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NEW YORK — A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist was convicted Wednesday of charges that she tried to kill Americans while detained in Afghanistan in 2008, shouting with raised arm as jurors left the courtroom: “This is a verdict coming from Israel, not America.”

Aafia Siddiqui, a neuroscience specialist who trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, claimed she had been tortured and held in a “secret prison.”

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