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Updated: September 29, 2012 6:18AM
JOLIET — At least one gunshot was fired Monday afternoon during a confrontation outside Joliet Central High School, school authorities reported.
The Joliet Police Department immediately responded, and the school was placed on lockdown, the school said Monday evening. The incident began in the late afternoon at Central, 201 E. Jefferson St.
"At 4:05 p.m. today, a Joliet Central High School staff member reported hearing gunfire outside the Central Campus," school officials said.
"The perimeter of Joliet Central High School was secured, all JTHS procedures were followed, and athletes and students were placed in safe locations."
"At 4:40 p.m., the lockdown at Joliet Central High School ended, and students were released safely. No one was injured or hurt."
The school was able to confirm that a confrontation did occur outside of the Central building, and that at least one gunshot was fired.
"Joliet Township High School continues to cooperate with the Joliet Police Department with this ongoing investigation," the school said.
On Tuesday, there will be an increased police presence in and around the Central Campus. Metal detecting will occur on Tuesday morning as students enter the building, and Central will continue to practice all safety procedures to ensure a safe learning environment, the district said.


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Play Time! Vago, Eise Parks Get Spray Pad Playgrounds
Both are in construction phase. The original budgeted amount for the project was $443,875. Council approved increasing the budget by $14,000 in order to continue the project.
There have been a few bumps and hurdles along the way, but it appears the spray grounds at Vago and Eise parks will be open towards the middle of summer. That's according to a representative with Westport Pools. He spoke with the Maryland Heights City Council about updates on the project timeline at Thursday's city council meeting. The council approved a $14,000 increase to the park fund for the project in an effort to comply with a few guidelines from the county health department, Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The parks and recreation, and public works departments solicited bids for the design and construction of the spray pads, and found out during the bid process, additional items were …
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Police Blotter: Two Robberies in One Day
The following information was supplied by the Lakewood Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Two Robberies in One Day
Two robberies were reported in Lakewood on Wednesday.
In the first incident, a woman told police she was robbed behind John's Diner on Detroit Avenue at around 1 a.m.
She said that the man — described as a white male in his mid-twenties, wearing a dark hoodie — knocked her down and took her purse. She didn't say whether he had a weapon. She said when she got off the bus, the man told her he had been stabbed and needed help.
That's when he robbed her.
The woman returned from work later in the day and found her purse on the front porch. The report didn't say whether her items had been taken.
The other robbery took place at the Star Mart on Madison Avenue at around 7:45 p.m. A man told police that two white males — between the ages of 17 to 19 — wearing sweatshirts and ski masks robbed him at gunpoint.
Just last week, a woman was robbed at gunpoint on Ramona Avenue as she was walking to work.
Fight outside the fire station
Two men were charged with disorderly conduct after they were fighting outside of Fire Station No. 2 on Detroit Avenue at around 2:30 a.m. Jan. 13.
Man and woman each faces drug charges
A man was charged with driving under suspension and drug paraphernalia and a woman was charged with drug abuse following a traffic stop in the 14400 block of Madison Avenue at around 2 a.m. Jan. 14.
Vandalism by spray-paint
A van was reported spray-painted at the Westwood Dry Cleaners around 5 p.m. Jan. 14.
Man caught with his pants down
A man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after he passed out with his pants down at the bus stop in front of the YMCA at around 3:30 a.m. Jan. 15.
Dogs reported missing
A resident in the 17000 block of Hilliard Road reported his two dogs — black lab mix, named Bunny, and a black and white mutt, named Winston — were missing at around 8 p.m. Jan. 15.
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12:06 pm on Friday, January 20, 2012
What a great place Lakewood has turned up to be!
Have lived in Lakewood for over 15 years. If I could sell my home I would leave NOW!
Thank you Lakewood for Section 8, high property taxes and such nice landlords!
Cannot wait to get out. Lakewood resident.
8:20 pm on Saturday, January 21, 2012
Yeah...because everyone on Section 8 is a criminal. Let me guess, you post on cleveland.bomb, too?
Have fun in Westlake, Avon, Strongsville, North Ridgeville, Brunstucky, etc with the rest of the intolerant, racist, homophobic, anti-intellectual bigots.
Deborah Maher
11:26 am on Monday, January 30, 2012
Nicole, do you actually believe that there is a place on earth that you can escape to that doesn't have crime? And why would you believe that the muggers/robbers came from a local Lakewood neighborhood anyway? Anyone can come in from another city and commit crimes here. It has nothing to do with Section 8 properties in Lakewood. Most likely those people are too busy working their asses off at multiple low-paying jobs and trying to feed their families. Notice the ages of these criminals. In the report it said one looked about mid-twenty and the other two were between 17 and 19. These are foolish young men who don't work. That's true of most criminals. There's no where you can go to escape foolish (and dangerous) young people who don't want to work for a living. It can happen anywhere.
Tim Torrence
12:38 pm on Friday, February 17, 2012
This is how you choose to point out intolerance and ignorance? By making an intolerant and ignorant statement? Really? You told her didn't you?
8:20 pm on Saturday, January 21, 2012
Yeah...because everyone on Section 8 is a criminal. Let me guess, you post on cleveland.bomb, too?
