Aafia has attracted a lot of attention from unsavoury persons but then that was the torturer's intent, and they have a lot of power because they can hurt people who can't stop them. When will America rise?

The woman dubbed "Lady Al Qaeda" was booted from her trial again Friday after blurting out that her lawyers won't let her testify.

"If you follow the mercy of mankind...they want to take away my right to testify. I've asked for it," Aafia Siddiqui told spectators during a break in the case. Please, I know you'll take me out," she told U.S. marshals as they motioned to move her to a holding cell outside the Manhattan courtroom.

"I am not an enemy. I didn't shoot anyone. I can bring peace with Afghanistan and the Taliban in one day, God willing," she said.

The American-trained Pakistani neuroscientist - charged with attempted murder for shooting at Americans in Afghanistan - also demanded to testify in a similar outburst Wednesday.

Judge Richard Berman told her she had a right, but no obligation, to testify - and warned he wouldn't put up with any more courtroom antics.

She stayed quiet for a day and a half. Siddiqui has repeatedly vowed to boycott her trial and says she does not trust her defense team.

Asked if Siddiqui would be allowed to take the stand in her own defense, lawyer Dawn Cardi was non-commital.

"It remains to be seen," she said.

Siddiqui is accused of snatching a M-4 Army rifle and firing two rounds at a team of Americans who tried to question her in Afghanistan on July 18, 2008.

She was under arrest at the time after being caught by Afghan cops with two pounds of poisonous chemicals, handwritten bioweapon-making documents, and a list of targets including the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Her defense team says no fingerprints were on the rifle and no bullets or fragments were found at the scene.

An FBI ballistics expert testified Friday that M-4 rifle shots travel at 2,700 feet per second and could have disintegrated.



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