The Journalist has been on ISI Pay Roll for years. My comments are inserted below.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Aafia Today, U.S. Citizens Tomorrow*
>
> By Yvonne Ridley
>
> *O*bfuscation is an awkward word but it essentially sums up the behavior of
> all of the Pakistani government ministers, diplomats, and politicians who
> have had a hand in the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
>
TURKMAN: But she has no evidence to prove this claim that any Pakistani had a hand in Aafia's arrest in Afghanistan.
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> Now they're scrambling over each others backs like a bucket of frogs clawing
> their way to the top in a bid to speak to the media to feign shock at the
> silly sentence dished out by New York judge Richard Berman a few days ago.
>
> And on top of all of this over-acting, that other major obfuscator, the
> United States, has said Pakistan will have to sign two international
> treaties dealing with the exchange of prisoners to enable the repatriation
> of Aafia.
>
TURKMAN: That's right, if US agrees to revoke her US Citizenship otherwise, even those Treaties won't do.
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> Poppycock!
>
> Why don't these spineless chumps in Islamabad grow a backbone and tell their
> gin-soaked counterparts in the U.S. State Department to get stuffed.
>
TURKMAN: Because Beggars do not talk like that. Pakistan has been living off Charity of US Aid since 1953 and Loans since 1955. Didn't your handler in ISI tell you this?
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> Exactly what difference would it make if Pakistan were a signatory to the
> Council of Europe Treaty and the OAS Treaty? Please don't tell me the U.S.
> administration would abide by these?
.
TURKMAN: You claim to be a Writer but what is that Question Mark doing at the end of above sentence then. Where did you learn to write?
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Of course they wouldn't. The USA has
> continually violated and ignored the Geneva Conventions and is still a
> serial offender since it hasn't closed down Guantanamo Bay and other secret
> detention centers.
>
TURKMAN: How come you never remembered a thing about Geneva Convention, when your Lovers, the Taliban were slashing throats of their POWs? Was that a part of Geneva Convention?
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> And in Aafia's case it has also thrown the Vienna Conventions out of the
> window.
>
TURKMAN: Don't give this B.S. I don't think, you know, what is Vienna Convention because it does not apply to this case.
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> The shameless, outgoing U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, lied to
> the world from her barbed wire bunker in Islamabad when she claimed Dr.
> Aafia Siddiqui was given full consular access at all times. I can prove
> Aafia wasn't.
>
TURKMAN: Where were you hiding, when she was on trial. Wouldn't it have been the best time to bring this up, Liar?
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> According to some new documentation I've seen, which includes log sheets
> collated by the FBI, I can prove that at no time from July 18, 2008, the day
> Aafia was shot by U.S. soldiers in Ghazni, Afghanistan, to August 5, 2008,
> when she was taken to court in New York, was she ever offered consular
> services. Nor was she told of her rights to have
> access to these services.
>
> In between all of this, let's remember she was on a life support machine in
> Bagram, under heavy sedation.
.
TURKMAN: When was she in Bagram, Liar? She was only on Life Support System after being shot and never after her life was saved by US Surgeons.
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OK, she might not have been alert enough to
> have her rights read to her, but that still did not prevent her from being
> interrogated by the FBI. And according to the recordings the agents made,
> never once did any of those agents inform
> Aafia of her rights.
.
TURKMAN: Wait a minute ...! She was a US Citizen, a Ph.D and had worked as an executive in USA for years and someone had to tell her rights? Are you out of your mind? She was not provided Consular? Who were her Lawyers then? Do you know the meaning of word 'Consular'?
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> And when she arrived in the United States, not only did Hossein Haqqani, the
> Pakistani ambassador to Washington, fail to do his job or demand that the
> U.S. allow him to do his job by providing consular services to Aafia, but
> U.S. officials again deliberately did not inform Aafia of her rights.
>
TURKMAN: Why do you have to lie so much?
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> Flouting the Vienna Conventions is a serious matter and the U.S. is guilty.
> So when the U.S. starts to tell Pakistan it needs to sign two international
> treaties, I say "pot, kettle and black"!
>
> The United States threw out the Vienna Conventions when dealing with Aafia
> -- and this single, reckless arrogant action alone has now opened the door
> for every country in the world to do the same to every U.S. citizen who
> falls into difficulty overseas.
>
TURKMAN: Why don't you tell your Bosses in ISI to sue USA then?
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> Now is the time for the United States to start leading by example and to
> show some humanity by releasing Dr. Aafia Siddiqui immediately. Only by
> righting the initial wrongs in the first place can the U.S. move forward
> from this disgraceful episode.
>
TURKMAN: Sure, sure. Aafia, who begged for Visa of Pakistan, got the visa, became US Citizen, got Charity to study free until she got her Ph. D., got $ 100,000 job but then to thank USA for all that generosity started donating her salary plus donations that she received from American Moslims to donate to Al Qaeda, divorced her husband because he would not join her to go to Afghanistan and kill American Soldiers, got married to an Al Qaeda Operative, tried to shoot her Interrogators etc. She did not do anything disgraceful.
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> The U.S. stands guilty of violating the Vienna Convention on Consular
> Relations by failing to afford a Pakistani citizen -- in this case Aafia --
> the right to consular access.
>
TURKMAN: How many more times you are going to repeat this just in this one page?
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> Another reason to declare her trial a mistrial.
>
> Judge Richard Berman is the one who should be charged. Ignorance of the law
> is no excuse Your Honor, and at the moment you stand guilty as a lawbreaker
> not a lawmaker for dragging Aafia through an illegal trial, the process of
> which was flawed from beginning to end. It all happened on Judge Berman's
> watch.
>
> The Pakistani government now needs to demand the repatriation of Aafia with
> immediate effect.
.
TURKMAN: Yeah and some repatriation for you too.
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The U.S. needs to shut up, back down, and show some
> humility by returning the Daughter of Pakistan.
>
TURKMAN: You need to shut up and stop working for ISI.
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> And with a bit of luck, innocent U.S. citizens travelling abroad will not
> get caught up in the fallout of this violation of international law and
> human rights.
> *Yvonne Ridley* is a patron of Cageprisoners, a human rights NGO which first
> brought up the plight of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in 2004.
>
> http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=227331a
>
TURKMAN: That's right. Pretending to be Innocent US Citizen, Al Qaeda Agent traveling to Pakistan to kill citizens of her own country must have this right.
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