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Terror Trial Suspect: Keep Jews Off The Jury

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A woman accused of trying to kill American soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan begged a Manhattan federal judge to give jurors genetic tests to make sure they aren't Jews. "If they have a Zionist or Israeli background...they are all mad at me," said Aafia Siddiqui. "I have a feeling everyone here is them — subject to genetic testing....They should be excluded if you want to be fair."

Siddiqui — a Brandeis and MIT-educated Pakistani — allegedly picked up an M-4 Army rifle and fired two shots at Americans who tried to question her in Afghanistan in July 2008. According to the Daily News, she shouted "Allah Akbar" and vowed to kill Americans before she was detained. Investigators reportedly found two pounds of poisonous sodium cyanide, notes and documents on how to build chemical and biological weapons, and lists of potential terror targets including the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Siddiqui allegedly stated she was "boycotting the trial" because "there are too many injustices." She also repeatedly refused to speak to her own lawyers and told Judge Richard Berman: "I don't trust you either." After she threw a handwritten note to prosecutors begging for time each day to pray, the judge ruled she could leave the courtroom at 3:30 pm for 15 minutes of prayer. He also ruled that jurors will not see evidence regarding the chemicals or the "mass-produced documents from 'how-to' terror manuals," and tossed evidence about her alleged Al Qaeda connections because it might cause bias. Siddiqui could still turn out having a courthouse reunion with her ex-husband and ex-uncle-in-law, terror suspects Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

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  • LB

    I hate to be the voice of reason here, And some people here may hate me for saying this . But The Arabs and Jews have been fighting each other for centuries . The only reason all these terrorist keep trying to bomb us to hell is because we protect, and shelter the Jews ! If this Country took a realistic stance and said "Look we understand our point of view , As well as the Arabs Views , But we want nothing to do with your Civil War "! "Keep that shit to yourselves over there "! It's painfully Acute that this woman is both very bright , as well as encourageably stupid ! It doesn't matter what college she went too . Her Assertion regarding the "jew free jury " was both tactfully enlightening, and Extremely Racist . But wasn't that the point ? In her mind the only way she can get off would be if there are no jews on the jury to convict her . Foolish Yes, Will it make a difference ? Nope She's still gonna burn, Just not for her attempt to kill the innocent . More like for Aspiring to comment the act through affiliation !

  • gawkthis

    she should also be charged with racial hate crimes for discriminating in open court against jew jurors.

  • endsim

    where can i get this genetic test to see if i have any jew blood in me?

  • wingedearth

    @jpeditor - I didn't say just pick any one thing off the list in isolation. All of these things have to be done together. The reason there is perpetual conflict is because there are no clear boundaries, so both sides keep crossing into each other's territory and claiming it as their own. That's why there need to be clear borders and separate nations. The ambiguous lines of separation lead to perpetual struggle. The Palestinian and Israelis can both be armed as much as they want, but without being able to cross borders, it won't matter. Because of the situation now, there is too much border crossing, and thus too much fighting.

    With my plan, border crossing is ended. There is no "pincer" on Israel any more than there was already, and Israel is much, much stronger than Gaza and the West Bank, so that's a non-issue.

  • jpeditor

    Your "ideas" are nothing but smoke to take land and security from Israel and give it to Arabs who you are either one of or they willl cut your head off when they are done with useful idiots like you.

    Take your deconstructed chomsky and finkelshit and GFY.

  • potsmoker

    its a well documented fact that israel employes commenters on blogs to shout pro israeli biblical crap.

    all your comments are derogatory.

    ill turn jewish when your god heals amputees.

    otherwise theres no god and the jewish people and the followers of ANY religion are idiots.

    are you paid for your comments or just another religious fanatic who uses blogs to shout your vile.

    im a vile human being, i apply my vile world view to everyone.

    the temple mount is not important to me and its no more important that a toilet, but id rather take a dump on the mount than use a toilet.



  • jpeditor

    "the temple mount is not important to me and its no more important that a toilet, but id rather take a dump on the mount than use a toilet."

    If Islam is beautiful, then everyday I make a masterpiece. Are you shocked with your mouth open, jiiahdi/commie?

    Hold the pose, I'll save one for your mouth. It won't be any different going in your mouth than what comes out of your mouth.

  • wingedearth

    How to make peace in Israel:

    1) Move Israeli settlers out of Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Jerusalem

    2) Release Palestinian hostages from Israeli prisons

    3) Recognize Gaza Strip and West Bank each as a separate, independent nation, and remove all Israeli forces from both areas.

    4) Establish a demilitarized zone and security wall along borders between Israel and the two new countries.

    5) If necessary, park UN peacekeepers on the borders between Israel and the two new countries, to stop invasion by either side.

    6) All three countries can then feel free to control and block immigration and travel into their countries however they want.

    7) Profit!

  • jpeditor

    How to make peace in Israel:

    1) Move Israeli settlers out of Gaza Strip,

    DONE THAT AND HAMAS LAUNCHED AND STILL LAUNCHES thousands of missiles into Israel, so onlyh a MORON would suggest that giving up further land in the West Bank, and Jerusalem would lead to peace.

