Israel expelled from Mauritania....
Yet another country pulls the plug....
Mauritania has expelled the Israeli ambassador and his staff from the overwhelmingly Muslim West African nation, Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Friday afternoon.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the Foreign Ministry had yet to release details. Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor would not immediately comment.
Army Radio quoted Jerusalem officials as saying that Mauritanian authorities on Friday morning had ordered the Israeli mission to dismantle the security apparatuses around the embassy and remove the Israeli guards, and that the embassy could therefore no longer operate.
An AP reporter in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott confirmed the embassy was closed.
Al-Arabiya reported that the Western African nation had given Israeli ambassador Miki Arbel 48 hours to leave the country.
posted by GayandRight @ 8:41 AM
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Don't be so hard on Mauritania, after all they did impose tough new laws against slavery.
As of August 2007 they actually have a law that imposes penalties for owning slaves.
Before that, while technically illegal, there were no laws regarding penalties for practicing slavery.
They did say that they don't really mean any of it and it was just a sop to the western powers, so it likely won't reduce the number of slaves now there.
Jesse Jackson, call your office.
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