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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Boston Magazine: Restaurants, Shopping, Events, Best of Boston
Aafia Siddiqui moved to Texas in 1990 to be near her brother and had good enough grades after spending a year at the University of Houston to transfer to MIT.
Siddiqui’s family contends that her trip to Baltimore was for the sole purpose of finding a job, and that if she did open a post office box it was for the replies she hoped to get.
Siddiqui’s mother, Ismet, claims that a few days after Siddiqui’s disappearance, a man on a motorcycle arrived at her house in a leather suit and helmet and told her Aafia was being held and that she should keep quiet if she ever wanted to see her daughter and grandchildren again.
www.bostonmagazine.com /articles/whos_afraid_of_aafia_siddiqui   (3945 words)

  
  Aafia Siddiqui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aafia Siddiqui (Arabic: عافية صديقي) (DOB used: March 2, 1972) is an MIT alumna in biology wanted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for questioning in regard to terrorism.
Siddiqui wanted the children to be educated in the West and to live in America.
Although Aafia Siddiqui's current whereabouts are unknown, the FBI believes she is currently in Pakistan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui   (550 words)

  
 Aafia Siddiqui: Another Person Disappeared in the War on Terror | Left Turn: Notes from the Global Intifada
Aafia Siddiqui is one of the War on Terror’s “disappeared.” I have spent six months reading about her, and trying to write a poem.
Aafia Siddiqui was born on March 2, 1972, in Karachi, Pakistan.
Siddiqui’s professional field is alleged to be microbiology, she is alleged to be divorced from Mohammed Khan, or estranged from him, or he is simply referred to as her husband.
www.leftturn.org /node/634   (1507 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
FBI chief Robert Mueller described Siddiqui as an al Qaida operative and facilitator and said she was one of seven sought in connection with “possible terrorist threats” in the US.
The family did not know where Siddiqui was or if she was indeed still alive, and said it was possible that her ex-husband Muhammad Amjad Khan, a former Boston doctor now back in Pakistan, had kidnapped her and the couple’s three children, said the lawyer.
Her mother, Ismet Siddiqui, was the last to see her as she and her children got in a cab in Karachi.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040603/asp/foreign/story_3325903.asp   (398 words)

  
 PakDef Forums - One more Pakistani in FBI list
Dr Aafia's father had ridiculed the FBI's allegations, saying that the agency had all of a sudden declared her to be an Al Qaeda leader besides accusing her of supporting other "operatives of this group" entering the US.
Siddiqui is among seven people wanted for questioning by the Justice Department after authorities said they received credible intelligence reports pointing to a possible terror attack in the United States this summer.
FBI chief Robert Mueller described Siddiqui as an al Qaeda operative and facilitator and said she was one of seven sought in connection with "possible terrorist threats" in the United States.
www.pakdef.info /forum/printthread.php?t=5582   (1375 words)

  
 The strange story of Aafia Siddiqui
Aafia Siddiqi, the highly-qualified 29-year old Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist wanted by the FBI for her alleged membership of Al Qaeda, once flew from Quetta to Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, on a gem-smuggling assignment.
Siddiqui and her husband were by now being watched by the FBI for having used a debit card to buy night-vision goggles, body armour, and military manuals from American websites, and for donating to charities the FBI watches closely.
The last her mother remembers, Siddiqui was piling herself and her children, then seven, five, and six months old, into a taxi headed to the railway station, the first step of what she said was her planned trip to visit an uncle in Islamabad.
www.fact.com.pk /archives/novem/feng/afia.htm   (1889 words)

  
 Why Is Aafia Siddiqui On John Ashcroft's Wanted Poster?
One of the suspects is Aafia Siddiqui, a former Boston woman and American citizen with a biology degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Siddiqui's photo and particulars were subsequently broadcast on American TV and radio.
Last March it was reported she was arrested on the way to the Karachi airport and interrogated by Pakistani officials.
www.rense.com /general53/whis.htm   (875 words)

  
 Relatives of Wanted Alum Request Help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Last week, Siddiqui was the only woman among the list of suspects wanted by the FBI for questioning as part of the agency’s war on terrorism.
According to the lawyer representing Siddiqui’s family, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, Siddiqui was last seen in March 2003 getting into a cab in Islamabad with her three children to visit a relative.
Siddiqui's love of the United States was so strong, according to Sharp, that her husband, former Brigham and Women’s Hospital anesthesiologist Mohammed Khan, divorced her over their differences about how their three children would be raised.
www-tech.mit.edu /V124/N27/27_aafia_siddiqui.27n.html   (381 words)

