Texas synagogue hostages freed, British gunman dead

[Reichsmarschall]

Swat

Good riddance, now make his whole family disappear

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Killed by SWAT or self inflicted?

They aren't saying much. It was some FBI Hostage Rescue team so I'm guessing they shoot first and ask questions later.

 

[Norwegian]

They aren't saying much.

They haven't named the suspect too

 

[khansaheeb]

Personally I think Musharraf did the right thing. Those were desperate times back in 2001. Back then Pakistan was a much weaker country. I wouldn't make a judgment.
How hard our ancestors worked to get this far. Also Pakistan was threatened to be bombed back to the Stone age.

APML or Musharraf's political party, I would vote for him over IK.

But Musharraf is sick at the moment and is a old man now.
Musharraf was a better leader than Nawaz Sharif and Bhutto family.

Desperate people do desperate crimes, so who is going to pay for it? People were sold by some corrupts in the agencies for green cards and dollars and Aafia Siddiqi was dragged into it.

 

[Riz]

They haven't named the suspect too

Allah kary Pakistani na ho

 

[Warking]

It could be that some of the hostages are Israelis visiting USA?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1482463339385171970

Ah another Israeli Shazish. BTW why do we even have an Israeli here?

 

[khansaheeb]

Good riddance, now make his whole family disappear

Seems like your intelligence has disappeared. Funny thing is that even though she was a US citizen the British called her Paksitani:-
"The hostage-taker was also heard demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who is currently serving an 86-year prison term in the US, law enforcement officials told local media."

If she was white she would never have been called a native of their country of origin.

They haven't named the suspect too

It takes time to contrive a new name and identity and history.

 

[Muhammad Saftain Anjum]

The same way I refuse to get triggered by the West for the so called Uigher issue,

Is not Uigher issue a real one??

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Seems like your intelligence has disappeared. Funny thing is that even though she was a US citizen the British called her Paksitani:-
"The hostage-taker was also heard demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who is currently serving an 86-year prison term in the US, law enforcement officials told local media."

If she was white she would never have been called a native of their country of origin.

It takes time to contrive a new name and identity and history.

Afia is a terrorists who is serving the time for involvement in terrorist activities. There is no yahood sazish in this.

 

[Warking]

Stop watching Haqeeqat TV

Stop watching CNN

 

[khansaheeb]

Afia is a terrorists who is serving the time for involvement in terrorist activities. There is no yahood sazish in this.

She was not jailed for terrorism but for the alleged attempt to kill her abductors. So please get your facts right.

 

[TigerOfMysore]

Afia is a terrorists who is serving the time for involvement in terrorist activities. There is no yahood sazish in this.

It is amazing how some Pakistanis will grab on a thread and twig and build a whole fanciful story.

Aafia was no lamb, she was a know Jehadi (even prior to her incarceration) consorting person to PK Intel agencies, who at the minimum acted as a courier if not worse. She was not picked up in Pakistan, but in Afghanistan (there is only a small doubt on this one).
The only thing that smacks wrong to me is that: she travelled on her PK passport (but was a dual US national), and hence should have been afforded Pakistan Consul Access. Unfortunately in those days nobody cared about any of those sort of legalities. PK did not make a stink about the issue which they could have, but I doubt it would have made any difference. And her interrogation was likely not a walk in the park (and likely illegal), as in I would not put mental/physical torture beyond the realm. Arresting and jailing her for her interrogation antics (the AK grab) was also more about expediency than any measure of reality. But to say that she was not a raving lunatic Jehadi is WRONG! Even she would not say that, and her court ravings throughout the case, speak to her leanings.

 

[Warking]

It's obvious, Israel is the protector of Jewish people all around the world, it isn't limited to protecting Israelis.
Ethiopian Jews for example, were rescued from Ethiopia and were granted Israeli citizenship.

At this point just arrest the whole family.

Open your Torah and read what it says about homosexuality and Liberalism as well as ethnic cleansing. Israel is far from Jewish in my eyes.

 

[nahtanbob]

Sister of 'Lady al Qaeda': 'We want no violence in Aafia's name' | CNN

The sister of a Pakistani prisoner described as the "poster girl" for Islamic jihad has urged ISIS hostage-takers to let their captives go.

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Karachi, Pakistan CNN —
The sister of a Pakistani prisoner described as the “poster girl” for Islamic jihad has urged ISIS hostage-takers to let their captives go.

Speaking exclusively to CNN from her home in Karachi, Pakistan, the sister of Dr. Aaifa Siddiqui said the jailed neuroscientist’s family wanted “no violence in Aafia’s name.”