    2) Release Palestinian hostages from Israeli prisons

    Yes, so they can continue to kill Jewish women and children - after all, the schmuckistinians are running out of their own women and children to blow up the Jews.

    3) Recognize Gaza Strip and West Bank each as a separate, independent nation, and remove all Israeli forces from both areas.

    Oh yeah, let them have a PINCER on Israel.

    4) Establish a demilitarized zone and security wall along borders between Israel and the two new countries.

    Obowmao is ARMING the palies you are so behind the times.

    5) If necessary, park UN peacekeepers on the borders between Israel and the two new countries, to stop ISRAEL FROM DEFENDING ITSELF, becausewe all know how effective the UN is...

    I have a question for you. How is that 1.5 million arabs are allowed to live in Israel but NO JEWS ARE ALLOWED TO LIVE IN THE PA TERRITORY?

    Here's a better idea - move the palis to JORDAN where they already have a country. And move that abomination off the Temple Mount.

  • potsmoker

    i guess rules only apply when talking about jews but doesnt apply when commenters talk about muslims.

    Bertram Russel was a communist turd like you who sucked muslim butt becuase the party told him to.

    No one GAVE "palestine" to the Jews, there was no "palestine" until the Romans expelled most (NOT ALL) of the Jews 600 years before MoHAMhead was a nightmare who should have dribbled down his father's and the camels leg.

    ISRAEL was a NATION WITH A CAPITAL millenia before Arabs stopped humping rocks and camels.



  • wingedearth

    Also, Palestinians aren't really Arabs. They're Palestinians (i.e. Philistines). There are lots of people who get called "Arabs" these days, and though they and the Hebrews were all once part of the same Semitic race, they're were different peoples. There's the Syrians, the Assyrians, the Egyptians, the Philistines, the Canaanites (i.e. Phoenicians), and others. They get lumped together as "Arabs" today because of their Muslim religion, but it's not quite accurate.

    Israel was a nation with a capital at one time, but it didn't last long. Mostly, the Israelites and Canaanites fought and took turns ruling each other (except during the reign of Solomon who temporarily reunited them) until the Babylonians and Assyrians conquered them all, only to themselves get conquered by the Aryan Medes and Persians.

    There are lots of peoples in the Near East and Middle East, and they've all been there for a long time.

  • jpeditor

    You;'re talking out of your rear end.

    http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/mythology.html

  • wingedearth

    Way to cite to a Zionist propaganda site to try to disprove history. Palestinians didn't just emerge from the ground in 1948. Read an online Bible, do a keyword search for the word "Philistine". That's them. They existed in the past. Here's more about them:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines

    The Palestinians are real Semites, so if you're opposed to their existence, you're an Antisemite.

  • wingedearth

    @potsmoker - That's not true. In ancient times, before there were Hebrews, the land that is now called Israel was a smattering of city-states, some owned by Canaanites, some by Syrians, some by Philistines (i.e. Palestinians). The Hebrews were formed later as an offshoot of Canaanites who invaded Egypt.

    Since the end of the Crusades, the land was called Palestine and owned by Turks, until after World War I when the Turks lost it and the Palestinians formed their own state. In 1948 Palestinians lost their state to Zionists backed by Britain, who had been resettled in Palestine after World War II (and some Jews who were resettled in Palestine by Nazi Germany, who worked with the Zionists toward creating a Jewish homeland).

  • potsmoker

    but inevitably, some posts on the site, and some threads in the bulletin board, will spiral off into negative sniping and flame wars. When this happens, we close the posts to further comments. If a commenter repeatedly abuses our comment policy, we delete all of their comments on every post on the site, and ban their IP address.

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  • potsmoker

    Commenting Abuse Report

    This comment by jpeditor should be checked out. http://gothamistllc.com/report/1/2445054

  • jpeditor

    whats the matter, you supporters of jihad get to whine and LIE and post propaganda about Jews "killing, stealing, smelling, oppressing, cheating, farting, BREATHING" but the minute someone else gets excited while telling the truth about your precious jihad supported by the left, you go running to mommy?

    Whats the matter, you haven't banned everyone but comie - jihadists from the internet? Want to shut down the radio as well?

    too bad you don't complain about this on gothamist - or maybe because you like it.

    http://gothamist.com/2010/01/14/quinn_seeks_help_for_poor_haitian_h.php#comment-2444802

  • jpeditor

    We can all thank the jihadi/commie plants here from distracting us from the real scandal.

    "According to the Daily News, she shouted "Allah Akbar" and vowed to kill Americans before she was detained. Investigators reportedly found two pounds of poisonous sodium cyanide, notes and documents on how to build chemical and biological weapons, and lists of potential terror targets including the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and the Brooklyn Bridge."

    [Judge Berman] also ruled that jurors will not see evidence regarding the chemicals or the "mass-produced documents from 'how-to' terror manuals," and tossed evidence about her alleged Al Qaeda connections because it might cause bias."

    Once again some PC moron is going soft on al queda scum who should be repeatedly water-boarded then wrapped in bacon and set on fire in Foley Square.

  • dgeee

    A zionazi with his Hitler side showing...

    ipeditor=HypocraticOath

  • S.K.

    Lady terrorist is simply protesting the evil Zionist occupation of... a juror's chair. Liberate that chair!

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