Tim over at The Road To Surfdom refers to this article in which the U.S. denies it has the children of Khalid Mohommad or has interrogated them:

Khalid’s sons ‘not in US custody’ ISLAMABAD: A United States spokesperson on Monday denied media reports that two sons of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, aged nine and seven, were in United States, in the custody of US officials anywhere else or had been interrogated by US officials. Asked whether the US government was aware where the children were, the spokesperson, declined comment.

But last week, the CIA said differently according to the Telegraph:

Last night CIA interrogators confirmed that the boys were staying at a secret address where they were being encouraged to talk about their father's activities.

"We are handling them with kid gloves. After all, they are only little children," said one official, "but we need to know as much about their father's recent activities as possible.

"His sons are important to him. The promise of their release and their return to Pakistan may be the psychological lever we need to break him."

Our earlier post on this is here. We think its time we got the straight story on this. Anyone from the CIA care to comment on their official web page? Thanks to Tim for the heads up. Update: Union Muse just sent us an email linking to this March 4, 2003 New York Times article stating: Besides eluding authorities in Quetta, Mr. Mohammed narrowly escaped capture last September, when Mr. bin al-Shibh was arrested after a shootout in Karachi. Mr. Mohammed had been in hiding with Mr. bin al-Shibh, and Mr. Mohammed's two young sons were taken into captivity after the shootout. Some officials said the fate of his sons might be used as leverage to try to pry information from him, although a senior American intelligence official said children would not be brought into the interrogation rocess. The New York Times link to the article didn't work for us but we found it on Lexis.Com By the way, if you don't have a Lexis or Nexis account, you can pay by the search with a credit card.