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Gaddafi spy chief held in Mauritania

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Libya's former head of intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi has been arrested in Mauritania. Al-Senussi, one of the most prominent figures in the country under ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi, played a major role in trying to crush last year's rebellion. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, along with Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam. Officials in Mauritania say al-Senussi entered the West African country on a flight from Casablanca in Morocco, using a false passport portraying him as being from Mali. "This is the happiest moment for Libyans, I wish we had arrested him here. No matter how much we subject him to, it won't be sufficient revenge for what Senussi did," said Al-Amory Abdulah from Tripoli. In Benghazi, people like Mustafa Jhyma were also happy with the arrest: "Senussi is Gaddafi's black box, he has a lot of information and he is the one who killed 1200 prisoners. He has blood on his hands and he should be brought here and tried in Libya." Authorities in Paris do not need a black box flight recorder to hold al-Senussi responsible for the 1989 bombing of a French plane. The aircraft exploded over Niger killing all 170 passengers. Al-Senussi was convicted in absentia in 1999, and last year, the French government asked that he be handed over. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com

Moorish Music from Mauritania

Dimi Mint Abba is one of the few artists from the northwest African country of Mauritania to have an album released internationally and is widely regarded as Mauritania's best-loved female singer and folklorist. Respected musicians such as Ali Farka Toure and Youssou N'Dour have openly expressed their admiration for her talents.

Mauritania (Cultures of the World) [Library Binding]

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Customer Reviews

The classics of psychedelic rock are well known texts, and the search by hardcore music fanatics to find the unknowns have pretty much looked under every available rock. This collection however represents an unturned stone, and reveals a bounty of low-fi recordings of fuzzy intensity. While not "songs" in a conventional western sense, these are potent electric guitar explorations of sonic brilliance. You won't necessarily find them getting "stuck in your head" but you just might play the discs over and over and over, as I have. Very stripped dow, just guitar and some vocals, some hand claps, this is vibrant music indeed. It makes you realize that some of the most amazing music you've ever heard just might be some of the simplest. Not really "rock", but this collection rocks.

Powerful example of the wide range of music on the Mauritanian scene. Much of the stuff is mesmeric solo guitar, haunting and lonesome, a perfect antidote for those sick of the wimpy and depressing direction Western electric guitar has gone these last decades (for example, `indy' rock). Jakwar is a type of desert boogie which takes its name from the French Jaguar jet and reproduces its ferocity and power, bringing to mind the way Iggy Pop wanted to reproduce the sound of an old Ford Motor Plant in his early tunes. This is 2 Cs packed with wildly inventive circular riffs that explode into wailing crescendo, then drop back on a dime. Other cuts have stunning vocals, growly, passionate, then murmuring delicate, up and down and from side to side. The percussion work uses odd time-signatures (for example, 9/8), which makes the music all the more vibrant and alive.
We find here the original John Lee Hooker hypnosis, as well as a distorted jagged howl that almost resembles, say, the Germs or Can. Many of these guitarist soup up their instruments with phasers, giving a Djinn-voiced otherworldly sound. The whole thing has a rootless, nomadic feel, as if it could pick up and go anywhere and be welcomed. Sacred hospitality is also a law in music.
The up-front recording, no frills or slick anemia here, gives some impression of the excitement that a show with these musicians must generate. According to the superb accompanying booklet, the gigs last for hours and the giddy audiences need to be held back when things really start going. I can see why.
This brilliant collection is more proof of the supreme importance of Western Saharan music. Like Mali and Senegal, Mauritania is making some of the toughest and most beautiful music in the world.
Don't miss this. Every cut's a killer. `Deadly', as the old Aboriginal compliment goes.

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