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Abdullah al-Senussi, former spymaster of Libya's slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi, was arrested in Mauritania, prompting calls Saturday for his extradition by Tripoli and Paris.
The former intelligence chief and right-hand man to Kadhafi was arrested at Nouakchott airport after arriving on a regular flight from Casablanca in Morocco, a Mauritanian security source said.
Senussi, 62, who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was travelling on a fake Malian passport. He was taken to the national intelligence agency's office, the source said.
Long feared in Libya, he is wanted in The Hague for crimes committed while trying to crush last year's uprising, while France has convicted him in absentia over the downing of an airliner that claimed 170 lives.
The former intelligence chief and right-hand man to Kadhafi was arrested at Nouakchott airport after arriving on a regular flight from Casablanca in Morocco, a Mauritanian security source said.
Senussi, 62, who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was travelling on a fake Malian passport. He was taken to the national intelligence agency's office, the source said.
Long feared in Libya, he is wanted in The Hague for crimes committed while trying to crush last year's uprising, while France has convicted him in absentia over the downing of an airliner that claimed 170 lives.
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Abdullah Al-Senussi, head of the Libyan Intelligence Service speaks to the media in Tripoli on Aug. 21, 2011. By msnbc.com staff and news services The arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's ex-spy chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, in Mauritania has set off a three-way tussle for his extradition.
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