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Aafia Siddiqui: the Pakistani female scientist 'on Isil's listof demands'Reports Isil demanded the release of a female scientist jailed for attempted murdersuggest the group is trying to build support for Isil in Pakistan and Afghanistan
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By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor12:37PM BST 21 Aug 2014
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The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) reportedly called for therelease of a female Pakistani scientist with ties to al-Qaeda in exchangefor James Foley.
According to the New York Times, Isil sent through a "laundry list" ofdemands to the United States which included the release of Dr Aafia
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Siddiqui, an MIT-trained neuroscientist currently incarcerated in a prisonin Texas.
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In the United States Dr Siddiqui is considered an al-Qaida courier andfundraiser involved in bomb making, but in Pakistan and Afghanistan,she is seen as an Islamic ‘damsel in distress’ who has been persecutedfor her faith.
Their demand taps into feelings of‘Muslim righteousness’ felt widelythroughout the two countries, saidMichael Semple, a leading expert on theTaliban and former European Unionrepresentative in Kabul.
Sympathy for Dr Siddiqui over her arrest,detention and extradition to the UnitedStates is so widespread in Pakistan thatits government offered to swap her for aCIA contractor who shot dead twoalleged robbers in a Lahore street in2011.
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Dr Siddiqui, a US-trained neuroscientist,was arrested in Ghazni, Afghanistan in2008 and found to have documents onchemical weapons, dirty bombs andviruses indicating she was planningattacks against American enemies.
When she was interviewed by Americansoldiers and FBI officers the following
day she allegedly grabbed a rifle left on a table and shot at herinterrogators. She was treated for gunshot wounds suffered in thestruggle and later sent to the United States where she was convicted ofattempted murder and jailed for 86 years.
A call for her release would indicate Isil has a contingent of Talibanveterans from Afghanistan and Pakistan, a leading terrorism expert toldthe Telegraph on Thursday.
Isil’s demands for her release would be tactical and strategic, Mr Semplesaid. “One explanation is that people from the Afghan-Pakistan theatrehave transferred to Iraq and Syria and her cause is part of theirbaggage.
“The strategic explanation is that it’s a good cause, she is a damsel indistress. Isil is trying to mobilise people in righteous condemnation of[what they see as] oppression of the Muslim nation at the hands of theWest,” he explained.
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Dr Ghairat Baheer, the son-in-law of Afghan insurgency leaderGulbuddin Hekmatyar, said he believed he had been held by theAmericans at Bagram jail at the same time as Dr Siddiqui and that shewas “mentally disturbed”.
“Muslims all over the world, but especially in Afghanistan and Pakistan,have great sympathy for her, regardless of her case, because she is alady and she was mentally disturbed. The sympathy for her is naturaland should be appreciated,” he said.
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and should be appreciated,” he said.
Palwasha Khan, a former member of the Pakistan National Assembly’sforeign affairs committee, said the country’s religious right had exploitedher treatment as a woman.
“The facts behind her incarceration remain murky and undisclosed todate. The anti-West sentiment in Pakistan also helped in evoking greatsympathy towards her and respective governments failed to bring thereal facts to light”, she said.
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