Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody in 2008 in Ghazi, Afghanistan, where she shot at visiting FBI and Army personnel. She was extradited to the U.S. and charged with assault and attempted murder of U.S. nationals in Afghanistan, and later sentenced to 86 years in prison.
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Islamic Revolutionar…
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is part of Iran’s armed forces, separate from the traditional military but complementary to it. The group is tasked with defending Iran’s revolutionary regime, which took power in 1979, and answers... Read more
Kata’ib Hezbollah
Kata’ib Hezbollah (also Kata’ib Hizballah) is an Iraqi Shia militant group that seeks to institute an Iran-aligned government in Iraq, remove U.S. and coalition forces from the country and further Iranian interests in the region. KH has... Read more
