Pakistan erupts after US jailing of 'daughter of the nation' Aafia Siddiqui

[CHIMO]

Source: guardian.co.uk

Pakistan's prime minister hailed a scientist convicted of attempting to kill American soldiers as the "daughter of the nation" today, and vowed to redouble efforts to secure her return to Pakistan.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets after a New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, a US-educated neuroscientist and mother of three, to 86 years in jail.

Police fired teargas and scuffled with protesters surging towards the heavily fortified US consulate in her hometown, Karachi.

In Multan people burned posters of Barack Obama and the former ruler General Pervez Musharraf.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/24/pakistan-aafia-siddiqui-jailed-protests

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[Xipe Totec]

1. Well, this qualifies as an MFU

Major Fuck Up.

[dkf]

2. Sounds like there is a lot more here.

[Robb]

3. Yup. nt

[bloomington-lib]

4. Im not really sure want everyone's pissed off about

Do they think her sentence was too long? Or that she didn't really open fire on U.S. soldiers? If I shot at anyone, I wouldn't be surprised about going to jail, although 86 years is a shit ton of time.

[pmorlan1]

7. Here is something that will help answer your question

Just because our government and the MSM says something is so doesn't necessarily mean it's true. There is another version of this story that you might not have heard about. Here is a piece from 2006 that gives some additional information. There are other pieces on the net that add in even more details...

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/whos_afraid_of_aafia_siddiqui/

[ultimas_blade]

5. Can't say that her imprisonment is unjust...

I mean she was shoot at people and was caught with bomb making material etc. I think it sucks that her kids don't have a mother any more though.

[AlbertCat]

6. Ahhhhh.... our allies!

Aren't they GREAT?

[rug]

8. What was she doing in an Afghan jail cell?

From the link:

"In the trial Siddiqui, a diminutive 38-year-old, was accused of snatching a gun from an American soldier in an Afghan jail cell in July 2008 and opening fire.

"Although she hit nobody, she herself was shot in the stomach by an American officer and, a month later, flown to America to face trial."

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