Instead, officials were told to talk of "requests about the whereabouts of a person".
All I could think about was my address book, containing the whereabouts of every person I care for in this world.
"Any improvement in I.C.R.C. notification and access is a positive development because it not only accounts for the whereabouts of a person, but hopefully will expedite notification to the family who is left anxious wondering about the fate of his or her relative," said Sahr MuhammedAlly, a senior associate for law and security at Human Rights First, an advocacy group.
"They would whip us with lashes, and ask the whereabouts of a person whose name we had never heard".
Then he proceeds to discover the name, identity and current whereabouts of each person featured in the clip: today in Israel, Argentina, the United States.
Updated at 10.17pm BST 10.16pm BST My colleague Amanda Holpuch points readers to Google's person finder, which has opened a Boston Marathon Explosions page for people who are looking for someone or who have information about the whereabouts of someone.
Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, said in an e-mail on Wednesday that "the courts and the government are investigating cases of disappearances with a view to establishing the whereabouts of the disappeared persons and the circumstances under which the alleged disappearances took place".
Two others are fugitives, and officials refused to comment on the status or whereabouts of the eighth person named in the indictment.
For assessing external exposure, the relevant questions relate to the whereabouts of the exposed person during the period of exposure, the type of building where the individual resided or worked, and the number of hours spent indoors each day at each location.
So you can't seem to think of any mutual friends that know the whereabouts of your mystery person.
He inquires of gullible persons the whereabouts of the Prohibition office, tells a vague story about the widow of an ex-saloonkeeper who wonders whether she has the right to sell his remaining stock.
