Who is Aafia Siddiqui, “Lady Al Qaeda”

“We won’t let her die in a cell in America.” So said from Pakistan, twelve years ago, the family of Aafia Siddiqui. On the reasons why the woman, mother of three children, graduated in neuroscience from one of the most prestigious American universities, the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was in a cell, only silence: because for the family members nor for having tried to kill the American soldiers who had gone to interrogate her and the attempted smuggling of chemicals on behalf of Al Qaeda were crimes.