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Mali says it arrests planner of deadly hotel assault

BAMAKO (Mali) — Mali’s intelligence service says it has arrested a Mauritanian man behind a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in the capital, Bamako, last November.

French troops, rear, inside the Radisson Blu hotel after an attack by gunmen on the hotel in Bamako, Mali, on Nov 20, 2015. Photo: AP

French troops, rear, inside the Radisson Blu hotel after an attack by gunmen on the hotel in Bamako, Mali, on Nov 20, 2015. Photo: AP

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BAMAKO (Mali) — Mali’s intelligence service says it has arrested a Mauritanian man behind a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in the capital, Bamako, last November.

The General Directorate of State Security said in a statement late Thursday (April 21) that the man, identified as Fawaz Ould Ahmeida, was a main planner of the Nov 20 attack on the Radisson Blu hotel that left 20 dead.

It also linked him to an attack last month on the European Union military training mission’s headquarters in Bamako. One assailant died in that incident.

The statement said Ould Ahmeida is a member of the Al-Mourabitoun group, which has also been implicated in the March 13 assault on a beach town in Ivory Coast. It said he was plotting attacks on Western targets for this weekend. AP

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