Have fun in Westlake, Avon, Strongsville, North Ridgeville, Brunstucky, etc with the rest of the intolerant, racist, homophobic, anti-intellectual bigots.
Colin McEwen
12:40 pm on Friday, January 20, 2012
Nicole, we shouldn't be so quick to panic. Any crime is alarming, but police stress that the number of robberies in the city actually decreased in 2011 from 2010 — by more than 15.


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Noah, Bulls Too Much as Nets Lose Game 7
It was a nice second half effort, but making a 17-point lead disappear in 24 minutes is nearly impossible. Nets season ends as the Bulls beat them in Game 7, 99-93.
It was a nice second half effort, but making a 17-point lead disappear in 24 minutes is nearly impossible. Nets season ends as the Bulls beat them in Game 7, 99-93.
The Bulls injury report is now looking like a CDC warning. Not only are Derrick Rose (knee still), Kirk Hinrich (calf) and Yoakim Noah (plantar fasciitis) still hurting, Luol Deng is so sick he may not travel to Brooklyn for Game 7. He's that ill.
In an interview with WCBS Radio, Brett Yormark put the Nets Game 7 Saturday in the context of the team's long journey to Brooklyn and how it's a "pretty big moment for us."
It wasn't easy -- or as easy as it should have been -- but the Nets were able to pull off Game 6 on the road and force a Game 7. Both teams were banged up, but the Bulls were without a few of their key players. Still, nothing is easy in Chicago.
In a must-win Game 5, the Nets beat the Chicago Bulls, 110-91. Now, they move on to Chicago where they Nets once again need to win in order to extend their season.
The Nets let Nate Robinson and the Chicago Bulls get back into this game late in the fourth, and after three overtimes lost to the Bulls, 142-134. They now trail 3-1 in the series.
Before the playoffs, John Schuhmann, the deep stats and power rankings guy at NBA.com, offered some thoughts on the Nets. On Thursday night, Schuhmann used Twitter to let loose on some of the same issues he highlighted in his NBA.com piece.
It was an ugly offensive performance by the Nets, coupled by a fantastic defensive and coaching performance by the Bulls, that led to Chicago taking Game 3, 79-76.
It wasn't a pretty performance for the Brooklyn Nets who failed to build off their Game One romp from Saturday night. They fell to the Bulls 90-82, who came into Brooklyn and evened the series 1-1. Game 3 is Thursday night in Chicago.
Before Friday's game, Dave D'Alessandro, late of the Nets beat but always an interesting read, wrote about the job P.J. Carlesimo has done as interim coach, a job that he's done with little fanfare and less job security.
Lost in the coverage of Saturday's game was a realization that in the city that never sleeps (on basketball), the Nets looked as good or better than the Knicks did, beating the Celtics. And there's a lot to Brooklyn's rise.
On the backs of Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and, yes, Gerald Wallace, the Nets simply blew out the Chicago Bulls in Game One of their first-round playoffs series. They led by 20-plus points for most of the game, finishing with a 106-89 victory.
Adm Silver says that the league would divide its events between the two sites. The All-Star game is played on Sunday night, while the Rookie Challenge is played on Friday and the slam dunk and 3-point contests are on Saturday.
Jerry Stackhouse had a pretty good April. In six games, he's averaging 7.0 points, shooting 50 percent from deep and 45.5 percent overall, in 19.2 minutes. On April 12, vs. Indiana, he showed he still has some skills left, scoring 13 in 24 minutes.
It was a fairly meaningless game, as a win or loss wouldn't change anything for the Nets playoffs seeding, but the importance of getting into a rhythm and staying healthy was key. Nets beat the Pistons, 103-99. Now, they await the Bulls.
The Nets have invested a lot in Tyshawn Taylor and Toko Shengelia, more than most teams have on second round picks. Monday night, it looked like it would pay off as the two combined for 25 points and hit big shots at the end of the big win.
No Deron Williams, Brook Lopez or Joe Johnson, but it was Toko Shengelia, Andray Blatche, Mirza Teletovic and the Nets' reserves who pulled away with a victory over the Wizards.
The Nets lost in Toronto, 93-87, losing any hope of getting the 3rd seed in the East and any chance of winning 50 games in their first season in Brooklyn. The Nets are now locked into the 4th seed, awaiting their first-round opponent.
Reggie Evans always had a love-hate relationship with fans. Those who he played for loved him. Those who he played against hated him. Evans has become something he'd never become in Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Toronto or even LA. Reggie is cool!
How big was the win over the Pacers Friday night? We present, with a hat tip to the Nets PR staff, the numbers ... and history. The Nets now have won four straight, including their last two over playoff teams. But it's bigger than that.
The Nets were hoping to keep the 3rd seed alive, going into Indiana with the hopes of beating the Pacers. In the end, Brooklyn won, 117-109.
Kris Joseph's 10-day contract with the Nets expires at midnight and Joseph tells Tim Bontemps that he hasn't heard yet what the Nets are thinking.. But P.J. Carlesimo tells Bontemps he likes what he sees.
Gerald Wallace left the game with a heel contusion, but the Celtics never closed any ground as the Nets put them away.