  
 Suspect's kin seek help finding her - The Boston Globe
According to the lawyer representing Siddiqui's family, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, Siddiqui was last seen in March 2003 getting into a cab in Islamabad with her three children to visit a relative.
"If Aafia Siddiqui is alive, they want to know who's got her and they want to know why, and they want to get to the bottom of this because the family.
Siddiqui's love of the United States was so strong, according to Sharp, that her husband, former Brigham and Women's Hospital anesthesiologist Mohammed Khan, divorced her over their differences about how their three children would be raised.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/06/02/suspects_kin_seek_help_finding_her   (381 words)

  
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WASHINGTON: Aafia Siddiqi, the highly-qualified 29-year old Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist wanted by the FBI for her alleged membership of Al Qaeda, once flew from Quetta to Monrovia, Liberia's capital, on a gem-smuggling assignment.
To those who knew her, Aafia Siddiqui was a kind, quiet woman living the normal life of a Pakistani expat in Boston.
Aafia was, I think, probably a pretty naive and trusting person and my guess is it would be pretty easy for somebody who wanted to steal an identity to just steal it.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg116966.html   (2445 words)

  
 GlobalFreePress- Dep. INN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Pakistan's interior ministry has claimed that Dr Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani-American woman who was declared as a terrorist threat by the FBI, had been arrested in 2003 from Karachi and handed over to the US authorities.
Meanwhile, a statement issued by Dr Aafia's father, published in the press during March 2004, says she had been kidnapped in Karachi along with her three children aged between three-and-a-half months to seven years from March 25 to March 31, 2003....
Ismat Siddiqui told The News though the government had denied the arrest of her daughter, recently an unknown man came to her house and informed her that her daughter was safe and sound.
inn.globalfreepress.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=331   (2281 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
Dr Aafia Siddiqui, in her mid-30s, has a PhD in neurological sciences from the US.
Acquaintances of Aafia say she was an ISI contact and played an active role as a "relief worker" in Chechnya and Bosnia - a role the government now does not want to reveal.
However Aafia's case turns out, doubtless a number of al-Qaeda operators are already in detention in Pakistan to be produced when and as necessary.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FH04Df03.html   (1042 words)

  
 FBI hunt for al-Qaeda terror suspects in US - Global Terrorism - www.smh.com.au
Like the other suspects, Aafia Siddiqui, 32, once an award-winning Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student, has the ability to "undertake planning, facilitation and attack against the United States whether it be within the United States itself or overseas," FBI director Robert Mueller told a news conference.
Siddiqui is a picture of innocence amongst the dangerous-looking male suspects, but Mueller warned she was an "operative and facilitator" of Osama bin laden's al-Qaeda terror network.
Pakistan-born Siddiqui obtained a biology degree in 1995 and a doctorate in neurological science in 2001 and had studied at MIT and Brandeis University in the Boston area, as well as in Houston, local newspaper reports said.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/27/1085461876327.html   (631 words)

  
 Reported Capture of MIT Alumna Denied by FBI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Siddiqui is wanted for questioning by the FBI in connection with its investigation of al-Qaida.
Siddiqui, The Boston Herald reported March 23, lived in a Mission Hill apartment in Boston until August 2001 and is now suspected by the FBI to be in Pakistan.
Siddiqui has attracted international attention as the first woman to be sought by the FBI in connection with its pursuit of al-Qaida.
www-tech.mit.edu /V123/N16/16_al_queda.16n.html   (446 words)

  
 FBI Warns That Terrorists Could Make Simple, Deadly Chemical Weapon (Siddiqui, Shukrijumah)
Aafia was rumored to be prisoner in Pakistan.
Aafia Siddiqui, is wanted by the FBI for questioning about possible contacts with members of Osama Bin Laden 's terror network.
Aafia Siddiqui, a 34-year-old Pakistani national and mother of three, has fled Boston and is wanted for questioning by the FBI, Newsweek magazine reports.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1142601/posts   (4067 words)

  
 US in hot pursuit of Pak lady- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
A mother of three children, Aafia was estranged from her husband Mohammed Amjad Khan, a Harvard-trained anesthesiologist.
Aafia set off alarm bells in the US when she was named by terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a coordinator or helper for al-Qaeda in the US.
From all accounts though, Aafia was a model student and social activist during her years in the US.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-704078,prtpage-1.cms   (397 words)

  
 FBI Warns That Terrorists Could Make Simple, Deadly Chemical Weapon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Siddiqui, who has a doctorate in neurological science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, may be in Pakistan, FBI officials say.
The Bureau’s Baltimore office said it was looking for Dr Aafia Siddiqui, 31, and her husband Mohammed Khan, 33, about possible terrorist activities.
Dr Siddiqui, a resident of the Boston area, is said to have visited Gaithersburg, Maryland, in December last year or January, but the FBI would not say what significance that visit had and whom she met.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/876935/posts   (3046 words)

