Al-Qaeda MIT scientist in custody in Afghanistan!

Think for a minute about the fact that someone linked to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and other high-level jihadists was an MIT-trained neuroscientist. What is being done now to make sure that this sort of thing will not happen again? What can be done? Plenty -- but no one of influence is even discussing the issue.

"Pakistani scientist alive, in custody: FBI linked her to Al Qaeda in Hub," by Farah Stockman for the Boston Globe, August 3 (thanks to Miss Kelly):

WASHINGTON - Five years after her disappearance, an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist accused of belonging to an Al Qaeda cell based in Boston, is alive and in custody in Afghanistan, her family's attorney said yesterday.

"It has been confirmed by the FBI that Aafia Siddiqui is alive," said Elaine Whitfield Sharp, a lawyer for Siddiqui's family, who said she spoke to an FBI official on Thursday. "She is injured but alive, and she is in Afghanistan."

The news sheds some light on one of the most intriguing local mysteries in the war on terrorism. ...