It was all Brook Lopez and Reggie Evans, as the Nets blew out the Philadelphia 76ers at home, .....
It was a bit too close for comfort, as the NBA's worst team came into Brooklyn and almost beat the Nets. Thankfully, Brooklyn was able to pull away late on the backs of Deron Williams and Reggie Evans. Nets win, 105-96.
Carlos Boozer couldn't be stopped, and the Bulls executed down the stretch to beat the Nets by two.


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Vote now in our knockout poll: who was the CGU Unsung Hero in round six of the AFL season?
- May 07, 2012
Vote now in our knockout poll: We want to know who was the CGU Unsung Hero in the sixth round of the AFL action?
Each week we will find five players who did their job without fuss and helped their team in their bid for victory.
The knockout poll will open on Monday and the winning player will be revealed on Tuesday night on AFL Insider on FOX FOOTY at 8.30pm (EST) with Alastair Lynch and Jason Dunstall.
Vote now and have your say by leaving a comment below.
Ben Sinclair (Collingwood)
The Magpies might have found one here. He's not much to look at but the competitive Sinclair has become a regular of Nathan Buckley's side in recent weeks. Works hard and kicked a couple of crucial goals against the Bulldogs.
Ben Howlett (Essendon)
Howlett is a busy footballer who makes things happen when the footy gets in his hands. His 19 touches in the big win over Brisbane were accompanied by eight tackles. The coaches love his hard yards.
Ian Callinan (Adelaide Crows)
It's incredible that he's ever in the AFL, let alone an Unsung Hero nominee. The 29-year-old played his eighth game on Saturday night and looked like he was born to be in the big league. Kicked three goals and just brings energy.
Mitch Duncan (Geelong)
The 20-year-old has a premiership medallion already but it's only now that he's starting to show people why the Cats rate him so highly. He is winning his own footy and using it well - had 31 touches against the Demons.
Matt de Boer (Fremantle)
The Dockers found de Boer in the 2009 rookie draft when everybody overlooked him. Hard to believe another club didn't need the grunt and mongrel he brings. That's not to say he's not effective with the footy, either. Kicked a crucial goal late against the Suns.
Results: CGU Unsung Hero: Round 6
This poll was closed on 2012-05-08 13:15:00
Who was the CGU Unsung Hero for round six?
- Ben Sinclair 42.02% (2164 votes)
- Ben Howlett 1.51% (78 votes)
- 12.19% (628 votes)
- Mitch Duncan 2.93% (151 votes)
- Matt De Boer 41.34% (2129 votes)
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JC of Perth says May 07, 2012 at 12:08 PM
As a Fremantle supporter Matt De Boer is one of my favourite players for the club. He isn't to skillful with the ball but he never makes large mistakes being very dependable and the guy is made of iron.
Margaret Rafanelli of adelaide says May 07, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Ian Callinan is my unsung hero he has overcome adversity and a bad injusry last year and has made a lot of sacrifices to reach his dream MR adelaide
Kingy of Perth says May 07, 2012 at 2:54 PM
De Boer reminds me of Shauny Mac.. amazing courage and strength for the contest, yet not the best disposals.. though I think his goal kicking has improved as well. Need guys with that heart and spirit for the club.
Go tiges says May 07, 2012 at 4:17 PM
What about Dylan Grimes from Richmond, has looked very capable of not only limiting key forwards, but providing run and good ball use out of defence. May not get recognition but is becoming a very handy footballer
wishbone of tbs says May 07, 2012 at 5:24 PM
has scott selwood been nominated yet ??
john dickson of Hobart says May 07, 2012 at 7:54 PM
go the wingnut, about time you were recognised the little body big heart shines through, well done Ian
russell bottroff of elizabeth says May 07, 2012 at 7:55 PM
ian callian by a mile
Sam Voysey of Hallett Cove says May 07, 2012 at 8:37 PM
Ian Callinan on the left or right & the poise for a bloke of 29 having played less than 10 games.
Conor of Melbourne says May 07, 2012 at 8:57 PM
Ben Sinclair has stepped up in the absence of Andrew Krakouer and Brent Macaffer, he's kicked goals, laid smothers, laid tackles and is bloody tough too, underrated at Collingwood and the Competition, and that's why he's my unsung hero
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How does Shane Tuck not get a mention? In a midfield where everyone talks about Cotchin, Martin, Deledio and sometimes Foley, Grigg and Houli, Tuck continues to shine every week. 28 disposals, a heap of contested ball, 5 Tackles. Talk about unsung heros - this one even flew under your radar...
Carol-anne Eaton of Hobart says May 07, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Definitely Ian Callinan, what a story he has and living / playing the dream. Earns every minute of it! Souch respect for this young man... Plays his heart out every single week because it means that much!
Matthew Jones of Australia says May 08, 2012 at 7:24 AM
Benny Howlett is even underrated in an Unsung Heroes comp. The man is a tackling machine. 2nd in the comp atm for tackles
IAN CALLINAN SNR of Rokeby Tasmania says May 08, 2012 at 9:00 AM
I might be biased but Ian Callinan has been over looked by so many teams but never gave up he always believed he could do it as did most of the state of Tasmania he has made his family ,state and now his team proud a true unsung hero
Waz of Werribee says May 08, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Ben Sinclair for me. Been watching him closely this season, and was worried about his disposal but certainly not his effort. All his efforts started to pay off on the weekend against the Bulldogs playing an important in crutial plays. He seems to be everywhere!
