[Maghrebia] Mauritanian police in the southern border region of Guidimakha arrested a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist on Sunday (January 24th), ANI reported. Moctar Ould Bukhari, who works as a truck-driver between Selibaby in Mauritania and Kaye in Mali, was apprehended in the Senegal river town of Gouray on suspicion of helping al-Qaeda attack military targets in northern Mauritania last year. At the time of his arrest, the suspect was reportedly in possession of unspecified electronic equipment and a Thuraya-model satellite telephone. |