 90279-054 Serving an 86-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2083. Pakistani neuroscientist; convicted in 2010 of attempting to murder US soldiers and FBI Agents while in custody at a police station in Afghanistan after she was arrested on suspicion of being an Al-Qaeda operative in 2008.^[35]

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Can we just send them her head?

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Can we just send them her head?

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