McDonald Family of Benalla says May 08, 2012 at 7:27 PM
Great game Ben - this was after two or three really good games where you were just improving game by game - Great perseverance - GO PIES
Carl Tung of mt martha says May 08, 2012 at 7:53 PM
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ABOUT TOWN: A Salute to Stoughton's Veterans - Parade Details, Reflagging Ceremony (And More...)
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VETERANS DAY PARADE: The Annual Stoughton Veterans Day Parade will begin at 10 a.m. sharp from VFW Post 1645 on Washington Street on Sunday, Nov. 11. The parade will proceed through the square to the Stoughton Town Hall via Washington, School and Pearl Streets for a ceremony and wreath laying at the Memorial Bell. The parade will then reform on Pearl Street and proceed back through the square to Faxon Veterans Memorial Park (across from the library near the Charles Large Gazebo) for two ceremonies at the two memorials there. The parade will then proceed down Walnut Street to Washington Street and go back to the VFW for a collation. The entire parade will be approximately one and one-half hours. Come and watch the wonderful results of the …
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The list measured community banks with less than $500 million in assets. For years, the vast majority of the nation's banks fell into that category, but that has started to change since the financial crisis of 2008. Bank failures and mergers, coupled with changing regulatory conditions and increasing costs, have forced small banks to spend more and save more just to keep up.
Florida has been one of the hardest hit by the effects of the real estate market and the banking industry. Five banks in Northeast Florida that failed since the recession started — First Federal Bank of North Florida based in Palatka that had $90.5 million in assets failed in April 2010, Haven Trust Bank Florida based in Ponte Vedra that had $148.6 million in assets failed in September 2010, First Bank of Jacksonville that had $81 million in assets failed in October 2010, First Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. of Jacksonville that had $377.9 million failed in January 2012 and Putnam State Bank based in Palatka that had $169.5 million in assets failed in June 2012.
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Durban City Centre brought to a halt at FREE AAFIA PROTEST
25 March 2013
South Africans flocked on Friday 22nd March to the United States Consulate, situated in the heart of the city centre in Durban, in solidarity with the Global Free Aafia Movements to protest on the tenth anniversary of the abduction of Dr. Siddiqui and her three children in Karachi, Pakistan. The picket drew huge public interest as thousands of motorists and pedestrians of all races witnessing the event. The audience was extremely vocal and passionate chants of "Free Free Aafia", echoed through one of the busiest streets in the city. The protesters demanded for an end to the oppression and injustices against Dr Aafia Siddiqui and demanded her repatriation to Pakistan.
The protest action which was held under banner of the "Free Aafia Foundation", was supported by a number of organisations and human rights activists. The picket began with a "flash mob" live demonstration, enacting the kidnapping of a screaming Aafia in the streets of Karachi, being dragged away from her children and brutally beaten and tortured. Shabnam Mohammed, an activist who played the part of Aafia was thrown into a mock cell. With deafening screams, she pleaded for help and repeatedly cried out about the whereabouts of her children.
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Edhi Appeals Zardari, Obama for Aafia's Release
13 March, 2013 KARACHI - Human rights activist Abdul Sattar Edhi here Tuesday visited the "10 years-10 days" camp at Karachi Press Club (KPC) in connection to raise the issue of Dr Aafia Siddiqui on the completion of her first 10 years in the American imprisonment.
Writing comments in the guest book on the occasion, he said: "I appeal to the US government to release Dr Aafia on humanitarian grounds." He said he hoped that the American government would consider his appeal. He said if any imprisonment is necessary he should be put in jail instead of Dr Aafia.
On the occasion, Dr Azra and other workers of Aafia Movement welcomed Edhi.
Dr Azra told him that a Christian student Fahar Amjad had staged a hunger strike camp and demanded of the US President Obama to release Dr Aafia as the Christmas gift and appealed him to put him in jail in place of Aafia.
On the occasion, Abdul Sattar Edhi appealed to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and US President Obama to release Aafia. He said when the children of the nation show such a commitment, the future of the nation would be bright. He hoped that Dr Aafia would soon return home.
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Jan 19, 2013
THE only thing that surprised me when I heard that the Algerian kidnappers had called for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui was that it hadn't happened sooner.
Don't get me wrong, as a former hostage myself, there is no way I condone the actions of what has unfolded in a remote corner of the Algerian desert.
And my heart goes out to the families of those who have lost loved ones in the unfolding drama at the In Amenas gas plant siege said to have been masterminded by Mohktar Belmokhtar. The infamous one-eyed Algerian militant apparently with ties to al Qaida, has claimed responsibility for launching Wednesday's attack.
It also goes without saying there is no way the kidnappers, whether politically or criminally motivated, can be justified in their actions.
But an injustice is an injustice and as the only western journalist to have specifically gone to Afghanistan to investigate the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, I have to say her plight has become a cause célèbre around the Muslim world.
