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Mauritanian police in al-Qaeda raid-(Attention Dems, AQ Is WORLDWIDE)
Al Jezeera ^ | 4-9-07 | Al Jezeera

Posted on 04/09/2008 6:02:29 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Mauritanian police have stormed a building in the capital Nouakchott, searching for fighters suspected of links with al-Qaeda.

The suspects, however, managed to flee before the security forces arrived.

A bomb-making factory was found but the gunmen, who're suspected of killing four French touists in December are still on the run.

The raid followed a gunfight between police and fighters on Monday night, at the same house.

The attack on the house followed street clashes in which 2 persons were killed and at least 8 members of the security force were injured.

Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the president of Mauritania has been visiting policeman who are being treated in hospital after being injured during the gun battle.

Mauritanian police said that the dicovery of an operational bomb factory in the abandoned house indicated the presence of a "terrorist" cell in the capital.

Mohammed Abdallahi Ould Adda, from Mauritania's judicial police force, said: "We found an expllosive device they were preparing to detonate in case the house was assaulted by the security forces."

"We also found a laboratory poised to produce explosives, " added Adda.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; globaljihad; mauritania; waronterror
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AQ is operating even in "Deepest, Darkest" Africa now.

Videotape of the Police Raid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtZEeNJliqw

You KNOW this won't make American Major Media, because acknowleding that Islamic TError is still a threat will not help get Democrats elected in November.

1 posted on 04/09/2008 6:02:29 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

But that’s not THE Al Qaeda. That’s Al Qaeda in Mauritania! And they weren’t there before the US invaded Iraq!


2 posted on 04/09/2008 6:04:08 AM PDT by LSUfan
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To: tcrlaf

Where the hell is Mauritanin?

OR better question may be :

What country was it before someone named it Mauritanin?


3 posted on 04/09/2008 6:06:58 AM PDT by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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“four French tourists”

Okay, maybe I’m ignorant on this and maybe Mauritania is a lovel place but of all the places in the world one could go on vacation......


4 posted on 04/09/2008 6:15:49 AM PDT by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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To: tcrlaf

I don’t know how they can say it’s Al Qaeda. Since it’s a country under Islamic control, whose to say it isn’t just regular everyday muzzies doing their obligatory jihad? A group of locals upset that their president Abdallahi (slave of Allah)isn’t imposing sharia law, or enough weekly public stonings of women or chopping of hands of petty thieves?


5 posted on 04/09/2008 6:20:17 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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"Okay, maybe I’m ignorant on this and maybe Mauritania is a lovel place but of all the places in the world one could go on vacation......

I was under the impression that it is some sort of tropical island resort, a tourist trap somewhere south Atlantic. There are some Mauritians who own a Jewelly store in town, but they are Christian. They aren't African looking, they are small, Sri Lanka looking, and they speak French. Maybe it's some small Island place along the Africa coast. The Frencj colonized a lot of those places, which are now being radical Islamicized.

6 posted on 04/09/2008 6:33:20 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

I thought it was in West Africa and i was proven right after looking it up. It’s just south of Wester Sahara and is a desert wasteland that has beaches. Since there are beaches everywhere I wouldn’t see the point in going to an Islamic country to visit one.

Maybe they thought they were going to Mauritius which I came across while researching Mauritania. I had never heard of it but it sounds like the place the people you know are from. It’s some islands 600 miles East of Madagascar and it’s mostly Indians.


7 posted on 04/09/2008 6:49:21 AM PDT by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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I travelled with a solar eclipse expedition to Mauritania in 1973. We slept in a schoolyard that the French copper miners in Akjoujt had built for their children. Local men guarded our equipment at night, and I spent several pleasant evenings with them, chatting and sipping a sweet aromatic mint tea that they shared with me.

My guess is that the French tourists were visiting family or friends of the Guelb Moghrein copper miners.

8 posted on 04/09/2008 7:31:56 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: submarinerswife
Facts about Mauritania (from US Embassy)

Looks like it was a part of ancient Ghana, then taken over by the Berbers, eventually the French made it their territory, and it established itself as the Islamic Republic of Mauritania around 50 years ago and joined the Arab League.

They speak Arabic and French. It's not on my vacation paradise list.

9 posted on 04/09/2008 7:55:11 AM PDT by Sender (Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom.)
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They speak Arabic and French.
In the desert, only the men speak French, so as to keep the women-folk out of touch with the outside world and at home churning goat milk butter.
10 posted on 04/09/2008 8:09:24 AM PDT by eastsider
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Mauritanian police have stormed a building in the capital Nouakchott

Is this a real place? Where's it located?

11 posted on 04/09/2008 8:34:46 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: tcrlaf; All

Just did some research into this place - 99.84% Muslim (most being Sunni).


12 posted on 04/09/2008 8:42:53 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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Mauretania is the large country to the north of

http://www.kingdomofbiffeche.net/

13 posted on 04/09/2008 8:46:42 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (GOP Plank: Double Domestic Crude Production. Increase refining capacity 50 percent)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Thanks, I did a google search and found it. Interesting information about it’s early formation.


14 posted on 04/09/2008 8:55:25 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: tcrlaf

Al Qaida was not in Mauritania until we invaded it.

Nancee Pillosee


15 posted on 04/09/2008 9:39:14 AM PDT by sappy
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Thanks E.


16 posted on 04/09/2008 9:54:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Mauritania&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=2


17 posted on 04/09/2008 11:58:42 PM PDT by Duaine (Peace is our profession....)
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To: submarinerswife

Now, now! Just take a deep breath, or two. My former secretary made so many typos that her nickname was “Whiteout Queen,” and she was a certified “professional.”


18 posted on 04/10/2008 10:49:43 AM PDT by Elsiejay (Rev.)
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To: Sender
and it established itself as the Islamic Republic of Mauritania around 50 years ago and joined the Arab League

Thanks.

19 posted on 04/10/2008 11:21:08 AM PDT by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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To: Elsiejay
Now, now! Just take a deep breath, or two. My former secretary made so many typos that her nickname was “Whiteout Queen,” and she was a certified “professional.”

Pardon?

20 posted on 04/10/2008 11:22:50 AM PDT by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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