06 December 2010 El-Hajj Mauri' Saalakhan Assalaamu Alaikum (Greetings of
Peace): "Plausible Denial" is one of the
oldest tricks in the government playbook, and that is
precisely what we are getting in the WikiLeaks release
on
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. (see Guardian
report below) While U.S. "diplomats" may or may
not have been aware of Aafia's whereabouts, her
captors, which included American agents, knew
precisely where she was! Anyone who objectively
connects the dots of what is
known will
easily be able to see this for themselves. The U.S. embassy reportedly wrote
on July 31, 2008, "Bagram
officials have assured us that they have not been
holding Siddiqui for the last four years, as has been
alleged." Well this is precisely what
Bagram and Pentagon "officials" said to the British
investigative journalist Yvonne
Ridley in 2008. They initially
denied that any
woman was being held at Bagram. They were later
forced to retract that lie, only to compound it with
another: There was one
woman, but it wasn't
Aafia Siddiqui. What do we know? According to
Yvonne Ridley and Moazzam Beg (a former unjustly
held "war on terrorism" detainee), we know that four
men escaped from Bagram in 2008, and in recounting
their observations and experiences shared information
about a young Pakistani woman who could only be
identified by her number "650." We know that this
woman suffered physical abuse and torture; and that
she was also tortured mentally and emotionally (as
only a mother could be) by having her children torn
away from her, and not knowing where they were.
What we know is that after a
former British detainee, Binyan Mohamed, was released
from his secret detention and allowed to return home,
he positively identified Aafia Siddiqui, from a
photograph, as the woman he SAW WITH HIS OWN EYES at
Bagram.
What we know is that a request was made,
and a determination given, that during the trial of
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui at a federal courthouse in New York
City, those missing five years in Aafia's life were
officially ordered to be "off limits." The only time
we got a partial glimpse into those missing years was
when Aafia took the stand herself, and, over
the repeated objections of government prosecutors,
pulled back the curtain just a little! Why did they
object? Because the government has a lot to hide! And finally, we also
know that in
March 2003 Pakistani officials initially admitted to
capturing Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and handing her over to
the Americans; only to later backtrack on that
admission - no doubt, after realizing how much of a
political hot potatoe it might become in the future. While the trial has now ended,
and Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has been safely put away,
efforts are still being made to keep this long
suffering woman in complete and total isolation. She
has yet to receive a visit from her own blood brother,
Muhammad Siddiqui, after numerous attempts. Why?
Because while theoretically he's on an
approved list
for visitation, "special
rules" apply to his sister! (Because
the oppressors still feel the need to cover their
asses.) I believe it was
Winston Churchill
who once said: "During
times of war, the truth is so precious it must be
attended by a bodyguard of lies." What we
are seeing in the WikiLeaks release on Dr. Aafia
Siddiqui, is nothing more that a 21st century
manifestation of that rather dubious principle,
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