According to this article, several former prisoners at the US detention center at Bagram, Afghanistan say Aafia Siddiqui is being held there. Siddiqui is the first and only female sought by the FBI for questioning about Al Qaeda. The FBI considers her "armed and dangerous."

The Pakistani national graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in biology. 

Several former prisoners including British Muslim Moazzam Begg, who was held at Bagram before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and later released, and some Arab detainees tell the story of prisoner number 650, the only woman at Bagram. Their accounts claim that the detained woman cries all the time and appears to have lost her sanity.

"We have only indications on which we can claim that she is no other person but Aafia Siddiqui," retired Squadron leader and head of the Defence of Human Rights organisation Khalid Khawaja told Adnkronos International (AKI).

"She left her home to go to the airport from her Karachi residence," he told AKI. "It appears that she was picked up somewhere going to the airport. I tried to contact her mother but she refused to talk and later she also disappeared."

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