And I have an uncomfortable feeling that more and more westerners will be kidnapped as their captors demand the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a woman I once called the most wronged in the world.
So just who is Dr Aafia Siddiqui and why is a group of North Africans calling for her release?
Well it's very easy to get emotional about a wronged Muslim woman caught up in the War on Terror but I am not basing my case on emotion just some simple cold, hard facts and forensic evidence ... or lack of it, but more of that and her bizarre story later.
Her family will certainly not be pleased that a group of Algerian terrorists have called for her release because it will give a perception in some quarters that Dr Aafia must be an Islamic extremist. It's a narrative pushed by US intelligence although it has to be said in her trial the opening statement of the prosecutor stated quite clearly that she was not al-Qaida nor a terrorist sympathiser.
The case of the mother-of-three is well known in every household in Pakistan from the most religious to the most secular ... the majority of which have been demanding her repatriation for years. Now she is known as the Daughter of the Nation although her story has travelled well beyond Pakistan's borders.
Thousands of Muslim children have been named after her because of all that she has come to symbolise. Everything that she represents stems from the injustices created by America's War on Terror ... the kidnaps, renditions, torture, rape and waterboarding.
The brilliant academic, a neuro scientist, educated in top US universities, is tonight languishing in a Texan jail serving an 86 year sentence after being found guilty of trying to kill American soldiers.
The fact they shot her at close range and nearly killed her is often overlooked.
To their eternal shame, the US soldiers serving in Afghanistan claimed in court under oath that the diminutive, fragile academic leapt at them from behind a prison cell curtain, snatching one of their guns to shoot and kill them. It was a fabricated story that any defence lawyer worth his or her salt would have ripped apart at the seams.
The scenario painted in court was incredulous and more importantly, the evidence non existent – no gunshot residue on her hands or clothes, no bullets from the discharged gun, no fingerprints belonging to Dr Aafia on the gun ... other vital evidence removed by US military from the scene went missing before the trial. Come on, we've all seen episodes of CSI – the science doesn't lie.
After being patched up in a medical wing in Bagram, she was then renditioned to America to stand trial for an alleged crime committed in Afghanistan. Flouting the Vienna and Geneva Conventions, she wasn't given consular access until the day she made her first court appearance.
The trial was held in New York, a stone's throw from where the Twin Towers once stood making it impossible not to invoke the memories of that horrific day on September 11 which for some forever turned Muslims into Public Enemy Number One.
A lack lustre legal team forced on Dr Aafia by the US authorities failed to sway the jury of her innocence, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that she could not have snatched a soldier's gun let alone pull the trigger.
I went into the cell in Ghazni a few weeks after the shooting in July 2008 and discovered that the soldiers had panicked and sprayed the room with bullets as they struggled to flee. The evidence is there on film shot during my visit and handed over to the defence team.
The prosecutors could not believe a western journalist had travelled to this part of Afghanistan and obtained compelling witness and visual evidence. Soon after that vital forensic evidence including spent bullets that had been gouged out of a wall in the cell, went missing.
Seeing Dr Aafia emerge unshackled and unhooded from behind a curtain caused blind panic among the young soldiers who had been briefed by the FBI they were going to arrest one of the most dangerous women in the world.
I interviewed eyewitnesses, senior Afghan police officers and one after another told me their acount of what happened. Yet the only Afghan brought to court to give testimony against her was the FBI's translator who now has a green card and lives in New York with his family.
What the jury was not told is that Dr Aafia, and her three children, all aged under five at the time, had been kidnapped from a street near their home in Karachi and disappeared from 2003.
The FBI put out a story at the time that she had in fact gone on a jihad to Afghanistan – it was a ludicrous tale without foundation and, as every mother of young children knows, a journey to the local corner shop with toddlers is a monumental challenge so heading off to fight in Afghanistan with a pram, pushchair and toddler in hand is simply inconceivable. The FBI narrative was destroyed by Boston-based Elaine Whitfield Sharp, a lawyer hired by the Siddiqui family when Dr Aafia first disappeared.
The missing years of the academic's life reveal a story which is now known to virtually everyone in the Muslim world where she is widely regarded as a victim of George W Bush's War on Terror.
As she tried to tell the jury how she was held in secret prisons, with no legal representation, cut off from the outside world since 2003 where brutal interrogation techniques were used to break her down, she was silenced by the judge who said he was only interested in the cell shooting incident.
Judge Richard Berman, a modest little man with much to be modest about, insisted he was not interested in the missing years; it had no relevance to the case he insisted.
She testified that after completing her doctorate studies she taught in a school, and that her interest was in cultivating the capabilities of dyslexic and other special needs children. She emerged as a humanity-loving nurturer and educator, the gentle yet resolute seeker for truth and justice.
As the evidence continued we learned that she didn't know where her three children were – it was sensational content for those who knew the real story. She talked of her dread and fear of being handed back to the Americans when she was arrested in Ghazni and was held by police.
