Mauritania opposition leaders abroad return back today

Mauritanian opposition leaders said that a plane carrying scores of Mauritanian opposition abroad will be returning back in a group flight today.

Those are led by Lt. Muhammad Weld Sheikhna, the field leader of al-Fursab (Knights organization for the change) which wanted a military option to topple the regime of the toppled Mauritanian President Seidi Ahmad al-Taye.

They also include the businessman al-Mustafa Weld al-Imam al-Shafe who was staying in Burkina Faso and is accused by former Nouakchott authorities of supporting and sheltering the "knights".

They also include both Breika Weld Mubarak and Wajoub Mustafa, two retired military men from the leaderships of the "national alliance" organization which was formed in 2004 in Dakkar, Senegal of 14 opposition leftist figures.

The list also include the group of persons who came back from the leaders of the knights of the change, a Leftist opposition group called "conscience and resistance." One of its main returning leaders Jamal Abdul Nasser Weld al-Yasa'.

The official spokesman for the Mauritanian opposition in exile Bade Weld Ibno apologized from taking part in this flight "for preparations for an emergency conference for the opposition coalition abroad aiming at providing final solution for the coalition and its commissions."

Weld Ibno considered in a statement the "returning back of the knights of the change as one of the main national events to take place on the national arena following the release of Saleh Weld Hanana who presided over three coupe attempts against Weld al-Taye in 2003 and 2004.