Army in control in Mauritania, news of killing coupe leader
Mauritania, Politics, 6/11/2003

The Mauritanian army forces have tightened their control on the capital Nouakchott and deployed their units in the sensitive sites of it after defeating the coupe attempt which took part in the country two days ago and resulted in great destruction in government's installations.

The army and security forces that supported President Mu'aweya Wild Taye' started to restore control in the country. The army forces started to install check points on the road in the downtown of the capital while the police intensified their on foot patrols to chase thieves who carried looting operations during the coupe attempt.

This came after the president of Mauritania announced through the official TV and radio the foiling of the coupe attempt carried out by officers in the army.

News reports, on the other hand, said that the USA announced it had sent forces to Mauritania to protect its embassy there following the failed coupe, giving no mention to the number of these forces or the type of its armament.

The Mauritania's opposition Abdullah Bin Ali, who lives in Morocco expected that the USA had provided logistic support to the Mauritanian forces via transporting Mauritanian soldiers from military bases in the northern part of the country to Nouakchott suburbs or inside it.

In a statement Bin Ali said that the Mauritania president had established firm alliance relations with Washington since 1999 as he had replaced the French military advisors who were in Mauritania since its independence in 1960 by American military advisors and trainers.

Bin Ali stressed that the Mauritania alliance with the US and Israel was one of the main motives for this coupe.

The Mauritanian opposition member also denied what was stated in the western mass media in that this coupe was carried out by Islamist groups as a reaction to the acts of arrest in their lines.

Previous Stories:
  Calm in Mauritania as Wild Taye' survives the coupe   (6/10/2003)
  News on defeating Mauritania's coupe, vagueness overwhelms   (6/9/2003)
  Mauritania escalates detentions against Islamists   (5/30/2003)

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