“I’m Aafia’s sister. We’re Aafia’s family. And we speak on her behalf as well. We want no violence in Aafia’s name. Our whole struggle has been one that is dignified that is peaceful that is legal,” Fowzia Siddiqui said.

A jury in New York convicted Aafia Siddiqui on seven charges, including attempted murder and armed assault on U.S. officers, in 2010. No one was wounded in the incident. She is serving her 86-year sentence at a facility in Texas.

At the time of the 2008 shooting, Siddiqui was in police custody after being arrested outside the Ghazni governor’s compound in Afghanistan. She was said to be acting suspiciously and found to be carrying “numerous documents describing the creation of explosives, chemical weapons, and other weapons involving biological material and radiological agents,” according to court documents.


The papers included descriptions of various U.S. landmarks and military assets, excerpts from the “Anarchist’s Arsenal,” and a number of chemical substances in bottles and glass jars, the documents said.

Terror links?

Siddiqui has never been charged with a terror-related offence, though U.S. authorities made the link long before her capture. In 2004, she was placed on an FBI alert list as a sought-after al Qaeda member.



Her family has insisted she has no ties to terror.

“There is no connection with al Qaeda, the Taliban or any terrorist organization. She wasn’t even charged with terrorism,” Fowzia said.

However, Saddiqui’s name has recently appeared on documents purportedly from Islamic militants in Syria. A letter sent to the family of U.S. journalist James Foley, before video of his beheading surfaced this month, said the U.S. government had been given “many chances” to negotiate for his release. It singled out Siddiqui by name.

“We have also offered prisoner exchanges to free the Muslims currently in your detention like our sister Dr Afia Sidiqqi (sic), however you proved very quickly to us that this is NOT what you are interested in,” the email said, which was published in full on the GlobalPost website.


“When I hear these things, like Lady al Qaeda –I don’t even want to repeat that word – and you know, it hurts. It really hurts.”

Deborah Scroggins, the author of “Wanted Women,” said Siddiqui had become a cause de celebre for followers of jihad.

“She is an icon, she is the poster girl for jihad, a rallying point … she’s not just any woman, she is the premier symbol of the Muslim woman in distress,” she said.

Conflicting accounts

Fowzia, an accomplished clinical neurologist who trained at Harvard Medical School, said her family had suffered tremendously since Aafia vanished with her three young children in March 2003.

She had just finished her thesis in cognitive neuroscience, and had left the family home to go to Islamabad, but never arrived. The youngest child was just six months old.

“It’s as if she had fallen off the surface of the Earth … I can’t tell you how painful it was not knowing. You know if someone dies then you have a closure. Here, there was no closure,” Fowzia said.

Five years of rumor and false leads ended in 2008 when news emerged that Aafia was in U.S. custody, accused of crimes for which she was later imprisoned.

Prosecutors said Siddiqui shot at two FBI special agents, a U.S. Army warrant officer, an Army captain and military interpreters while she was being held unsecured at an Afghan facility on July 18, 2008. The warrant officer returned fire, shooting her in the torso, according to court documents.

Her family said the official version of events was wrong.

“She was in custody. How could she in custody snatch a rifle, or even pick up a rifle from six armed U.S. marshals, one woman?” she asked. “I mean, these are U.S. Marshalls, FBI agents trained in weaponry, how could she? It just doesn’t make sense.”

Calls for release

Fowzia said her sister was the victim of the “war on terror,” that she said had created an atmosphere of fear and prejudice against Muslims.


“It’s like they are labeled guilty and not even given a proper chance to prove their innocence, and a similar kind of thing happened with my sister,” she said.

She said a lot of a misinformation had created a false impression of a woman who had wanted to use her degree to improve education in Pakistan. The family claims Aafia was never married to the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, as had been widely reported.

A online petition to the White House seeking Aafia’s release has received more than 100,000 signatures over several weeks, and her family is currently seeking her release on appeal.

“Aafia should be released, but not for ransom, not in exchange, not for other people that are kidnapped by extremists, no. She should be released because that is the right thing to do,” Fowzia said.

 

[Goritoes]

There is more to Afia's story that meets the eye, we know she tried to kill a FBI agent and try to grab rifle of a US personnel but does that get her that long 84 year old sentence ? I also I was reading that even ISIS tries to negotiate her release using a Journalist who was later executed by ISIS, I mean why is she that important that US let a hostage die but did not release her when in Past US did released several Taliban hardcore fighters and commanders as hostage exchange, what is that about her that US is not even entertaining the talks on her release? anyone knows the full aspect of her story ? @SQ8 @HRK