al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab, 279–80, 288, 323
al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 69, 327, 413
Zeewolde, Holland, 63, 65
Zembla (TV program), xiii, 331, 338, 342; “The Holy Ayaan,” 348, 349, 352, 477n56
Zouine, Bouchra, 313
Zubaydah, Abu, 185, 418
Acknowledgments
My deepest thanks are owed to my wise and supportive agents, Toby Eady and Jennifer Joel, whose enthusiasm launched this book and who steered the project past many shoals; to my editor, Claire Wachtel, in the United States and to Jan Mets in the Netherlands, both of whom stuck by it with fierce loyalty; and especially to Jamie Coleman at Toby Eady and Associates, a brilliant young agent who labored mightily to put it in shape.
At Vogue, my editors, Eve MacSweeney and Laurie Jones, set me off on this journey when they assigned me to write a profile of Aafia Siddiqui in 2004. Roane Carey at The Nation then introduced me to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s story by agreeing to let me write about her in 2005.
My friends Tom Lansner, Jan Michael, and Javaid Aziz took time to read the manuscript and provided crucial comments and suggestions.
Among those who provided advice and hospitality along the way, I am especially grateful to Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac, Julie and Elliott Taylor, Petra Bartosiewicz, Joanne Mariner, Marnie Henricksson, Russell Shorto, Tom Lansner and Joanne Nagano, Mary Lee and David Owen, Pat Michaelson and Joel Bowman, David Lewis and Danica Kombol, Tom Milo, the late Gritta Weil, William Shawcross, Sheila Dillon and Peter Koenig, Ralitsa Ivanova and Mumchil Ivanov, Mischa Alexander, Dunya Verwey and Jurn Buisman, Roland Spek, Alex de Waal and Nimco Mahamud-Hassan, and Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar.
No one sacrificed more to see this book become a reality than my husband, Colin Campbell, and our two daughters, Anna and Elizabeth. Colin went through the entire manuscript three different times, adding immeasurably to the final product. His confidence and good cheer sustained me during a difficult process. I can never thank him enough.
Photo Insert
Theo van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker who made “Submission” with Ayaan and was murdered as he bicycled to work on November 2, 2004, by the would-be jihadi Mohammed Bouyeri. (AP Photo/Willem ten Veldhuys/Dijkstra b.v.)
Mohammed Bouyeri, the twenty-six-year-old Dutch-Moroccan murderer of Theo van Gogh. (AP Photo/Justice Ministry via Dutch television)
Ayaan returns to Parliament on January 18, 2005. She spent more than ten weeks in hiding in the United States after the murder of Theo van Gogh. (AP Photo/Fred Ernst)
Ayaan chats with U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice at Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala on May 8, 2006. Ayaan was named one of Time’s one hundred most influential people in 2005. (Getty Images Entertainment/Evan Agostini)
A tearful Ayaan announces her resignation from Parliament on May 16, 2006, after Dutch immigration authorities ruled that her Dutch citizenship was no longer valid, because she had changed her name and date of birth on her asylum application in 1992. (AP Photo/Rob Keeris)
Ayaan and the British historian Niall Ferguson at Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala on May 5, 2009. The two were married on September 10, 2011. (Getty Images Entertainment/Jemal Countess)
The Seeking Information bulletin issued for Aafia by the FBI after the arrests of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Majid Khan in March 2003. Seeking Information was a new type of bulletin created by the FBI in 2002 to acquire information from the public about terrorist suspects who had not been indicted by an American grand jury.
The Seeking Information bulletin issued for Aafia’s first husband, Mohammed Amjad Khan, in March 2003. After Amjad met with the FBI in Karachi, his bulletin was marked Located.
Elaine Whitfield Sharp, the lawyer Aafia’s family hired, stands before a picture of Aafia at her 1995 graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sharp was speaking at a press conference held after U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft called upon Americans on May 26, 2004, to be on the lookout for Aafia and six other suspected terrorists. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
The iconic photograph of Aafia in the Ghazni police station in Afghanistan after she was captured and beaten by Afghan police on July 17, 2008. Many Pakistanis mistakenly believed the photograph had been taken after Aafia was tortured by the CIA in one of its secret prisons. (AP Photo/File)
Aafia (right) and her eleven-year-old son, Ahmad, cover their faces at a press conference that was held by the Ghazni governor’s office on July 18, 2008, to announce their capture. Aafia told the police that her name was Saliha and the boy’s name was Ali Hasan. She claimed he was an orphan she had adopted after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. (AP Photo)
Aafia’s mother, Ismat Siddiqui, gestures despairingly as she and Aafia’s sister, Fowzia Siddiqui, watch a February 4, 2010, news report on Aafia’s conviction in a U.S. federal court on attempted murder charges. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Aafia’s son Ahmad shortly before he was returned from Afghanistan to Aafia’s mother and sister in Pakistan in October 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Aafia’s daughter, Maryam, with her aunt Fowzia. Maryam had been missing for seven years when Aafia’s mother and sister claimed that the twelve-year-old mysteriously appeared on their doorstep in April 2010 with a placard around her neck bearing their address. Aafia’s youngest child, Suleman, remains missing. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
One of hundreds of rallies held in Pakistan to protest Aafia’s imprisonment in the United States. After Aafia’s 2010 conviction on attempted murder and assault charges, U.S. judge Richard Berman sentenced her to eighty-six years in prison. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
About the Author
Deborah Scroggins is the author of Emma’s War, which was translated into ten languages and won the Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize. Scroggins has written for The Sunday Times Magazine, The Nation, Vogue, Granta, and many other publications, and she has won two Overseas Press Club awards and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award as a foreign correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.
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Scroggins, Deborah.
Wanted women : faith, lies, and the war on terror : the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui / by Deborah Scroggins. — 1st ed.
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ISBN 978-0-06-089897-7
1. Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 1969– 2. Siddiqi, ‘Afiyah, 1972– 3. Muslim women—Social conditions. 4. Muslim women—Political activity. I. Title.
HQ1170.S35 2011
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