Aafia Siddiqui.

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Aafia Siddiqui (Urdu: عافيہ صديقی) (born March 2, 1972) is an MIT and Brandeis alumna, originally from Karachi, Pak

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$Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman speaks during a news conference in this file still image taken from a February 1993 video footage released on January 18, 2013. The exclusives published by ANI during the Algerian hostage-taking provided tantalising clues about direct links between the Mulathameen and al Qaeda. The brigade, whose name means the \$

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Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui is seen in a February 3, 2010 courtroom sketch in New York City, New York, United States, in this still image taken from video footage on January 18, 2013. The Al-Qaeda linked kidnappers who took hundreds of people hostage at a gas plant in Algeria have offered to swap U.S. captives for two militants currently jailed in the United States, according to the Mauritanian news agency, ANI. The kidnappers named Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui and Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman as the militants they wish to be freed.

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Pakistani activists from the group Pasban perform as they celebrate the re-election of US President Barack Obama in Karachi on November 8, 2012 as they demanding the release of a Pakistan woman Aafia Siddiqui who is being sentenced to 86 years in prison for trying to shoot US military officers. Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in jail by a US court who found her guilty of the attempted murder of US military officers in Afghanistan in 2008.

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$In this courtroom drawing, Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui (R), 37, a neuroscientist trained at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is found guilty on February 3, 2010 in a federal court in New York. Siddiqui was accused of grabbing a rifle at an Afghan police station where she was being interrogated in July 2008 and trying to gun down a group of US servicemen. Although she was not charged with terrorism, prosecutors described her as a would-be terrorist who had also plotted to bomb New York. After being found guilty, she responded: \'This is a verdict from Israel, not America. The anger should be directed where it belongs.\'$

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Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman speaks during a news conference in this file still image taken from a February 1993 video footage released on January 18, 2013. The exclusives published by ANI during the Algerian hostage-taking provided tantalising clues about direct links between the Mulathameen and al Qaeda. The brigade, whose name means the "Masked Ones", echoed the classic demands of al Qaeda's central leadership: the release from U.S. prisons of Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian sheikh jailed for a 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, and of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, whose uncle by marriage was Sept. 11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammad. To match Feature MALI-REBELS/MAURITANIA.

Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui is seen in a February 3, 2010 courtroom sketch in New York City, New York, United States, in this still image taken from video footage on January 18, 2013. The Al-Qaeda linked kidnappers who took hundreds of people hostage at a gas plant in Algeria have offered to swap U.S. captives for two militants currently jailed in the United States, according to the Mauritanian news agency, ANI. The kidnappers named Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui and Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman as the militants they wish to be freed.

Pakistani activists from the group Pasban perform as they celebrate the re-election of US President Barack Obama in Karachi on November 8, 2012 as they demanding the release of a Pakistan woman Aafia Siddiqui who is being sentenced to 86 years in prison for trying to shoot US military officers. Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in jail by a US court who found her guilty of the attempted murder of US military officers in Afghanistan in 2008.

In this courtroom drawing, Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui (R), 37, a neuroscientist trained at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is found guilty on February 3, 2010 in a federal court in New York. Siddiqui was accused of grabbing a rifle at an Afghan police station where she was being interrogated in July 2008 and trying to gun down a group of US servicemen. Although she was not charged with terrorism, prosecutors described her as a would-be terrorist who had also plotted to bomb New York. After being found guilty, she responded: 'This is a verdict from Israel, not America. The anger should be directed where it belongs.'

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