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'''Saud Memon''' (circa 1961 – 18 May 2007) was a Pakistani<ref name=SanDiegoUnionTribune20070518>
| name = Saud Memon
{{cite web
| birth_date = 1961
|url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070518-1727-pakistan-pearlslaying.html
|date death_date = 18 May 2007▼
|title = Pakistani owner of shed where Daniel Pearl was slain dies after strange disappearance
| death_place = ICU of the Liaquat National hospital
|author = [[Zarar Khan]]
| occupation = Business
|publisher = [[San Diego Union Tribune]]
}}
▲ |date = 18 May 2007
'''Saud Memon''' (circa 1961 – 18 May 2007) was a Pakistani<ref name=SanDiegoUnionTribune20070518>{{cite web |url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070518-1727-pakistan-pearlslaying.html |title = Pakistani owner of shed where Daniel Pearl was slain dies after strange disappearance |author = Zarar Khan|author-link = Zarar Khan |work = [[San Diego Union Tribune]] |date = 18 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070820170700/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070518-1727-pakistan-pearlslaying.html |archive-date = 20 August 2007 |url-status = dead |df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=dailytimes20070519>{{cite news |pages = 1 |url = http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C05%5C19%5Cstory_19-5-2007_pg1_10 |title = Saud Memon dies in hospital |publisher = [[Daily Times (Pakistan)]] |author = [[Azaz Syed]], [[Abbas Naqvi]] |date = 19 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080203090009/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C05%5C19%5Cstory_19-5-2007_pg1_10 |archive-date = 3 February 2008 |access-date = 10 November 2007 |url-status = dead |df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=AsiaTimes20070523>{{cite news |url = http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IE23Df01.html |title = Mystery 'missings' haunt Pakistan |publisher = [[Asia Times]] |author = Syed Saleem Shahzad|author-link = Syed Saleem Shahzad |date = 23 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101101021103/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IE23Df01.html |archive-date = 1 November 2010 |access-date = 18 November 2007 |url-status = unfit |df = dmy-all}}</ref> businessman from [[Karachi]] dealing in yarn and textiles.<ref name="dawn.com">[http://www.dawn.com/2007/05/19/local3.htm KARACHI: Key suspect in Daniel Pearl case dies]</ref> Memon was said to own the [[Al-Qaeda safe houses, Karachi|Al-Qaeda safe house in Karachi]] where American journalist [[Daniel Pearl]] was killed.<ref name=SanDiegoUnionTribune20070518/> Memon was wanted by law-enforcement agencies in the Pearl case for supposedly providing the place where Pearl was beheaded and subsequently buried. However, Memon was never formally charged.
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|title = Saud Memon dies in hospital
|publisher = [[Daily Times (Pakistan)]]
|author = [[Azaz Syed]], [[Abbas Naqvi]]
|date = 19 May 2007
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{{cite news
|url = http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IE23Df01.html
|title = Mystery 'missings' haunt Pakistan
|publisher = [[Asia Times]]
|author = [[Syed Saleem Shahzad]]
|date = 23 May 2007
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}}</ref> businessman from [[Karachi]] dealing in yarn and textiles.<ref name="dawn.com">[http://www.dawn.com/2007/05/19/local3.htm KARACHI: Key suspect in Daniel Pearl case dies]</ref> Memon was said to own the shed where American journalist [[Daniel Pearl]] was killed.<ref name=SanDiegoUnionTribune20070518/> Memon was wanted by law-enforcement agencies in the Pearl case for supposedly providing the place where Pearl was beheaded and subsequently buried. However, Memon was never formally charged.
 
