Captain attack case lawyer: Evidence planted

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Captain attack case lawyer: Evidence planted
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Aug 14, 2008 8:55:53 EDT

NEW YORK — A lawyer for a Pakistani woman charged with trying to kill U.S. military officers in a gunfight in Afghanistan accused the government Wednesday of setting up her client by planting evidence on her.

The lawyer, Elizabeth Fink, also accused the government of trying to poison the court process by leaking information about her client, Aafia Siddiqui, who was brought to the U.S. a week ago to face federal charges.

Siddiqui was arrested July 17 after she was found outside a governor’s compound in central Afghanistan’s Ghazni province carrying documents describing U.S. landmarks and containing recipes for chemical weapons, along with bottles and jars of chemicals, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in New York.

Siddiqui was shot July 18 after she snatched a soldier’s rifle, pointed it at an Army captain and fired two shots, which missed, the affidavit said. Her family has denied the accusations.

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“Of course they found all this stuff on her. It was planted on her,” Fink said. “She is the ultimate victim of the American dark side.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_captainattack_081308/