Second Editorial: Saud Memon’s needless ‘disappearance’
Daily Times: May 20, 2007
An old Al Qaeda agent Saud Memon has died after being held incognito by “the agencies” for four years. By the time he reached the hospital his internal organs were hardly working. People know from the press that American journalist Daniel Pearl’s beheaded corpse was found in a property owned by Memon. He had run away after the grisly murder but was caught by the Americans and kept at Guantanamo. After he was released by the Americans, most probably because his state was already terminal, he was pounced upon by our boys. His arrest should have been announced. The whole exercise has been unnecessary.
Saud Memon was a part of the Karachi underworld whose largesse was accepted by the Banuri Town seminary to firm up the Al Rasheed trust fronting for Al Qaeda. He was the trafficker who specialised not only in fake papers but in the export of clandestine workers to Riyadh. He exported young boys selected in Karachi and Dhaka to work as jockeys in camel races on the beaches of Dubai. And he handled the logistics of Al Qaeda combatants through the Oman Straits, to the Emirates, Yemen and other Middle East countries. This man was the real target of the operation of 2002, not Ramzi bin al-Shibh. It was Memon who got together with Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and Umar Sheikh to capture Daniel Pearl, torture him to extract confessions, and then behead him. Pakistan probably “got” him back to see who else was involved in the whole conspiracy since at that time a number of functionaries of the state could have been the “handlers” behind the scenes. Another conjecture is that he was too dangerous because of his contacts within the state to be let out in the open where he could start telling the whole story. *
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