Terrified that yet another secret prison was waiting for her she revealed how she peeked through the curtain divider into the part of the room where Afghans and Americans were talking, and how when a startled American soldier noticed her, he jumped up and yelled that the prisoner was loose, and shot her in the stomach. She described how she was also shot in the side by a second person. She also described how after falling back onto the bed in the room, she was violently thrown to the floor and lost consciousness. This ties in exactly with what I was told by the counter terrorism police chief I interviewed in Afghanistan back in the autumn of 2008 – I remember him laughing as he told me how the US soldiers panicked, shot randomly in the air as they stampeded out of the room in a blind panic.
Of course there's no way a bunch of soldiers are going to admit they lost it, but according to those I interviewed for my film In search of Prisoner 650 in Afghanistan that's exactly what happened.
Two of her missing children have since been found and reunited with their extended family in Karachi. It is still not clear where the children were held when they were snatched from a street in Karachi but there's no disguising their American accents ... possibly picked up from their jailers.
So why did the FBI want to speak to Dr Aafia in the first place and why did they portray her as a dangerous terrorist on the run? if she was the person they painted why wasn't she charged with terrorism offences and why was the prosecutor at pains to point out that she was not al Qaida?
One person who might hold the key is Dr Aafia's ex-husband who has resisted attempts to be interviewed by me. He was going through a very combative and bitter divorce in the months before she disappeared. He first came to the attention of the FBI in 2002 when he was living in America but what he told them that would lead them to suspect his ex-wife of wrongdoing is anyone's guess.
Who snatched Dr Aafia and her children? I don't know, but I have also tracked down several ex-Bagram detainees who told me they saw Dr Aafia being held in Bagram in 2005 and gave a positive identity of her by photographs before her kidnap and after her arrest in Ghazni.
The bottom line is Dr Aafia Siddiqui should not be in prison and as long as this injustice continues she will become a rallying call for anyone who wants to pick a fight with America.
Acknowledging the injustice and returning Dr Aafia to her home in Pakistan will not stop extremists from causing terror, but it might make the lives of US citizens a lot safer if this wrong is put to right.
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In a Twitter message, Mr. Khurshid Kasuri, former foreign minister of Pakistan (under General Musharraf) admits to handing over Dr. Aafia to the US and expresses regret. His Tweet is quoted below:
I'm so sorry for handing over the innocent @DrAafiaSiddiqui to the Americans. It was my biggest mistake ever!.Khurshi Kasuri (Former Foreign Minister)
by Joe Lombardo, UNAC co-coordinator
I arrived in Islamabad at 2:30 am on October 3 with about 7 other members of our delegation after a grueling fight from New York. We were part of the Code Pink anti-drone delegation to Pakistan. On arrival in Islamabad, we were amazed to see a large group of people welcoming us from the Aafia Siddiqui movement. This is a movement in support of Aafia Siddiqui who is in solitary confinement in a Texas prison serving an 86 year sentence. Aafia, like other Muslims in prison in the U.S. as part of the phony "War on Terror," is guilty of nothing. ...
... Aafia Siddiqui is a young Pakistani woman who was educated in the U.S. She did undergraduate work at MIT and got doctorate from Brandeis. She eventually returned to Karachi, Pakistan where her family lives. She had 3 children, 2 born in the U.S., making them U.S. citizens. In 2003, Aafia took her 3 children, ages 6 months to 6 years, on a trip to Islamabad and disappeared. The U.S. and Pakistani government both denied having her in custody. Five years passed and her family feared she and her children were dead when they got word from a reporter that she was alive and at Bagram Air base in Afghanistan. NBC news also confirmed this and the U.S. government finally admitted they had her in custody. She was taken to the U.S. and tried for assaulting a U.S. soldier in Ghazni, Afghanistan while she was in custody waiting to be interrogated. She was convicted and is now serving 86 year in solitary confinement at the notorious Carswell prison in Texas. Her family has had almost no contact with her and have been denied the right to visit. Her son Ahmed, a U.S. citizen, was found in 2008 in Ghazni, Afghjanistan. He was then reunited with Aafia's sister, who heads her defense campaign in Pakistan. Aafia's daughter, Maryum, also a U.S. citizen, was mysteriously dropped off in April 2010 near her aunt's house in Karachi after being missing for 7 years. When dropped off, the only language she knew was English, which she spoke with a perfect American accent. Aafia's youngest child, a boy, remains missing and is feared dead...
... On our second day in Pakistan, .. Judy Bello and I spoke at a press conference with Fowzia Siddiqui and people from the Committee of the Disappeared. As in Latin American under various dictatorships, people in Pakistan were disappeared as happened to Aafia Saddiqui. Judy and I spoke at the press conference along with Aafia's sister, the woman who heads the Committee of the Disappeared and a couple of other people. There were a lot of media, and they asked a lot of good questions. Outside the press conference, about 100 people, mostly women and children who are family members of the disappeared were waiting for us. We met with them. They wanted to be with us, many were crying. They carried pictures of their loved ones in the hope that it would help them find them. It was one of those situations where you just feel helpless, and there is nothing that you can say.
