Aafia Siddiqui aka The Grey Lady of al Qaeda's latest stunt.

Looks like there's been more court room shenanigans from al Qaeda's gun moll. Following her al Qaeda training manual to a tee, she continues to disrupt her trial at every turn. Just imagine what it's going to be like when KSM hits town:

From the AP:

A U.S.-trained scientist accused of shooting at FBI agents and helping al-Qaida vowed Thursday to boycott her January trial.

Aafia Siddiqui interrupted lawyers at her pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to announce that she did not plan to participate in her trial, scheduled for Jan. 19.

"I am boycotting this trial," she said. "I am innocent of all the charges and I can prove it, but I will not do it in this court."

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Before he (Judge Berman) ruled on the request, Siddiqui said visits by her lawyers were "torture for me" and it was a waste of money for lawyers to go to Afghanistan to interview witnesses because she was not participating in the trial.

"I'm not dealing with them anymore," Siddiqui said of her lawyers. "They're just people coming to my door and talking, talking, talking."

During a break, Siddiqui was led out of the courtroom by U.S. marshals when she would not stop talking loudly. "Take me out," she said. "I'm not coming back."

And speaking of court room shenanigans - check out the stunts the motions her defense team put forward and then just imagine all the legal machinations and maneuvering that will toccur at the KSM trial. It's going to be a freaking zoo:

From Dawn.com:

A US Federal Court has rejected Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s defence team’s appeal to dismiss the case against her as the alleged crime was not committed on the American soil. At a pre-trial hearing Judge Richard Berman cited a congressional statute as well as past precedent to rule that the court had jurisdiction in Dr. Siddiqui's case. Siddiqui, is in a New York jail charged with attacking US interrogators in Afghanistan in July 2008 and was brought to New York in US custody the following month.

The defence argued that it was against the Geneva conventions to try Dr. Aafia Siddiqui for attempted murder in the US when the crime was allegedly committed in Afghanistan.

Siddiqui on her part protested the proceedings and was sent to another room to watch the proceedings on a closed circuit TV.

In another motion, the defence asked the court to throw out the first count of the indictment against Dr. Siddiqui on technical grounds but that motion was also dismissed

More posts detailing The Grey Lady of al Qaeda's courtroom antics can be found here.