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