Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published September 5, 2008.
A federal grand jury in New York this week indicted a behavioral scientist on charges that she tried to kill her American
terrogators when she was arrested in Pakistan in July. It is alleged she has ties to al-Qaeda, but no terrorism charges were files. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who disappeared in 2003 with her three children during a stay in Karachi, has become a cause célèbre among Pakistanis. The US government says it had no idea of Siddiqui's whereabouts till her arrest this July in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Her supporters say she's just one of the 600 Pakistanis disappeared by Pakistan's government to serve the US war on terror. From New York, Madiha Tahir reports.
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