Friday, September 24, 2010

Pakistan: It's the weekend so "Death to America" again!

These people should really get some new material! 
'Death to America' is kinda, well you know - done to death. 

I mean what do their neighbors think? What is all that racket? 

"Oh it's those damn Mahfouz's going on with that relentless 'Death to America' chant again".  Really, it's just gonna drag the neighborhood down.

 

Aafia Siddiqui sentenced to 86 years for attempted murder of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents

First, she was "mentally ill," and now she says she's not. Then again, the insanity defense didn't work out, anyway, and so turned out not to be useful. An update this story.
"Pakistani Woman Sentenced to 86 Years for Trying to Kill Americans," by Chad Bray for the Wall Street Journal, September 23 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
NEW YORK--A Pakistani woman trained as a scientist in the U.S. was sentenced to 86 years in prison Thursday after she was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan two years ago.
Aafia Siddiqui, 38 years old, was convicted in February of grabbing a soldier's M-4 assault rifle and trying to shoot an assembled group of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and soldiers at an Afghan police compound in July 2008.
 Full article here.

Pakistan "erupts" over jailing of female jihadist, with shouts of "Death to America"

As ever, "eruptions" are awfully easy to come by there. An update on this story. "Pakistan erupts over jailing of scientist Aafia Siddiqui," from Agence France-Presse, September 24 (thanks to PRCS):
Pakistani police used tear gas to disperse protesters who shouted "Death to America" in outrage after a US court jailed a woman scientist for 86 years for attempting to murder US officers.
In a case that has been condemned across the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of 167 million, the government said it would petition Washington to secure the mother of three's repatriation on humanitarian grounds.
 Full article here.