Word: mauritanian
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...unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows how the dandified collector of odd treasures could honestly mooch off duchesses while maintaining that one should live like a Mauritanian nomad...
...moved to Montreal last fall from Germany. U.S. officials found he had been in contact with Haouari. When his name was run through the databases, it turned out he was the brother-in-law of one of bin Laden's closest associates, a man cryptically known as "the Mauritanian." Washington experts say that man is a member of bin Laden's Shura, or advisory council, and there are indications that he may know something about the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Slahi had also been in frequent contact with his brother-in-law before Ressam's ill-fated...
...moment, the Algerian Connection's tie to bin Laden amounts to the fact that "the Mauritanian" and Slahi and Haouari talked to one another a lot. "It doesn't mean they were operationally linked," says an official familiar with the case. "You gotta prove that." To do so, investigators will need better luck holding on to their suspects...