Friday, January 15, 2010
She's not doing a very good job of supporting the conspiracy theorists that say she was an innocent picked up and used by the CIA: 'Lady Al Qaeda' cries foul: Accused terrorist Aafia Siddiqui says toss Jews from jury pool
Jury selection in the "Lady Al Qaeda" trial got off to a bizarre start Wednesday with the accused terrorist telling jurors she was "boycotting" - and demanding Jews be excluded from the panel.
"If they have a Zionist or Israeli background...they are all mad at me," said Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained neuroscientist charged with attempted murder.
"I have a feeling everyone here is them - subject to genetic testing....They should be excluded if you want to be fair," she told Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Berman.
Prospective jurors weren't present for that outburst, but they were in the courtroom to hear her say, "I'm boycotting the trial...there are too many injustices."
At another point, Siddiqui repeatedly refused to talk to her own lawyers, saying she didn't trust them.
"I don't trust you either," she told Berman.
She even tried to toss a handwritten note to prosecutors requesting time each day to pray. Berman said time would be set aside.
Siddiqui, 37, is accused of picking up an M-4 Army rifle and firing two rounds at a team of Americans who tried to question her in Afghanistan on July 18, 2008...[More.]
She attended MIT and Brandeis. Just sayin'.
OK. Screen jurors to weed out muslims.
Since it's winter and water freezes at 32F, SNOWBOARD her.
MIT (my alma mater), Brandeis, and Sinai Hospital in Baltimore (where I was born and later trained). Some pedigree for a serious terrorist, isn't it?
Ironically, were there to be some Jews, especially "progressive" one, on the jury, her chances of a hung jury might be better.
The prosecutors should be pleased that she has chosen to veil herself. That will go along nicely with the evidence they have to present. (I do wonder why the judge is going to allow into evidence Siddiqui's handwritten notes and supposed "target list," but not her copied terror manuals and the 2 pounds of cyanide she was caught with.)
I eagerly wait the 'progressive' blogs to agree violently with this. This is like red meat to them, particularly the readers and acolytes of Glenn Greenwald.
Oops, I misspoke (#3). The only commonality I share with this Siddiqqi is MIT. It is a Siddiqqi's sister, F. Siddiqqi, who worked as a neurologist at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, not A. Siddiqqi herself.
Better to hang her than to hang the jury.