Bill GreenSADDIQUI RAPED ON US BASE IN AFGHANISTAN, ACCORDING TO FAMILY
August 17th 2008 00:00
How do we work out where we stand on Aafia Saddiqui's imprisonment? We have to work out if a woman, allegedly only recently arrested, and, knowing her children to be ok, would attempt to break free of the FBI, grab a gun, and risk death? She was, after all ,shot and wounded. Personally I would be skeptical if she would be that desperate after only a few days detention, for this was the first time she was to be interrogated by the FBI. I dismiss the FBI claims she had been arrested the day before and go for the five years incarceration, she claims.
Admittedly she was behind a yellow plastic curtain in the room, allegedly unbeknownst to the FBI agents, so they may have been discussing a torture plan for her. That may have prompted such a spontaneous and horrendously inadequate plan of escape.
She had been, according to her family, raped many times during her five years of incarceration in Bagram, the US base in Afghanistan. Again I go with family knowledge, as every English speaking person would if following a western story. Although many people don't believe foreigners tell the truth, I've found in decades of journalism that they do
The Guardian reports that last week Afghan police in Ghazani offered another competing version of her detention, telling Reuters that the US troops had demanded she be handed over, imagining she was a suicide bomber.
But she is to stand trial in the US where many understand she will get a fair trial. I wonder where her three children are?
Admittedly she was behind a yellow plastic curtain in the room, allegedly unbeknownst to the FBI agents, so they may have been discussing a torture plan for her. That may have prompted such a spontaneous and horrendously inadequate plan of escape.
She had been, according to her family, raped many times during her five years of incarceration in Bagram, the US base in Afghanistan. Again I go with family knowledge, as every English speaking person would if following a western story. Although many people don't believe foreigners tell the truth, I've found in decades of journalism that they do
The Guardian reports that last week Afghan police in Ghazani offered another competing version of her detention, telling Reuters that the US troops had demanded she be handed over, imagining she was a suicide bomber.
But she is to stand trial in the US where many understand she will get a fair trial. I wonder where her three children are?
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