More on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.

The "Lady Al Qaeda" suspect sat quietly Wednesday as an Afghani interpreter described her wild-eyed attempt to gun down a roomful of Americans with a stolen Army rifle.

Defendant Aafia Siddiqui, who was tossed out of court after an angry Tuesday outburst, said nothing as witness Ahmad Gul detailed the chaos inside an Afghan police station on July 18, 2008.

"She was using my body as a shield while bullets were going," said Gul, 27, a one-time interpreter for the Army Special Forces in Afghanistan.

Gul recalled that the MIT-educated neuroscientist was "mad, angry" as she leveled the M-4 rifle at the Americans and Afghan police inside the second-floor room.

The interpreter said he managed to disarm Siddiqui, 37, after she was shot in the abdomen.

The terror suspect grabbed the rifle after a Special Forces officer inexplicably left the weapon within her reach.

The same officer used his 9mm pistol to shoot Siddiqui after she fired two shots, prosecutors said. In the minutes before the shooting started, Gul said, there was a bit of chit-chat between the five Americans and the local cops in the room.

Two FBI agents, two Army officers and the Special Forces chief warrant officer were there when Siddiqui - arrested a day earlier - made her move.

Gul recalled Capt. Robert Snyder's surprised shout: "She's got the gun!"

Gul, standing just three feet from the rifle-wielding woman, said he lunged at her and started wrestling for the weapon. Siddiqui fired one shot before he reached the rifle, and a second after he shoved her into a wall, Gul said in the second day of trial testimony.

A chastened Siddiqui sat at the defense table throughout the morning, in contrast with her prior angry explosions.

She was removed from court after declaring her innocence Tuesday, and tossed last week after interrupting jury selection.

"Do you agree not to disrupt the proceeding and speak out of turn?" asked Judge Richard Berman.

"I understand English," she replied. Siddiqui is charged with attempted murder for the shootout in Afghanistan.

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