Pakistani scientist guilty in US servicemen attacks
NEW YORK: Dr Aafia Siddiqui–a US-educated Pakistani woman was found guilty Wednesday of trying to kill American servicemen in Afghanistan.
Aafia Siddiqui, 37, a neuroscientist trained at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was found guilty on all charges by a jury in federal court.
She was accused of being a would-be terrorist who in July 2008 grabbed a rifle at an Afghan police station where she was being interrogated and tried to gun down a group of US servicemen.
Siddiqui — who some human rights activists claim may have been a secret prisoner at a US military base in Bagram, Afghanistan — pleaded not guilty.
Her lawyers tried to prove she was insane, but a judge ruled her fit to stand trial.
