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Ṣiddīqī, ʻĀfiyah, 1972-

LC control no.n 2009208996
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Personal name headingṢiddīqī, ʻĀfiyah, 1972-
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Variant(s)ʻĀfiyah Ṣiddīqī, 1972-
Lady Qaeda (Prisoner)
Siddiqui, Aafia, 1972-
Sadīkī, Āfīā, 1972-
Saddiqee, Aafia, 1972-
Other standard no.000000005900500X
86284338
Q300786
Associated countryPakistan
Associated placeAfghanistan Cambridge (Mass.) Massachusetts
LocatedFort Worth (Tex.)
Birth date1972-03-02
Profession or occupationNeuroscientists
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Found inQaidī nambar 650, ḍākṭar ʻĀfiyah Ṣiddīqī kā jurm kyā?, 2009: t.p. (Ḍakṭar ʻĀfiyah Ṣiddīqī) p. 19 (b. March 2, 1972)
Wikipedia WWW site, Apr. 9, 2009 (Aafia Siddiqui)
Āfīā Sadīkī dā jehāda, 2013: t.p. (Āfīā Sadīkī) t.p. verso (Aafia Saddiqee)
New York times, Jan. 18, 2022: in an article on page A12 entitled, "Officials study attack's link to an Islamist cause célèbre" (Aafia Siddiqui, a neuroscientist who was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was accused of trying to kill American soldiers and plotting to blow up the Statue of Liberty; since then, Siddiqui has spent almost 12 years in a federal prison in Texas; serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth; attended M.I.T and received a Ph.D. from Brandeis University, was taken into custody in Ghazni, Afghanistan in 2008; her native Pakistan; court proceedings became fodder for New York's tabloids, which nicknamed her "Lady Qaeda)