Aafia Siddiqui Research Paper

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Aafia Siddiqui, is a Pakistani who arrived in the United States in the early 90’s. She is the mother of three children, two girls and one boy. Aafia Siddiqui obtain a bachelor’s degree at Massachusetts Institute and an PH. D from Brandeis University. Aafia Siddiqui she is a neuro- scientist who is severing according to Pasquini (2015), “86-year sentence following a 2010 conviction for the attempted murder of FBI agent, U.S. solider, and interpreters in Ghazni, Afghanistan while she was being interrogated for allegedly having ties to terrorists” (p.1). In the year of 2003, Aafia Siddiqui and her children were kidnapped by some unknown attackers. Four men that had escaped from a U.S run prison at Bagram, Afghanistan told stories of a Pakistani

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