It Begins: Terror Suspect To Boycott NYC Trial

I don't believe she was held in Guantanamo. However, she was named by KSM according to the Wiki. What a wonderful thing, an MIT education. Look at this as a preview of the sort of thing we can look forward to playing out, possibly for years, in NYC.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A scientist trained in the U.S. and suspected of being an al-Qaida operative has promised to boycott her January trial in New York.

Aafia Siddiqui (ah-FEE'-uh see-DEE'-kee) interrupted lawyers to announce in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday that she did not plan to participate in her trial.

Then, during a break, she told U.S. marshals she did not want to return to the courtroom when they led her out as she continued talking.

Siddiqui faces charges after U.S. authorities said she grabbed a gun and fired it at a police station in Afghanistan in July 2008. She was wounded in the struggle with American soldiers.

Siddiqui studied at MIT and Brandeis University before fleeing to her native Pakistan in 2003.

Comments

[Lala]

I picture a big problem with jury selection. There will have to be Muslims on the jury. Then what?
Another OJ trial?

[mark l.]

defense strategies?

call foreign witnesses. foreign witnesses that either can't or won't appear.
"your honor, I must ask for a delay."

the worst case scenario though...
how will a judge be able to tell a suspect, you don't have right to [specific] information?

endless delays. this thing could go on for over a decade.

[Lala]

Who will sit on a jury that long? They only pay about 20 or 40 dollars a day I think.

[JustOneMan]

The ways things are going and King Barry gets his way, 20 or 40 dollars a day will soon be the average middle class wage!

[Techie]

Who sits on the jury when the duty will earn you and your family a Fatwah?

[cindi]

LOL OneMan.

They are having a hard enough time getting people testify