*Source: DTN News / AFP
(NSI News Source Info) NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - July 18, 2009: Two suspected Islamist militants arrested after a shoot-out in the Mauritanian capital were the same men who murdered an American last month, the head of state security said Saturday. 
Senegal Dozens of Islamic activists freed from jail during a failed coup attempt against Mauritania's pro-West leadership have surrendered and are back in custody, an official of the Arab-dominated west African nation said Friday.
"The two people arrested Friday night were the killers of the American, Christopher Leggett," Mohamed Lemine Ould Ahmed, whose service is part of the interior ministry, told a press conference.
"They belonged to a cell of four people who have all been arrested, with the other two having been taken into custody on June 27," he said, adding that they had come from an Al-Qaeda zone in the north of Mali.
Senegal Dozens of Islamic activists freed from jail during a failed coup attempt against Mauritania's pro-West leadership have surrendered and are back in custody, an official of the Arab-dominated west African nation said Friday.
"The two people arrested Friday night were the killers of the American, Christopher Leggett," Mohamed Lemine Ould Ahmed, whose service is part of the interior ministry, told a press conference.
"They belonged to a cell of four people who have all been arrested, with the other two having been taken into custody on June 27," he said, adding that they had come from an Al-Qaeda zone in the north of Mali.
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