Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Deobandi Muslim family . In 1990 , she went to study in the United States and obtained a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2001 . She returned to Pakistan for a time following the 9/11 attacks and again in 2003 during the war in Afghanistan . Khalid Sheikh Muhammad reportedly named her a courier and financier for Al-Qaeda , after his arrest and interrogation , and she was placed on the FBI Seeking Information - Terrorism list ; she remains the only woman to have been featured on the list . Around this time she and her three children disappeared in Pakistan
9/11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Aafia Siddiqui