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Mauritania: Al-Qaeda Offshoot Threatens Country

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Original Post Date: 2010-09-21 Time: 12:00:03  Posted By: News Poster

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb accused the Mauritanian government on Monday of killing civilians in Mali and of being the agent of France. In a communiqué published by the website Nouakchott Informations, Aqim denounced an aerial raid by the Mauritanian army.

“Our Muslim brothers in the North of Mali were the object of a cowardly aggression, which killed two women, Najiya et Salka, and wounded one man,” the statement said. “The Mauritanian army, acting in the pay of miscreants who kill innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq, is lying when it says that the woman who was killed was the wife of a mujahidin.”

They called Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz the agent of France and said that the blood of the two women who were killed would not go unavenged.

Mauritania launched a military operation against Aqim in the Timbuktu region on Friday, and Mauritanian troops clashed with Aqim fighters Friday and Saturday, in which eight Mauritanian soldiers and 12 Aqim members reportedly died.

Witnesses in Mali confirm that three civilians were killed in Sunday’s airstrike, but Nouakchott has firmly denied it, saying only that one woman died, and that she was the “wife of a terrorist”.

On Monday, France sent 80 troops to try to recover seven hostages, five of which are French nationals, from suspected Aqim kidnappers.

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Original Source: Radio France Internationale (Paris)
Original date published: 21 September 2010

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009210409.html?viewall=1