A US court has found a Pakistani female scientist guilty of attempting to murder US agents while she was detained for questioning in Afghanistan.

美国一家法庭判处一名巴基斯坦女科学家犯有谋杀罪，据悉她在阿富汗拘留受审期间试图谋杀美国特工。

Siddiqui maintained the charges against her were fabricated

The prosecution¹ said Aafia Siddiqui, a US-trained neuroscientist神经系统科学家, picked up an army rifle and shot at the US agents.

None of the Americans was injured but Siddiqui, 37, was shot.

She was arrested by Afghan police in July 2008 on suspicion of有嫌疑 carrying chemicals and notes referring to "mass-casualty意外事故，伤亡人员 attacks" in New York.

She has been accused of having links to the al-Qaeda leadership and rights groups say she has spent five years in secret US jails.

A jury in Manhattan found Siddiqui guilty of attempted murder, of armed assault, using and carrying a firearm. She faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The attempted murder was found not to have been premeditated预谋.

Courtroom outbursts

After the verdict was delivered, Siddiqui shouted to the court: "This is a verdict裁定，结论 coming from Israel, not America."

She had argued that she would not get a fair trial if there were Jewish people on the jury.

Her two-week trial was marked by other outbursts爆发，破裂 from the defendant² which got her expelled驱逐，开除 from the courtroom.

The prosecutors³ said she was carrying bomb-making instructions and a list of targets including New York's Statue of Liberty when she was arrested.

She was not tried on terrorism charges, however.

FBI agents and US military personnel testified that as they prepared to question Siddiqui at an Afghan police station on 18 July 2008, she picked up an unattended未被注意的 weapon and began shooting.

The Americans said she had shouted "Death to Americans" and "God is great" in Arabic.

The Americans returned fire, wounding her, and she was brought to the US to face charges of attempted murder once she had recovered.

'Secret prison'

Siddiqui said she had been shot after looking out from behind a curtain for an escape from the police station.

She maintained her innocence⁴ throughout the trial. Her defence team claimed there was no forensic⁵辩论的，法院的 evidence the rifle alleged⁶ to have been used was ever fired.

Her lawyer, Linda Moreno, also said the government's witnesses gave contradictory⁷ evidence about where Siddiqui was in the room during the altercation争执, the number of shots fired and how many people were present.

During her testimony⁹, Siddiqui claimed to have been held in a "secret prison... where children were tortured", before her arrest in Afghanistan.

The comments relate to her mysterious disappearance¹⁰ between 2003, after she had returned from the US to Pakistan, and her arrest in Afghanistan in 2008.

She was divorced in 2002 and was said to have then married the nephew of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.US and Pakistani officials denied having anything to do with her disappearance.