Kidnapped, Tortured, Raped, Her Children Taken Away (and killed?) Our CIA??

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Kidnapped, Tortured, Raped, Her Children Taken Away (and killed?) Our CIA??

Edited on Wed Dec-10-08 02:05 PM by leftchick

This is the worst story I have read yet on the rendition and torture program. All I can say is God Forgive America.

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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

http://counterpunch.com/lendman12102008.html

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui - "Prisoner 650"

A brief word about Aafia. She's a highly educated researcher with a doctorate in genetics from MIT. She mysteriously disappeared from Karachi in March 2003 with her three children, after which Pakistani officials denied any knowledge of her whereabouts. It was later learned she was at Bagram under draconian conditions with her children (aged one month to seven years). She's incarcerated now in New York, but it's not known if her children are still alive and if so where they're held.

Human rights organizations, British journalist Yvonne Ridley, and MP Lord Nazir raised questions about her detention, and, according to Nazir "she (was) physically tortured and continuously raped by the officers at the prison" - for over four years. Chalk it up to "Western values" that (in a post-9/11 climate) view Muslims as sub-humans to be subjected to unlimited degradations.

Ridley called Aafia a "grey lady" "because she (was) almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her. This would never happen to a Western Woman." It did to Aafia, and her ordeal continues under US detention.

‘The Most Dangerous Woman in the World’

http://draafia.org/2008/11/28/the-most-dangerous-woman-in-the-world/

http://draafia.org/

Siddiqui says she was kidnapped that day, on her way to the airport. She says her abductors took away Ahmed, Mariam and the baby. The last thing she remembers, she says, was receiving an injection in her arm. She says that when she regained consciousness she was in a prison cell, which she believes was on a military base in Afghanistan, because she heard aircraft taking off and landing. She claims that she was held in solitary confinement for more than five years, and that it was always the same Americans who interrogated her, without masks or uniforms. For days, she says, they would play tape recordings of her children’s terrified screams, and she claims that she was forced to write hundreds of pages about the construction of dirty bombs and attacks using viruses.

The baby, Suleman, was taken away immediately, she says. They showed her a photograph of Ahmed, the seven-year-old, lying in a pool of blood. The only one of her children they occasionally showed her, she says, was Mariam — as a vague outline behind a pane of frosted glass.

Could this story be true?

Several Pakistani media outlets did report her arrest. A year after her disappearance, Dawn, a daily newspaper normally considered to have good sources, quoted a spokesman from the Pakistani interior ministry saying that Siddiqui was arrested in Karachi and later handed to the Americans. On April 21, 2003, the US television network NBC ran a story about Siddiqui’s arrest on the evening news.

Pakistani intelligence sources report that Siddiqui was in Pakistani detention until the end of 2003 and that her son Suleman fell ill and died during that time. It is known that terrorism suspects often spend a period of time in the country before being turned over to the Americans. According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, there are 52 secret prisons in the country, into which thousands of Pakistanis are believed to have disappeared since the beginning of the war on terrorism.

A number of other prisoners held at Bagram Air Base, the site of the most important US detainee camp in Afghanistan, say they heard a woman screaming. Some claim two women were there. The woman was nicknamed the “gray lady of Bagram.”

Brit female scribe says Dr Aafia’s illegal detention a violation of int’l law

http://www.topnews.in/law/brit-female-scribe-says-dr-aafia-s-illegal-detention-violation-int-l-law

Dr Aafia SiddiquiKarachi, Nov 5: A leading female British journalist has reportedly said that the new US President should close various torture cells, including Guantanamo Bay, where, she added, the condition of female inmates was miserable as they were abused, both physically and sexually.

Strongly taking up the case of Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is languishing in a US jail on “terror” charges, Marium Evon Raidley, the Brit journalist, said, “the illegal custody of 36-year old Dr Aafia Siddiqui is a blatant violation of international law”.

Dr Siddiqui’s whereabouts have been uncertain since 2003. According to Amnesty International, Dr Siddiqui and her three children were apprehended in Karachi in March 2003, after the FBI issued an alert requesting information on her location earlier that month.

Dr Aafia and her 12-year-old son were arrested in Ghazni, Afghanistan, on July 17 and American officials accuse her of trying to bomb the residence of Ghazni’s provincial governor.

Dr Siddiqui is a Pakistani national and if there are any charges against her, she should have been tried in Afghanistan, the Daily Times quoted her as saying while addressing a press conference in Karachi.

A new man in the White House might make a difference, amid increasing pressure from the American public, she said and added: “I do not believe that the American people approve of the policies of the Bush administration.”