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Prosecutor: No Sign Al Qaeda Suspect Was Tortured

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Nov 19, 2008 9:30 am US/Pacific

Prosecutor: No Sign Al Qaeda Suspect Was Tortured

NEW YORK (AP) ― A prosecutor says the U.S. government has found no evidence that a Pakistani woman accused of trying to kill a U.S. soldier and FBI agents was abducted or tortured in the five years before her arrest.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Raskin says multiple U.S. agencies had searched for evidence to support reports that Aafia Siddiqui was detained in 2003, but found none.

Raskin spoke at a hearing Wednesday to discuss a psychologist's conclusion that Siddiqui is mentally unfit for trial. The federal government accused Siddiqui of trying to shoot U.S. authorities following her July arrest in Afghanistan.

Defense lawyer Elizabeth Fink says she believes Siddiqui was seized by Pakistani intelligence authorities in 2003.

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