Pakistan Produces the Goods, Again (terrorists on demand)

[Minstrel Boy]

Interesting piece analyzing how Pakistan produces "top al Qaeda operatives" at will. It's easy, when they're assets of its intelligence service.

Pakistan produces the goods, again
by Syed Saleem Shahzad
Asia Times, August 4

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The next 'target'?
Dr Aafia Siddiqui, in her mid-30s, has a PhD in neurological sciences from the US. She is believed to have Pakistani and US nationality. She is wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as an "al-Qaeda operative and facilitator" and in connection with "possible terrorist threats" in the US. September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (caught in Pakistan) is believed to have told authorities about Aafia.

She disappeared, with her three children, a few months ago in Pakistan. Asia Times Online sources claim that she is in the custody of the ISI. All calls by her family and humanitarian groups for her to be produced in court have been ignored.

Acquaintances of Aafia say she was an ISI contact and played an active role as a "relief worker" in Chechnya and Bosnia - a role the government now does not want to reveal. She has also been connected with different Arab non-governmental organizations in the US, through which she also helped to supply aid and funds to Chechens.

However Aafia's case turns out, doubtless a number of al-Qaeda operators are already in detention in Pakistan to be produced when and as necessary.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FH04Df03.html

[Art_from_Ark]

1. All arrests in 3rd world countries are suspect

especially in dictatorships like Pakistan.