Younis al-Mauritani transferred to Mauritania

WORLD BULLETIN.net ^ | Updating: 09:59, 02 June 2013 Sunday | n/a

[Cindy]

Note: Photo included with article.

SNIPPET: "U.S. authorities have transferred Younis al-Mauritani, held in Afghanistan, to Mauritania, officials in the West African nation said on Saturday.

Pakistan said in September 2011 it arrested al-Mauritani, better known in his homeland Mauritania as Youssouf Al Mauritani, during a joint operation with U.S. intelligence services."

SNIPPET: "Pakistani military authorities said Al Mauritani was planning to attack U.S. economic interests including pipelines, hydro-electric dams and oil tankers when he was captured."

[Cindy]

http://magharebia.com/en_GB/articles/awi/newsbriefs/general/2013/06/02/newsbrief-01

2013-06-02

“Top al-Qaeda terrorist transferred to Mauritania”

SNIPPET: “Al-Mauritani (aka El Hadj Ould Abdel Kader) was a senior al-Qaeda operative...”

SNIPPET: “He was captured in Pakistan in 2011. At the time, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) said al-Mauritani was an international threat, personally tasked by Osama Bin Laden with planning operations against “important economic targets” in the United States, Europe and Australia.”

[Cindy]

Additional link:

www.ani.mr/anifr.php?menuLink=9bf31c7ff062936a96d3c8bd1f8f2ff3&idNews=21885

[Vinnie]

Guess is so he can ‘escape’ to fight another day.

[Pecos]

And that, boys and girls, is the problem with catch-and-release.

[piasa]

This is the guy, I think, who in June 2 2010 asked permission from bin Laden to move to Iran.