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| Mauritania opened negotiations with Abu Zeid |
| 2010-09-29 |
| [Ennahar] The Mauritanian authorities have released 27 Malian smugglers, members of groups of narcos. They have left the central prison in Nouakchott on Monday night. They were delivered to the Malian authorities who in their turn delivered them to the organization of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb... GSPC, activating in the Sahel regions, as part of a possible exchange against the French hostages kidnapped on 21 September in Niger. The Mauritanian army had carried out last February; a military operation against terrorist groups, during which three elements have been eliminated and the others jugged, a large quantity of arms and drugs was also seized. Presented in court, they were accused of trade and drug trafficking and support for terrorists, but they were released without having been tried. According to experts in the matter, the French authorities have opened the door to negotiations with the group of Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, leader of the phalanx "Tarik Ibn Ziad", responsible for the kidnapping of French citizens, employees of the company Areva in Niger. The latter have expressed their desire to negotiate with bully boyz in order to ensure the safety of their citizens. President Nicolas Sarkozy himself said, two days ago, that France is ready to discuss even though there were no sign on the possible start of negotiations. Traffickers that the Mauritanian authorities have released these days will probably be delivered to the terrorist organization in exchange for the French hostages. Moreover, many wonder about the release by Nouakchott of traffickers who have tied relationships with the terrorist organisation, who had been jugged in its territory while preparing to move large quantities of drugs and weapons, then they were not tried. Mauritanian authorities would not have acted such a way if they were not involved in negotiations between various parties working for the release of French hostages held by Abu Zeid, before this one changes his mind, as he did with the case of the British national Edwin Dyer, executed after London refused to negotiate and also the French national Michel Germaneau who was killed after the Franco-Mauritanian airstrike that killed six terrorists. This market is not the first since Nouakchott has already complied with the requirements of Madrid and the haggling of Bamako when she delivered the terrorist Omar Sahraoui to Mali who had in turn delivered him to the terrorist organization in exchange of Spanish hostages. |
| Posted by:Fred |