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My Children Were Tortured, This Trial is a Sham

By Press TV

Pakistani citizen Aafia Siddiqui has told jurors at her trial that she was held in a secret prison in Afghanistan, her children were tortured, and the case against her is a sham.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24454.htm



US Frame-up of Aafia Siddiqui Begins to Unravel

Pakistani victim of rendition and torture

By Ali Ismail

Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui went on trial in a federal courtroom in New York City on January 19, charged with the attempted murder of US personnel in Afghanistan's Ghazni Province in 2008. The case against Dr. Siddiqui, 37, is rapidly unraveling due to lack of evidence and discordant testimony from witnesses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24547.htm



"Shock, Horror, Drama" That You Won't Read In The New York Times

By Yvonne Ridley in New York

Possibly the most wronged woman in the entire War on Terror had just revealed how she was held in secret prisons, with no legal representation, cut off from the outside world since 2003 where brutal interrogation techniques were used to break her down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24566.htm



The Truth About US Justice

By Yvonne Ridley

Many of us are still in a state of shock over the guilty verdict returned on Dr Aafia Siddiqui.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24605.htm



The Terror-Industrial Complex

By Chris Hedges

The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security does not come from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, kidnappers, killers and torturers our government employs around the globe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24611.htm



Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Justice in the Service of Empire

By Zahir Ebrahim

The masses are well aware that the Pakistani elite, the ever patriotic praetorian guards, and their coterie of miserable sycophants have already learnt that while one's abject service to empire can sometimes be hazardous to one's existential wellness, it also routinely calls for new faces in many a chief's seat and presents the fabulous opportunity to loot and plunder anew in the name of patriotism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24691.htm



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