Fate of some CIA detainees still unknown

Fate of some CIA detainees still unknown
Missing Boston woman among them, kin say

By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | September 22, 2006

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's announcement this month that the CIA has emptied
out its secret prisons has raised new questions about what has happened to dozens
of Al Qaeda suspects who were believed to have been in US custody.

One of them is Aafia Siddiqui , an MIT-educated Pakistani scientist and Roxbury
mother of three who disappeared with her children in 2003. A newly declassified
government document says Siddiqui married a top Al Qaeda operative who is among
the 14 suspects moved by President Bush from a secret prison to Guantánamo Bay
for trials.

But the document gave no further information on Siddiqui's whereabouts.

Siddiqui's mother said she believes her daughter was being held by the US military,
and she traveled to the United States to search for information after reading
Pakistani newspapers articles that said Siddiqui had been arrested in Pakistan and
sent abroad in a private plane, said Elaine Whitfield Sharp , a Marblehead lawyer
and the family spokeswoman.

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