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Texas Attacker Sought Release of Al-Qaeda Operative Aafia Siddiqui
(AP-Washington Post) Eric Tucker - The man who held hostages inside a Texas synagogue on Saturday demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman serving an 86-year prison sentence in Texas for trying to shoot U.S. military officers in Afghanistan. The FBI and Justice Department described her as an "al-Qaeda operative and facilitator." American officials found in her possession handwritten notes that discussed the construction of "dirty bombs" and listed various locations in the U.S. that could be targeted in a "mass casualty attack." Inside an interview room at an Afghan police compound, she grabbed the M-4 rifle of a U.S. Army officer and opened fire on members of the U.S. team assigned to interrogate her.