Qaeda link in tourist murders?
2007-12-25 22:55
Nouakchott - Two people wanted over the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania are suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda's North African branch based in Algeria, prosecutors in Nouakchott said on Tuesday.
Among three suspects in Monday's fatal shooting are "two young Mauritanians who are suspected of belonging to extremist Salafist groups", prosecutors said in a statement.
The statement referred to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), the Algerian group which earlier this year declared allegiance to al-Qaeda and renamed itself al-Qaeda's Branch in the Islamic Maghreb.
- AFP