Gunmen Kill American Teacher In Mauritania

Police, Witnesses Say Man Was Getting Out Of Car When Would-Be Kidnappers Killed Him

(AP)  Gunmen shot and killed an American man Tuesday as he left his car in the capital of the West African nation of Mauritania, police and witnesses said.

Two men had initially tried to kidnap the man, but he resisted and they shot him when they realized they could not overpower him, a police officer said. The office did not give his name because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

Witness Bilal Ould Mohamed and other neighbors said the man was a U.S. professor teaching at a center specializing in computer science in El Kasr, a lower-class neighborhood in Nouakchott.

Mohamed, a butcher, said he saw at least two young men rush up to the middle-aged man and shoot him several times in the head and face. Mohamed said he tried to stop them, but they pointed their gun at him before running off.

An AP correspondent at the scene saw officials from the U.S. Embassy arrive as the body lay on the pavement. The embassy in Nouakchott could not immediately be reached for comment.

Extremist violence in Mauritania, a moderate Muslim nation, has increased. In 2007, a group of French picnickers was killed. The gunmen were believed to be linked to al Qaeda's north Africa branch and the incident prompted organizers of the famous Dakar Rally to cancel the trans-Sahara car race.

[mysteriousjz]

One American killed is worth reporting and lamenting more than thousands and thousands of others killed by the "Angel of Peace." Double-Standard? Well!! Keep spewing your hatred for indigenous people of other lands, so that they may know what kind of enemy they are facing and what they need to keep doing to confront thye wolf in sheep clothing..........

[mcintoshlou]

OH MY GOD!

COME ON ALL YOU RED BLOODED REPULI'CON's

LETS INVADE, LETS ATTACK, LETS NUKE EM,


WAR MONGERS

[speakinup22]

mcintoshlou, I always find it interesting how people that don't believe, use "God" in their exclaimations.

Do you suppose He's trying to tell you something ?

[ubrew12]

American computer scientist, meet American weapons manufacturer

[speakinup22]

What a stupid statement. If it hadn't been a gun, it would have been a knife.

ubrew12, if you want to be a jerk about this - why don't you start complaining about AK47s, they are most prolific in the world.

Obviously you are someone that hates the US - so quit using the internet - we invented it.

[joule18]

I'm glad it is a "moderate muslim nation" as I would hate to think what they would do in a hard line muslim nation.

If people here don't get the message about Islam and what embracing Islam here will bring us, then they are sleep walking.

There were inaccuracies and looney, watered down statements from our POTUS in Cairo. Someone should pinch him and wake him up.

[mcintoshlou]

SOMW ONE SHOULD PINCH YOU AND WAKE YOU UP,

ALL YOU DO IS SPEW REPUBLI'CON' TALKING POINTS LIKE

SOME MINDLESS EVANGELICAL NUT JOB, LEARN TO READ