Siddiqui, a 38-year-old neuroscientist, was jailed last week by a New York
court for 86 years for the attempted murder of US agents and soldiers
who were trying to interrogate her in Afghanistan.
Posted on 09/27/2010 2:00:02 AM PDT by Cardhu
Taliban militants are holding the British woman kidnapped in Afghanistan and want to exchange her for a female Pakistani scientist jailed last week in America, it has been reported.
A local Taliban commander named Mohammad Osman said he had kidnapped the woman and her Afghan colleagues in Kunar province on Sunday.
He told an Afghan press agency with close ties to the Taliban that he was demanding an exchange for Aafia Siddiqui.
Siddiqui, a 38-year-old neuroscientist, was jailed last week by a New York court for 86 years for the attempted murder of US agents and soldiers who were trying to interrogate her in Afghanistan.
Mohammad Osman told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), based in Peshawar in northeastern Pakistan: “We are lucky that we abducted this British woman soon after the ruthless ruling by an American court on Aafia Siddiqui
“We will demand the release of Aafia Siddiqui in exchange for her.”
British government policy is never to pay ransoms to kidnappers, but London and Washington are in contact over the report.
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Yousaf Raza Gilani, the Pakistani prime minister, called on America to repatriate a “daughter of the nation” to improve its image in Pakistan.
The Taliban commander said Siddiqui was a sister to all Muslims."
If the taliban want her, that’s all the more reason not to let her go. But obama will make sure his muslim “sister” will find her way back home.
Don’t these Mohammedans ever work?
They always seem to be out in the streets with their fists raised, their mouths opened, and their faces grotesquely contorted with rage.
They always seem to be out in the streets with their fists raised, their mouths opened, and their faces grotesquely contorted with rage.
So. You understand exactly who the followers of islam are!
I think that that is how they earn their daily bread.
LLS
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