... We learned that drones fly overhead 24 hours a day. People are afraid to congregate, fearing they we be seen as a gathering of "militants" and will be attacked. Children no longer go to school because of fear that they will be attacked. This has caused a lot of psychological disorders in this area, and for the first time in their communities they are seeing instances of suicide. At one point, the regional jirga was targeted and 54 people were killed. Typically, the U.S. and Pakistan don't give compensation when someone is killed by the drones, but in this case they offered $6,000 for each family. This is a lot of money for these people, but it was refused by everyone. They said they want justice, not money.
... Also at the meeting was a journalist from North Waziristan who has been documenting the drone strikes. When there is a strike, he gets notified and goes to the site and records who is killed and takes pictures. Some of these pictures were blown up and put on our busses as we rode towards Waziristan the following day. Because of their customs, he is unable to take pictures of women or even record their names, but he has recorded the time and place where 670 women have been killed by the drones. This is far different than what we heard from the [American] ambassador . I tend to believe the journalist from North Waziristan rather than our government who lied to us about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
... On Tuesday and Wednesday, Judy Bello and I separated from the group to spend a day in Karachi with the Aafia folks and another in Lahore with the LPP folks. When we got off of the plane in Karachi, we were met by a group of people holding a big banner stating, "Welcome to our distinguished guests, Joe Lombardo and Judy Bello." We were taken by car to Aafia's home to meet her mother and children. All along the road, we saw banners and wall writing in honor of Aafia Siddiqui. My favorite sign said, "86 years – bullshit."
... At one point, there was a truck in the middle of the road surrounded by people and cars. The truck had speakers on it that were playing a song sung in Urdu. It was a popular folk song written about Aafia. Our car fell in behind the sound truck and started a caravan to Aafia's house. As we got closer, the road became packed with people welcoming us, waving, chanting, giving peace signs, and throwing flowers. The major road we were on was taken over by this crowd, and our car went along with them at a slow pace. At one point I got out and walked with the crowd. The police escorted us and smiled and waved at us. As we got closer to Aafia's home, her entire street had been plastered with huge pictures of demonstrations held across Pakistan and in other countries demanding her release. There was one picture of a demonstration in Pakistan that we were told was attended by over a million people.
...We held a well-attended press conference at Aafia's house and met her mother and her son and daughter. As always, they fed us till we could not look at food anymore.
After meeting the family, we were taken to the University of Karachi, where Judy and I spoke to a lecture hall full of students and answered questions. It was a very good exchange, and they were friendly and happy to see us, but the questions brought home once again how much people hate the U.S. government and don't understand why it does such terrible things...
... On the way back from this meeting, we were taken to a commercial area near the docks. There we found the sound truck again playing Aafia's song and a crowd of young men demonstrating for her freedom. Once again, we were greeted like heroes. We all got out of the car and marched with the protesters. We carried lit torches through the streets...
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This day in 2010 Richard Berman Condemned Aafia to 86 Years of Isolation
In response, on Sep 28, 2010, a million people poured into the streets of Karachi to peacefully express their support for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui following the actions of Richard Berman on Sept 23, 2010. This has to date been the largest public rally in recent Pakistani history and one that stayed true to Aafia's request that no violence be done in her name.
A Reflection from British Author and Commentator, Andy Worthington:
September, 2012
I'm sorry to report that it's two years since the Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui received an 86-year sentence in a court in New York...
The trial of Aafia Siddiqui, which culminated in her sentence, and which I described at the time as "barbaric," appeared to be a cover for a much grimmer story — one of the darkest in the whole of the torture-filled "war on terror" — in which, on the basis of alleged connections with terrorism that have never been proved, she had disappeared with her children in Pakistan in March 2003 and was then held in a "black site" until her engineered reappearance in Ghazni in 2008.
According to the US authorities, after being captured in a bewildered state, she allegedly tried and failed to shoot the Americans guarding her, which provided an excuse to render her to the US to be put on trial — an unusual move given that most people accused of anti-American activities in Afghanistan did not end up in the US — and for her to be silenced as a result of the 86-year sentence handed down after a trial that critics called "a grave miscarriage of justice," and to be held in isolation in a psychiatric prison/hospital for women in Carswell, Texas, notoriously referred to as the "hospital of horrors", where her health continues to deteriorate, and where she is denied meaningful contact with her family...
As time passes ...several significant figures have very publicly expressed their disgust at Aafia's plight, and the severity of her sentence. Recently, for example, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark visited Pakistan and stated, "Justice demands that Aafia Siddiqui should immediately be released. I haven't witnessed such bare injustice in my entire career." In addition, Khurshid Kasuri, Pakistan's foreign minister under Pervez Musharraf, the President at the time of Aafia's disappearance, has stated, "I'm so sorry for handing over the innocent Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to the Americans. It was my biggest mistake ever."
Furthermore, just this week US Senator Mike Gravel, accompanied by the attorney Tina Foster of the International Justice Network, also visited Pakistan, where, as the Express Tribune described it, they "said that the Musharraf regime had illegally kidnapped Dr. Aafia along with her three children from Karachi in March 2003, and handed her over to the US government for illegal interrogation and secret detention based on completely false information." The Express Tribune added that Sen. Gravel "maintained that Dr Aafia's trial in the United States was illegal," and "added that the US government had no moral or legal justification for their actions."
