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August 5th, 2008
Posted: 07:24 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNN) — A lawyer for a Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. officers while in Afghan custody disputed federal charges that her client shot at American troops and FBI agents. “It is all fiction,” said Elizabeth Fink, one of the attorneys for Aafia Siddiqui, a woman who has been sought by the FBI for several years over her suspected ties to al Qaeda. “How did a woman who is so tiny engage in armed conflict with six trained men?” Authorities say that on July 18, Siddiqui shot at two FBI special agents, a U.S. Army warrant officer, an Army captain and military interpreters who unknowingly entered a room where she was being held unsecured in Afghanistan. Siddiqui fired two rifle shots at the Americans with an officer’s rifle, but hit no one, officials said. The day before the shootings, Afghan police had arrested Siddiqui outside the Ghazni governor’s compound after finding bomb-making instructions, excerpts from the “Anarchist’s Arsenal,” papers with descriptions of U.S. landmarks and substances sealed in bottles and glass jars, U.S. officials said Monday. |
 
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