For John, BLUF: The ISIL problem is not just isolated to Syria and Iraq. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Here is an interesting article from yesterday's edition of The Washington Post, about ISIL wanting US to release a prisoner from a Federal Prison. It isn't like we are threatening to behead this woman, Aafia Siddiqui. We just put her away for over eighty years for trying to kill American law enforcement personnel.♠
Here is the headline: ‘Lady al-Qaeda’: The American-educated PhD the Islamic State desperately wants freed. From the article,
They want her back so badly, jihadists said they would have traded James Foley for Siddiqui, who’s in U.S. prison. They said they would have traded Bowe Bergdahl for her. They said they would trade a 26-year-old American woman, kidnapped one year ago, for her.Regards — Cliff
♠ "U.S. officers were invited to question her and were ushered into a room without being told by their Afghan hosts that Siddiqui was “unsecured” behind a curtain that divided the room, according to an FBI criminal complaint. She grabbed an Army officer’s M-4 rifle that was on the floor next to the curtain and screamed, “Allah Akbar!” and, in English, “Get the f— out of here!” the complaint said. She opened fire, but missed the officers, who returned fire and hit her twice in the abdomen."
Bad marksmanship on the part of the officers. They need much more time on the firing range.
ReplyDeleteDo not trade this woman back under any circumstances is my opinion. They want her for what they believe she may know, which ISIS thinks they can use to their advantage. I think she is safer in prison than she would be over there, despite her terrorist image. I believe she is emotionally unstable despite her education.
ReplyDeleteA PhD from MIT in neuroscience might be familiar with how various types of magnetic sound waves can be perceived by an individual to the possible detriment of said individual's mental cognition and/or emotional stability. Moreover, she might know how to build these types of magnetic sound machines since they are widely used in magnetic resonance studies.