The man who authorities say took hostages inside a Colleyville synagogue reportedly demanded the release of a Pakistani woman who is imprisoned nearby on charges of trying to kill American service members in Afghanistan. Here's information on her case.
on Saturday demanded the release of a Pakistani woman who is imprisoned nearby on charges of trying to kill American service members in Afghanistan.The woman, Aafia Siddiqui, is serving an 86-year prison sentence after being convicted in Manhattan in 2010 on charges that she sought to shoot U.S. military officers while being detained in Afghanistan two years earlier.
Supporters of US-detained Pakistani woman Aafia Siddiqui, whose portrait is displayed in a cage, take a part in an anti-US demonstration in Karachi on March 7, 2010. Siddiqui, a neuroscientist trained at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of TecShe’s a Pakistani neuroscientist who studied in the United States at prestigious institutions — Brandeis University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Inside an interview room at an Afghan police compound, authorities say, she grabbed the M-4 rifle of one of a U.S. Army officer and opened fire on members of the U.S. team assigned to interrogate her. In the years since, Pakistani leaders have openly floated the idea of swaps or deals that could result in her release.
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