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Judge Orders Doctor For Detained Pakistani
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In any case, news of the July confrontation does little to clear up the mystery of Siddiqui's whereabouts for the past five years. She had disappeared with her three young children while visiting her parents in Karachi, Pakistan, in March 2003, around the time the FBI announced it wanted to question her about al-Qaeda.
For five years, authorities denied knowing her whereabouts, while rumors circulated that she was being held by either Pakistani or U.S. officials.
Siddiqui told her lawyers that she had been held for years by Americans and "tortured mentally and physically," Sharp said.
In Pakistan, her case has raised anger about the hundreds of people who have disappeared since Sept. 11, 2001, and in recent days it has sparked demonstrations in Islamabad and Karachi.
Pakistani demonstrators yelled, "She is one of the missing persons!" to Saqib Rauf, a vice consul for Pakistan in New York, as he was standing outside the court talking to reporters.
Siddiqui's family has said that she is innocent and that she has been in U.S. custody all these years.
"I don't know what's happening. I'm going out of my mind. I can't understand what is happening now," said her mother, Ismad Siddiqui, in Karachi.
Correspondent Candace Rondeaux in Islamabad and special correspondent Javed Hamdard in Kabul contributed to this report.