  
 DAWN - Opinion; November 15, 2006
They have no idea if the missing person is dead or alive, and if alive, in what condition.
After suffering in silence for years — there are people such as Dr Aafia Siddiqui (wanted by the FBI) and her three young children who vanished from Karachi in 2003 and are still unheard of — the affected families are now sufficient in number to raise their voice in protest.
In October they demonstrated before parliament house in Islamabad and received much media publicity.
www.dawn.com /2006/11/15/op.htm   (3698 words)

  
 LP: Aafia Siddiqui arrested in 2003?
Here is an article from 2003 indicating that Aafia Siddiqui, who Ashcroft and Mueller are expected to draw attention to at their news conference today, was arrested in Karachi in 2003 and interrogated by U.S. intelligence.
The reports quoted U.S. intelligence sources, saying Siddiqui was "essentially in the hands of the FBI now" but the sources refused to say whether she had been taken out of Pakistan.
Siddiqui reportedly worshipped at a mosque outside of Boston.
www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=51185   (1426 words)

  
 FBI seeks to question former MIT student - Campus Watch
Photographs of former MIT student Aafia Siddiqui and Dr. Mohammed Kahn were posted on the FBI's national website recently, with a request that anyone with information about their whereabouts call the Boston FBI office.
Little could be learned yesterday about Kahn, 33, but officials confirmed that Aafia Siddiqui received a biology degree from MIT in 1994.
Ken Campbell, MIT spokesman, said that university records show that Siddiqui lived in an on-campus dorm in 1995 and listed her home address as Karachi.
www.campus-watch.org /article/id/658   (409 words)

  
 Aafia Siddiqui mugshot - Mugshots.com - Biggest Directory of Mug shots on the internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This is the only woman on the recent FBI alert regarding possible terrorist attacks on the U.S. for the summer or fall of 2004.
Mett Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani native, seen here in an undated mug shot.
A former student at MIT who received a biology degree in 1994, Siddiqui is believed to be in Pakistan, but the Feds aren't sure.
www.mugshots.com /Terrorists/Aafia+Siddiqui.htm   (96 words)

  
 Pakistan Facts - FBI seeks to question former MIT student
An award-winning former MIT student, apparently involved in organizing Muslim student groups, and a fellow Pakistani national are being sought for questioning by the FBI on terrorism-related matters, FBI officials said yesterday.
Authorities said Siddiqui has a doctorate in neurological science and has studied at MIT and Brandeis University in the Boston area, as well as in Houston, Tex. Siddiqui listed her home as Karachi, Pakistan.
State corporate records in Massachusetts show that Siddiqui and Khan are officers of the Institute of Islamic Research and Teaching Inc., which has a mailing address in Roxbury.
www.pakistan-facts.com /article.php?story=20030321235301370   (479 words)

  
 Jihad Watch: Jihad in Boston: Al-Qaeda connection in Mission Hill
The St. Alphonsus Street apartment is listed as the address for the Institute for Islamic Research and Teaching, a nonprofit organization that listed Siddiqui as president, her husband as treasurer, and Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui, a woman believed to be her sister, as the resident agent.
Fowzia Siddiqui, who was once a fellow with the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and has affiliations with Harvard Medical School, abruptly left her job in the fall at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, according to a fellow doctor.
The doctor, who asked not to be identified, said he had heard the reason that she returned to Pakistan was the frequent questioning by investigators about her sister and because her husband and children were not allowed into the United States.
www.jihadwatch.org /archives/2004/04/001533print.html   (960 words)

  
 PHXnews.com | Where's Aafia?
Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-trained biologist, had had been sought for questioning by the FBI.
Ismat Siddiqui, Aafia's mother, reports that a stranger came to her house and told her that her daughter was safe and that she should not raise a hue and cry for her release.
Aafia has spent a lot of time in front of a keyboard and so may have left quite a paper trail.
www.phxnews.com /fullstory.php?article=8775   (817 words)

  
 Accuracy In Media - Blog - Cliff Kincaid
Aafia Siddiqui, Brandeis and the Anthrax Attacks: Questions for the Media
Aafia Siddiqui, for whom the FBI has issued an international alert, studied in the neurological sciences at Brandeis.
She obtained her PhD in 2001, having graduated from MIT with a degree in biology in 1994...what different labs did Aafia work in during her first year?...
www.aim.org /cliff_blog_entry/P1645_0_12_180   (409 words)

  
 Aafia Siddiqui   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Aafia Siddiqui (DOB used: March 2, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Her three young children were with her at the time she disappeared; their fate is even less clear, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Although Aafia Siddiqui's current whereabouts are unknown, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/aafia_siddiqui   (1096 words)

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