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“... In​ the autumn of 2001 Mohamedou OuldSlahi was working in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, setting up computer networks. He was born in the hinterlands, son of a nomadic camel trader, and had picked up the trade in Germany; he went to the University of Duisberg on a scholarship in 1988, at the age of 17 ...”

“... of the jihad in Chechnya, and al-Masri gave him contact information for a man in Duisburg called Mohamedou OuldSlahi, a significant al-Qaida operative in Europe, already known to US and German intelligence, though neither agency knew that he was then living in Germany. Some days later, bin al-Shibh, accompanied by ...”