The Al Qaeda operative dubbed ‘Lady Al Qaeda’ bragged to her student friends at the age of just 21 that she would be proud to be on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Aafia Siddiqui, who was a biology major at MIT, said in 1993 that she wanted to do ‘something to help our Muslim brothers and sisters’ even if it meant breaking the law. She jumped to her feet and ‘raised her skinny little wrists in the air’ in a display of defiance that shocked her friends. An in-depth account of her journey to infamy also reveals that she took a National Rifle Association shooting class and persuaded other Muslims to learn how to fire a gun.
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During her 11 years as a student in the U.S., biology major Aafia Siddiqui become the Al Qaeda operative dubbed 'Lady Al Qaeda'
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At the age of just 21 she had bragged to student friends that she would be proud to be on the FBI’s Most Wanted list
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She took a National Rifle Association shooting class and persuaded other Muslims to learn how to fire a gun
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She lied to her husband and married him for his family’s connections to better enable her to wage jihad
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She was handed to the @placeholder and convicted of attempted murder two years later in a U.S. court.
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But her hatred for the @placeholder was so strong that during her interrogation she grabbed a rifle from one of her guards and shot at them shouting: ‘Death to Americans’.
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‘Part of it was because she was such a bad shot, but also because she was always mouthing off about the @placeholder and the FBI being so bad and all.’
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‘...By now, all her focus had shifted to jihad against @placeholder, instead of preaching to Americans so that they all become Muslims and America becomes a Muslim land’.
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‘...By now, all her focus had shifted to jihad against America, instead of preaching to Americans so that they all become @placeholder and America becomes a Muslim land’.