Accused Pakistani to see a doctor
From Times Wire Reports
A U.S. magistrate ordered the federal government to provide a doctor for a Pakistani woman charged with trying to kill U.S. employees in an Afghanistan gunfight.
A frail-looking Aafia Siddiqui sat in a wheelchair as Magistrate Henry Pitman ordered medical care within a day. Siddiqui’s lawyers say her health is worsening from wounds suffered in the encounter last month. Her attorney said she may have lost a kidney and suffered brain damage.
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