Feds: Al Qaeda Mata Hari Wanted To Poison Pres. Carter

August, 14, 2008 in War on Terror

By Richard Esposito and Brian Ross / ABC News
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Long before Aafia Siddique was arrested in Afghanistan last month, allegedly in possession of a list of New York targets and chem-bio weapons information, she had allegedly developed a plot, however improbable or amateurish, to kill Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush and to attack the White House. Siddique plotted to use weapons that included biological agents to contaminate former president Carter's water, according to multiple federal sources.

Alleged Al Qaeda 'Mata Hari' Aafia Siddique is an MIT graduate and received a PhD from Brandeis. Her lawyer says the government's case against Siddique is a lie.

Those allegations, some contained in the federal complaint filed on July 31st by the US Attorney in Manhattan, the details expanded on by sources spoken to by ABC News, paint Siddique, 36, as a committed Al Qaeda operative, and one whose capture could hold the key to identifying other operatives and supporters both in the US and overseas.

But her lawyer, activist attorney Elizabeth Fink, says the entire government case against Siddique is a lie.

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