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...Mauritania SECOND TIME'S A CHARM Less than a year after he overthrew Mauritania's first democratically elected President in a coup d'état, former general Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz legitimized his rule with a landslide win in the northern African country's July 18 presidential election. Though opposition candidates rejected the poll as an "electoral coup," international observers maintain that the result appears to be legitimate. The election's peaceful conclusion opens doors for the reintroduction of international aid, much of which was cut off in protest after the 2008 takeover...
...question him. But he had ducked out to Ireland, where he was arrested briefly during the holidays, then released. Now he has disappeared. Last week came the clincher. A man who might link the Algerians directly to bin Laden slipped past Canadian surveillance to exit the country. Mohambedou Ould Slahi ended up in Mauritania...
...have uncovered links between Bin Laden and the bomb plot foiled last December by the arrest of a number of Algerian militants on U.S. soil. The suspected head of the Canada-based Algerian group was arrested recently in Senegal, at Washington's request, pending formal charges. Investigators say Mohambedou Ould Slahi also happens to be the brother-in-law of one of Bin Laden's key lieutenants. And the roommate of one of the Algerians charged in the case is associated with an Islamic charity that prosecutors claim played a role in the 1998 East African embassy bombings attributed...