Another MITer goes to the dark side

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

MIT Grad with Links to Al Qaeda Plotted to Kill Former U.S. Presidents,
Authorities Say

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404164,00.html

 

NEW YORK -  Long before Aafia Siddiqui allegedly tried to kill U.S. agents
and military officers in Afghanistan, the MIT-educated neuroscientist once
plotted to assassinate former presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and
Bill Clinton, government sources told FOXNews.com.

According to sources, Siddiqui was concocting a plan to use biological
agents to contaminate former president Carter's water.

"This was very serious, the investigations will go on for some time," a
government source told FOXNews.com.

Those allegations are part of a federal complaint filed on July 31 by the
U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia in Manhattan.

According to the complaint, Siddiqui, who attended MIT as an undergraduate
and earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Brandeis University, was carrying
detailed chemical and biological weapons information when she was arrested
in Afghanistan.

Siddiqui, 36, was stopped on July 17 outside a government building in
central Afghanistan's Ghanzi province by police who suspected that she might
be a suicide bomber, a source said, not realizing that she was being sought
by the FBI.

Authorities found recipes for radioactive, chemical and biological weapons
and explosives, documents detailing U.S. military assets, excerpts from the
Anarchists Arsenal, a bomb-making handbook, and one-gigabyte thumb drive,
now being analyzed by technology experts, inside Siddiqui's purse, according
to the criminal complaint and government sources.

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