Pay attention to this little town of Lehleiwa (لحليوه), near Aleg. Readers will remember Aleg as the site of the murder of several French tourists by AQIM members last year. This weekend 3 Salafists were arrested in Lehleiwa, after an argument broke out between them and the townspeople over an unknown topic. Interestingly, one of [...]
Archive for October 12th, 2008
Salafism, AQIM and rural Mauritania
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Mauritania updates
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The compromise I mentioned last week was put up by Messoud Ould Boulkheir with backing of the FNDD. Abdel Aziz rejected it, in part because it did not allow him and his faction enough control and because it would have made the junta appear to having been folding to foreign pressure.
In other Boulkheir related news, [...]
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