ISLAMABAD: Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani prisoner in the United States whose release was reportedly demanded by a Texas hostage-taker this weekend, is serving an 86-year sentence for the attempted murder of American soldiers. At 18 years old Siddiqui travelled to the US, where her brother lived, to study at Boston's prestigious MIT, later earning a PhD in neuroscience at Brandeis …
On January 15, four people, including a rabbi, were held hostage at a synagogue in Texas, US. The hostage-taker demanded the release of the infamous ‘lady al-Qaeda’ Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently lodged in a US prison just 15 miles from the synagogue where the incident happened. Source: Twitter CAIR identifies itself as Muslim civil rights organisation in the United …
