Something is not quite kosher about the "official" story of Dr. Aafia.
I posted about her earlier, when I first heard about her. I did so because something about the official American account of her arrest in Afghanistan and her appearance in a New York Court this past summer, just did not ring true.
If you have a minute, take a look at that earlier post here.
She was to have appeared again on September 4th., but refused to undergo the mandatory "cavity" search before being taken to the courtroom.
A second hearing was then scheduled for Tuesday. It didn’t happen either…perhaps for the same reason. And who could blame her for refusing to undergo the intrusive and unnecessary body search.
Ms Siddiqui is a woman in limbo today.
Her American lawyer says she is in a state of psychosis, induced by more than 4 years of torture in an American-controlled prison.
Now her American prosecutors say she may not be mentally fit to stand trial.
The American judge in the case has re-scheduled her courtroom appearance for some time in December.
You can read more about that happened on Tuesday by clicking here.
Curiouser and curiouser
I read an interesting article written by Mr. Arar in the Globe last week. I admire the fact that he survived the degrading humiliation and is trying to make Canadians aware that nothing has been done since his experience to ensure that this doesn’t happen to someone else.
How could torture be any more cruel than is happening to this woman you write about? The outcome of this is of extreme importance as just how much cruelty and humiliating abuse should be allowed towards a person who is “innocent until proven quilty?”
Yes, the “official” US version does seem far-fetched. But so does the story given by Aafia’s sister Fouzia that Aafia was sold to the US by Musharraf’s son, held in Baghram AFB and tortured for the past four years. I look forward to the trial, so we have a chance of getting to the truth. Ms. Siddiqui does have numerous links to terrorism and radicalism, including her marriage to an Al Quaeda member. Yes, she’s innocent until proven guilty, but there are too many links to sketchy people for this case to be baseless.
I think the word “sold” in Pakistan also means “betrayed”.
Also…I recently read that the U.S. offers quite large ‘bounties’for information leading to the arrest of terrorist suspects.