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Kidnapper of Spanish aid workers loses Mauritania appeal
[Maghrebia] A Mauritanian court on Wednesday (August 11th) rejected an appeal from the convicted kidnapper of three Spanish aid workers, ANI reported. Magistrates in Nouakchott upheld the 12-year forced labour sentence for Malian national Omar Sid'Ahmed Ould Hamma (aka Omar Sahraoui), the ringleader of the armed group that ambushed a humanitarian convoy on the Nouakchott-Nouadhibou road last November. Albert Vilalta and Roque Pascual remain held in Mali by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.Posted by: Fred 2010-08-13 |
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