==Disappearance and involvement==
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|publisher = [[CBS News]]
|date = 22 January 2003
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}}</ref><ref>[{{cite news |title=THREATS AND RESPONSES: PAKISTAN; Suspect Describes Ordeal of Slain Reporter (Published 2003) |work=The New York Times |date=23 January 2003 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/world/threats-and-responses-pakistan-suspect-describes-ordeal-of-slain-reporter.html?scp=6&sq=saud%20memon&st=cse/ Suspect|last1=Rohde Describes|first1=David Ordeal of Slain Reporter]}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100328214933/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,411458,00.html Who Killed Daniel Pearl?]</ref>
In April 2005, it was reported that Memon was one of the trustees of Al-Akhtar Trust International, a charity, the [[United States Treasury]] asserted, had tied to [[al Qaeda]] and the [[Taliban]].<ref name=DailyTimes20050419>
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|url = http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-4-2005_pg7_29
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|publisher = [[Daily Times (Pakistan)]]
|date = 19 April 2005
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|date = 13 November 2007
|publisher = [[Democratic Underground]]
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According to Memon's family, he was abducted in March 2003 from [[South Africa]] by [[FBI]] agents<ref name="amnesty.org">[https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/pakistan/report-2008 Pakistan – Amnesty International Report 2008]</ref> while on a business trip and later brought to Pakistan and held by intelligence agencies. His brother, Mahmood Memon, said the family learned only this year from another detainee, who had been released that Memon was in Pakistan
<ref name="nytimes.com">[{{cite news |title=Picture of Secret Detentions Emerges in Pakistan (Published 2007) |work=The New York Times |date=19 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612143807/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/world/asia/19disappeared.html?pagewanted=all Picture|archive-date=2020-06-12 of|url-status=live Secret|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/world/asia/19disappeared.html?pagewanted=all Detentions|last1=Gall Emerges|first1=Carlotta in Pakistan]}}</ref> and that "we don't know who had been holding him for the past over four years, but my brother had nothing to do with [[Al Qaeda]] or Daniel Pearl's murder".<ref name="dawn.com"/><ref>[http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=7931 Owner of shed where Pearl was slain dies]</ref> His sister said he was not connected to Al Qaeda or Pearl's death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Man with links to Pearl case dies |date=19 May 2007 |website=[http[Los Angeles Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306040742/https://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/19/world/fg-briefs19.4 Man|archive-date=6 withMarch links2016 to|url-status=live Pearl case dies]|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/19/world/fg-briefs19.4}}</ref>
 
A review of [[Bernard-Henri Lévy]]'s book ''Who killed Daniel Pearl?'', published in the ''[[Asia Times]]'' on 28 June 2003 said:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030629230648/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EF28Df02.html Book Review: Who killed Daniel Pearl? ]</ref>
 
{{quoteblockquote|An informant tells [[Bernard-Henri Lévy|BHL]] "how everything started by the dismantling ... of a cell making fake papers for al-Qaeda clandestines"; and how the investigation led to "a trafficker specialized not only in fake papers but in the export of clandestine workers to Riyadh, 11 or 12-year-old kids selected in Karachi and Dacca to work as jockeys in camel races on the beaches of Dubai and, last but not least, al-Qaeda combatants exported, through the Oman Straits, to the Emirates, Yemen and other Middle East countries". This man, the real target of the anti-terrorist operation of September 11, 2002, was not Ramzi bin al-Shibh (who was arrested) or alleged September mastermind Khalid Shaikh (who was not there), but Saud Memon, the owner of the lot, where Pearl was kept captive, tortured, executed and buried.}}
 
Mr. Mansfield of the [[CIA]] declined to comment on Memon's case, saying, "The C.I.A. does not, as a rule, comment on allegations regarding who has, or has not, been in its custody."<ref name="nytimes.com"/>
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|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/22/AR2007062201673_2.html?hpid=opinionsbox2
|title = A Mighty Shame: It's the Story of Our Search for Danny Pearl. But in This Movie, He's Nowhere to Be Found.
|author = [[Asra Q. Nomani]]|author-link = Asra Q. Nomani
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|date = 24 June 2007
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| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| author=[[OARDEC]]| author-link=OARDEC
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| date=15 May 2006
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==Torture controversy==
An article from the 12 November 2007 issue of the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' quoted an unnamed senior US counter-terrorism official, who said heMemon was:<ref name=WallStreetJournal20071112>
{{cite news
|url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119483721533389766?mod=googlenews_wsj
|title = Suspect in Pearl Murder Was Held, Covertly Questioned Before Death
|publishernewspaper = [[Wall Street Journal]]
|author = [[Jay Solomon]], [[Steve LeVine]]
|date = 12 November 2007
|access-date = 18 November 2007
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|publisher = Zee News, India edition
|date = 19 November 2007
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|publisher = [[Agence France Presse]]
|date = 13 November 2007
|archive-date = 2920 AugustMay 20092011
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{{quoteblockquote|...in a lot of the rooms where important things were being discussed. He knew senior [[Al-Qaeda]] people, and was moving equipment and supplies.}}
 
The ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' also quoted an unnamed Pakistani official who said that Saud Memon was held in the American [[Bagram Theater detention facility]], and that he was already in poor condition, when the Americans repatriated him to Pakistani custody.<ref name=AgenceFrancePresse20071113/>
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| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/09/here-are-the-names-of-the-119-prisoners-who-were-detained-in-the-cias-secret-prisons-program/
| title = Here are the names of the 119 prisoners who were detained in the CIA's secret prisons program
| worknewspaper = [[Washington Post]]
| author = Swati Sharma, Julie Tate
| date = 2014-12-09
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|url = http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/may-2007/5/index3.php
|title = SC seeks traced persons affidavits
|publisherwork = [[The Nation (Pakistan)]]
|author = [[Iman Hasan|author-link = Imam Hasan (author)|Iman Hasan]]
|date = 5 May 2007
|access-date = 19 November 2007
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