Capture
Upon his second return to Pakistan on March 5, 2003, Khan, his brother Mohammed, and other relatives were arrested at their residence in Karachi by Pakistani security agents and taken into custody. Khan and his family were taken to an unknown location. After about a month the entire family, with the exception of Khan, was released.
Rabia and the rest of Khan's family heard nothing of his whereabouts for three years until September 2006 when President George W. Bush announced that Khan, along with 13 other so-called "high value" detainees, had been transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantánamo to await prosecution under the new military tribunal system prescribed by the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
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