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Reuters Africa, Italian hostage in Africa heard in Internet appeal, 28 Feb 2010 "An Italian hostage who was seized with his wife in eastern Mauritania in December has urged Prime Minister Silvo Berlusconi to intervene to secure their release in an audio clip posted on the Internet."

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Reuters, Al Qaeda urged Mauritania attacks over Gaza-group, 18 Jan 09 "Al Qaeda's North African wing has urged attacks against Israeli and Western interests in Mauritania, an Internet monitoring agency said, after the Arab state froze political links with Israel over its Gaza offensive.

"Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) also called on Algerians to disobey a long-standing government ban on public demonstrations and stage strikes to protest Israel's campaign against Hamas in Gaza."

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BBC News, Mauritanians jailed over al-Qaeda, 24 Nov 08

"An internet message purported to be from the North African wing of al-Qaeda in August urged Mauritanians to take up arms against General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz and the other military officers who toppled the country's first democratically-elected president."

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AFP, Al-Qaeda-linked group kills 12 Mauritanian soldiers: security source, 16 Sep 08

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albawaba.com, Mauritania: Al Qaeda calls to establish Islamic state after coup, 12 Aug 08, Abu Musab Abd el-WadoudAl Qaeda's North Africa wing has called for Jihad in Mauritania to establish Islamic rule after a military junta ousted the country's elected president. "Raise the banner of jihad and let us bleed and have our limbs severed until we bring back a caliphate styled along the lines of The Prophet's way," the leader of the al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, Abu Mus'ab Abd el-Wadoud, said in a statement posted on the Internet on Tuesday."

AFP, Al-Qaeda slams Mauritania over Dakar Rally: Internet, 5 Jan 08 "Al-Qaeda in North Africa in a statement posted on the Internet slammed Mauritania for planning to host the Dakar Rally as the organisers cancelled the event on Friday because of security fears.

"The government in Nouakchott has been busy "securing for the infidels a suitable climate for the 'Rally'," the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb said in the statement dated December 29 and posted on Islamist militant websites."