Three El Qaeda terrorists arrest in Mauritania

Three armed terrorists belonging to the ...El Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb... have been arrested before yesterday, according to well informed sources, during a combined operation of the units of the national police (gendarmerie) and the security forces. A fourth terrorist had escaped.

• Mauritanian daily newspapers ‘Essiradj’ and ‘Akhbar Nouakchott’ have reported that the three terrorists are now subject to questioning by the authorities who are working to extract their confessions, which will be published in the coming days. The newspapers have not disclosed the names of those arrested terrorists or their nationalities. The latter would belong to the Mauritanian Salafist extremist current activating in northern Mali.
  
  According to the two dailies, the security services have been able to dismantle a terrorist cell that was planning attacks against Mauritanian and foreign institutions in the country.
  
  Ennahar / D. B