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Mystery Man Handed Over To
US Troops In Karachi
By Masood Anwar
The News - Pakistan
10-26-1

KARACHI - Pakistani authorities handed over a 'suspected foreigner' to the US authorities in a mysterious way in the early hours of Tuesday and there are strong suspicions that he was an Arab student of the Karachi University, with connections to some infamous wanted organisation. A Falcon aircraft owned by the US air force landed at Karachi airport at around 1 am and was parked in a remote, dark and isolated area at the old terminal, a source at the Karachi airport disclosed told The News.

The aircraft having registration numbers N-379 P arrived from Amman and departed at 2.40 am for the same destination, he said. "I cannot tell you about the nationality and identification of the person handed over to the US men. The entire operation was so mysterious that all persons involved in the operation, including US troops, were wearing masks," he said. A masked US trooper was also making a video film of the entire operation.

A private service company at the Karachi airport, Chemic Aviation, provided the airport services to the US aircraft. The 'wanted person' handed over to the US forces was not a Pakistani national as the man was addressed as a deportee. No one in the Civil Aviation Authority and Airport Security Force knew the details of the operation. Everything was kept in secret and operated by an agency, sources said.

It is the first time that Pakistani authorities have handed over any 'wanted person' to the US authorities at Karachi airport. There was some speculation that the person extradited may have been one of the Arabs arrested recently at Chaman at the Pak-Afghan border. But sources said there was no point in bringing him over to Karachi and to send him through Karachi Airport.

The most likely possibility is that an Arab student of Microbiology Department of Karachi University, who has been missing since the start of October, could be the man deported. Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammad belonged to Taiz, a city of Yemen. He came to Karachi in 1993 from Sana'a. Just before he went missing, Interior Ministry had asked the University administration to send all the information about him. His connections with any terrorist organisation or if and why he was deported, could not be confirmed from official sources.
 
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