(EDIT: the original NPR title for this piece is "Pakistani Woman's Arrest Prompts Questions". And it certainly does. - rep.)

American Intelligence turns brilliant young MIT graduate into mental vegetable.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93571773

Until last month, Aafia Siddiqui had been the most wanted woman in the world.

The FBI accused her of being an al-Qaida operative, a fixer for the terrorist organization in the U.S. Now she sits in a prison in New York at the center of a mystery about what she has been doing — and where she has been — for the past five years.

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Whitfield Sharp says her client is tremendously confused. She has lost track of time. She doesn't know how long she has been gone. She is very passive. She is "like a person who has been excessively institutionalized," she said.