text: the Cucking Stool: Detaining children
  Spot read about this Human Rights Watch report at Balkinization today:
  seven years old) were reportedly apprehended by Pakistani security forces during an attempted capture of their father, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Khalid Sheikh
  Mohammed was successfully apprehended several months later, and the U.S.
  government has acknowledged that he was in the U.S. Secret Detention Program. He is presently held at Guantánamo Bay.
  In an April 16, 2007 statement, Ali Khan (father of Majid Khan, a detainee who the U.S. government has acknowledged was in the U.S. Secret Detention Program and is
  presently held at Guantánamo Bay) indicated that Yusef and Abed al-Khalid had been held in the same location in which Majid Khan and Majid's brother Mohammed were detained in March/April 2003. Mohammed was detained by Pakistani officials for approximately one month after his apprehension on March 5, 2003 (see below). Ali Khan's statement indicates that:
  In the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, he indicates knowledge that his children were apprehended and abused: "They arrested my kids intentionally. They are kids. They [had] been arrested for four months they had been abused."
  The report was about some of the people who have disappeared into the black hole of secret detention by the U.S. and its allies in the War on Terror," many of whom have never surfaced anywhere since.