Aaron Yoon, an ally of Katsiroubas and Medlej, was arrested in Mauritania before the attack and convicted of terror-related charges, but was freed in 2013 after 18 months and was last known to be living in London.
Maxime Hauchard of Normandy, France, identified in Nov. 2014 as the executioner who led the beheading of 18 captives from Syria and American aid worker Peter Kassig, traveled twice to Mauritania.Marcus Dwayne Robertson, also known as Cleric Abu Taubah, used his Florida-based organization, Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary, to send recruits to Mauritania before he was imprisoned in Florida on a weapons charge.
Ties to both Boko Haram and ISIS are also evident in the camps and in Mauritania.
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Eurasia Review reported in 2011 that Boko Haram leader Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya acknowledged that the terror group’s militants were trained in Mauritania and claimed that Mauritania “exported” Boko Haram to Nigeria.
There also are links between Mauritania and Boko Haram evident in its interaction with Al Qaeda for training and the supply lines for finance and weapons. In addition, there are recruitment centers and organized crime networks in Mauritania facilitating ISIS expansion in North and Central Africa, Khan said.In December 2014, Mauritanian security forces arrested four ISIS terror suspects in Zouérate, the largest town in northern in Mauritania, who claimed the Islamic State was “on its way to that country.”
African Youth Activist Omar Ould Dahmed told African media that the appearance of such groups in Zouérate isn’t surprising.
“The discourse of terrorist groups has been stepped up to kindle young people’s enthusiasm,” Dahmed said. “The location of Zouérate on the northern border and the fact that it lives on smuggling oil, foods and weapons made it susceptible to the infiltration of extremist ideology.”
In another event on Oct. 15, 2014, the Algerian military arrested a Mauritanian member of the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, which operates in the Jebel Chaambi border region of Algeria and Tunisia, and has formally “pledged allegiance” to ISIS in 2014.
“According to the Algerian security forces, Safieddine al-Mauritani and another member of the group were traveling to Mali in a four-wheel vehicle loaded with arms and a considerable amount of cash to execute attacks,” Khan said.“The Safieddine al-Mauritani arrest means that the traditional supply routes used by the cornucopia of jihadist terrorist groups in North Africa is now also being utilized by the Islamic State to catalyze their expansion on the African continent.”
Besides the two main Al-Qaeda terrorists training camps, there are about 7,000 mosques and 1,000 madrassas, or Islamic religious schools, in Mauritania, but the Mauritanian government monitors very few, creating opportunities for these institutions to be used as propaganda and training centers, Khan said.
Within Mauritania, there have been several terrorism related incidents waged by jihadists since 2005, including the assassination of four French tourists in Aleg by Al Qaeda, attacks on the Israeli and French embassies, clashes between Al Qaeda members and Mauritanian forces in Tevragh Zeina, the beheading of 12 Mauritanian soldiers, the murder of Christopher Ervin Leggett, a U.S. citizen, the kidnapping of three Spanish citizens, the kidnapping of an Italian couple kidnapped and other embassy attacks that were prevented.
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