U.S. aid worker shot dead in Mauritanian capital

2009/06/23 13:55:56 @Reuters: International News

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a U.S. aid worker on Tuesday in the capital of Mauritania, an ally of the West in its fight against growing al Qaeda activity in northwest Africa and the Sahara desert. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=2bKHkeuM_ZU:1AKWJpiuu6E:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=2bKHkeuM_ZU:1AKWJpiuu6E:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=2bKHkeuM_ZU:1AKWJpiuu6E:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=2bKHkeuM_ZU:1AKWJpiuu6E:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=2bKHkeuM_ZU:1AKWJpiuu6E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/2bKHkeuM_ZU" height="1" width="1"/
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