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unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows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...
From his Denver jail cell, the nearly bald, swastika-tattooed murder suspect spoke the sort of poker-faced lunacy that the nation hoped it had left behind. "In a war," said Nathan Thill, 19, explaining why he shot defenseless Mauritanian immigrant Oumar Dia, "everyone wearing an enemy uniform is an enemy and should be taken out." Dia's "uniform" was apparently his skin color. Thill's "war," of course, existed only in his head. Or did it? Last week, after attacks on civilians and police by short-haired haters that left two people dead, one paralyzed and parts...
...Friday violence flared again in Dakar as pillaging of Mauritanian shops continued and returning Senegalese told stories of Mauritanian atrocities in Nouakchott. As 20,000 Mauritanians, protected by army troops, gathered at Dakar's international fairground for repatriation, the Senegalese government sent a warning: if Mauritanian security forces proved to have been involved in the killing, the Senegalese reserved the right to retaliate...