http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/20 07/November/subcontinent_November491.xml <http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2 007/November/subcontinent_November491.xml§ion=subcontinent&col> §ion=subcontinent&col Suspect in Pearl's killing dies after interrogation (AFP)
12 November 2007 WASHINGTON - A Pakistani businessman suspected of playing a role in the 2002 brutal killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl died earlier this year, shortly after being interrogated by US and Pakistani intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Pearl, a Karachi-based correspondent for the Journal, was kidnapped on January 23, 2002, and killed execution-style shortly after. The newspaper said Karachi businessman Saud Memon became a key suspect in the case because he owned a nursery where Pearl had been held captive. Citing an unnamed senior US law enforcement official, the report said Memon was interrogated by both US and Pakistani intelligence services. The interrogation produced information that Memon was helping Al Qaeda develop anthrax strains, the newspaper said. He was "in a lot of the rooms where important things were being discussed," the paper quotes the US official as saying. "He knew senior Al Qaeda people, and was moving equipment and supplies." But Memon's family members and human rights groups said that in April, the businessman was left in front of his Karachi home badly injured and emaciated, weighing just 80 pounds (36 kilograms), according to the report. About a month later, he died from what was described as complications from meningitis and tuberculosis, the Journal said. Pakistani human rights groups have accused the local intelligence service of torturing Memon, according to the paper. But the report mentions an unnamed Pakistani police official saying Memon was already in poor condition when the United States gave him back to the Pakistanis. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
