[Maghrebia] A young Mauritanian terrorist was sentenced to five years in prison by an Algiers court on Tuesday (May 12th). Mokhtar Ben Mohamed Ben Mahmoud, alias Abu Alqama, 23, was arrested last January during an army operation near Illizi. After leaving Nouakchott in 2007, he reportedly trained with al-Qaeda affiliated fighters in Mali for several months before entering Algeria with some 30 other men to undergo further training at a Sahel camp. He testified in court that he came to Algeria to join combatants fighting in Iraq, Ennahar reported. In related news, an Algerian court in Ain El-Melh (400 km south-east of Algiers) charged nine members of a nomadic group with supporting a terrorist organisation, APS reported on Tuesday (May 12th). The group allegedly sheltered al-Qaeda fighters and provided information to terrorists on the movements of national security forces.