Siddiqui came to the United States on a student visa in 1990 for undergraduate and graduate education and eventually settled in Massachusetts . While completing the requirements for her Masters and her PhD in neuroscience in less than four years , she found time to marry and start a family , and volunteer with the Muslim Student Association and Al-Kifah Refugee Center , proselytizing , urging greater religious observance among Muslims , doing charity work , and urging support for jihad in Muslim countries such as Afghanistan and Bosnia . Immediately following the 9/11 attacks she returned to Pakistan but then returned to America where her husband was completing his board exams . Later she divorced her husband and in March 2003 disappeared with her three young children , shortly after the arrest in Pakistan of her second husband 's uncle , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the alleged chief planner of the September 11 attacks . Khalid Mohammed reportedly mentioned Siddiqui 's name while he was being interrogated , and shortly thereafter she was added to the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list
9/11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Aafia Siddiqui