Both he and Tina Foster stressed, however, that the Pakistani government "would have to take serious action if it wanted Dr. Siddiqui to be repatriated." Foster said, "We have received no cooperation from the Government of Pakistan in securing Dr Siddiqui's repatriation to Pakistan. There's been a lot of talk, but no concrete steps have been taken despite numerous requests for assistance." She added, "I've come on a humanitarian mission to ask Pakistani leadership for its assistance in returning Dr. Siddiqui to Pakistan. It's obvious that the will of the Pakistani people is being ignored by their leadership."...
Mr. Worthington's full posting can be viewed here
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Inferring variance dynamics from an appropriate variance proxy is an alternative to the classical approach. Popular examples of such proxies are the realized variance and the Parkinson daily range estimator (Parkinson, 1980).
The realized variance for a certain trading day is defined as the sum of the squared intraday returns. The intraday returns used by V-Lab are computed in five minutes intervals.
The Parkinson daily range estimator is defined as:
where and are, respectively, the maximum and minimum log prices between the opening and the closing of day . Under the assumption of constant variance and zero drift within the day, the range is an unbiased estimator of the latent variance of returns.
Both the realized variance and the range are estimators that only use information recorded between the opening and the closing of the trading day, so they do not take into account the overnight information. There are several solutions suggested in the literature that account for the overnight information. V-Lab corrects the variance proxy (the realized variance or the daily range) by multiplying the series by a time varying adjustment factor in order to ensure that the average of the variance proxy approximately matches the sample variance of the returns. The adjustment factor is obtained as follows.
Let be variance proxy at time , i.e. is the realized variance or the high-low range at time . And let be the exponentially weighted moving average of the variance proxy . That is:
for some . Analogously, let be the exponentially weighted moving average of the squared return at time , so:
V-Lab uses and, for the initial conditions of the recursion, V-Lab sets and .
Then, the adjustment factor is defined as:
and, finally, the adjusted variance proxy is defined as:
From now on, when we say variance proxy, we actually mean the adjusted variance proxy , and that is the notation we use in the following subsections.
Consider a variance proxy (realized variance or high-low range, for instance) time series , where and is any distribution with non-negative support with unit mean and variance . So, is the conditional mean of .
Despite of having serially uncorrelated error terms, the variance proxy time series, , does not need to be serially independent. For instance, its conditional mean may depend on past information. The Multiplicative Error Model () assumes a specific parametric form for this dependence. More specifically, we say that if:
V-Lab assumes that the distribution of the fundamental innovation is Chi-Square, i.e. . Notice that it does not imply that the variance proxy (realized variance or high-low range) is Chi-Squared distributed. Even though its conditional distribution is Chi-Square, its unconditional distribution may be far more complex. In fact, assuming that the conditional distribution is Chi-Square is not as restrictive as it seems, since the parameters can be estimated by Quasi-Maximum Likelihood (QML). Anyway, in a more general scenario, one could assume that the conditional distribution is Gamma, and its parameters could also be estimated by QML. This would be more general because the Gamma distribution nests both the Chi-Square and the Exponential distributions.
Notice that modeling the variance proxy (realized variance or high-low range) with the model captures a stylized fact in financial time series, variance (hence, volatility) clustering. The variance proxy is more likely to be high at time if it was also high at time . Another way of seeing this is noting that a shock at time also impacts the variance proxy at time . However, if , the variance proxy itself is mean reverting, and it fluctuates around:
the unconditional variance proxy implied by the model.
Usual restrictions on the parameters are . Though, it is possible to have and ; the conditional variance proxy is then an integrated process (shocks to the variance are persistent).
Let be the last observation in the sample, and let , and be the QML estimators of the parameters , and respectively. The model implies that the forecast of the conditional expectation of the variance proxy (realized variance or high-low range) at time is:
and so, by applying the above formula iteratively, we can forecast the conditional expectation of the variance proxy for any horizon . Then, the forecast of the proxy for the compound volatility at time is:
Notice that, for large , this forecast of the proxy for the compound volatility converges to:
scaling over the horizon with the well known square-root law, times the square root of the estimate of the unconditional expectation of the variance proxy implied by the model.
The Asymmetric (), as the , is able to capture the stylized fact that negative shocks at time have a stronger impact in the variance proxy at time , than positive shocks. This asymmetry used to be called leverage effect because the increase in risk was believed to come from the increased leverage induced by the negative shocks, but nowadays we know that this channel is just too small. The specification is:
where , and:
where is the return at time . So, the effective coefficient associated with a negative shock is . In financial time series, we generally find that is positive and statistically significant. Notice that the is a restricted version of the , with .
The specific model just described can be generalized to account for more lags in the conditional variance proxy. A model assumes that:
The best model ( and ) can be chosen, for instance, by Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), also known as Schwarz Information Criterion (SIC), or by Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). The former tends to be more parsimonious than the latter. V-Lab uses and though, because this is usually the option that best fits financial time series.
An analogous generalization could be done with the model.
Engle, R. F., 2002. New Frontiers for ARCH Models. Journal of Applied Econometrics 17: 425-446.
Parkinson, M., 1980. The Extreme Value Method for Estimating The Variance of The Rate of Return. Journal of Business 53: 61-65.


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