New York, February 05: Pakistani neuroscientist, Aafia Siddiqui, has been found guilty of attempted murder by grabbing a soldier’s gun and opening fire on American soldiers and FBI agents when they came to question her in a holding room in the city of Ghazni in Afghanistan.
The decision was reached by the jury of a federal court in Manhattan who deliberated for almost two days. The 37-year-old, Siddiqui, faces up to 60 years in prison for attempted murder and armed assault. “This is a verdict coming from Israel and not from America,” she said, after the verdict was announced. “That’s where the anger belongs. I can testify to this and I have proof.”
Siddiqui, a neuroscience specialist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fled to her native Pakistan in 2003 after marrying an al-Qaida operative related to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11 terror attacks.
-Agencies