Terror mom Aafia Siddiqui was sentenced today to a whopping 86 years behind bars after she was convicted of trying to kill US military officers in Afghanistan.
Siddiqui, an al Qaeda sympathizer, was extradited to New York after her July 2008 arrest.
She was convicted this past February of grabbing a rifle and trying to shoot US authorities while yelling, “Death to Americans!”
"This will shock the Muslims. I love America, too," she told a judge before being sentenced in Manhattan federal court.
Siddiqui, 38, faced a maximum of life in prison.
At her trial, a federal jury cleared her only of allegations that she committed the attempted murders "with premeditation." She had been found in Afghanistan carrying plans for a "mass-casualty attack" on New York City landmarks following her arrest as a suspected suicide bomber.

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Aafia Siddiqui.

The verdict capped off a dramatic, three-week trial punctuated by repeated outbursts from the petite Pakistani and a "Perry Mason" moment when her lawyers presented video evidence that two possible bullet holes found at the scene were present before the July 18, 2008, shooting.
Her conviction was widely criticized in Pakistan, where it led to a series of anti-American protests.
At today's sentencing, Siddiqui was allowed to give a long rant that highlighted the three-hour hearing.
Siddiqui was trained at MIT in the early 1990s and the feds claim she returned to her native Pakistan in 2003 after marrying an al Qaeda terrorist related to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.


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