Mauritania seizes 'al-Qaeda' arms
2008-06-03 08:26
Nouakchott - Authorities in Mauritania say they have seized a large quantity of weapons believed to belong to an al-Qaeda-linked group.
Security chief Mohamed Lemine Ould Ahmed said police seized the weapons in early May using information given by suspected terrorists arrested in sting operations in April.
Ahmed refused to detail quantities, but he said on Monday that it was enough to "destroy whole neighbourhoods of Mauritania's capital". He said the arms included bombs, detonators, guns, ammunition and suicide vests.
Ahmed said these arms were in addition to those found during the arrests. Those arrested were suspected of belonging to an alleged terror cell called al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa.
- AP