Mauritania: Tale of Journalist Mistakenly Held As Al-Qaeda Chief

10 January 2016

Mauritanian journalist Cheikh Ould Salek was temporarily arrested when he boarded a flight from Senegalese capital Dakar to Dubai on January 3 after he was mistakenly accused of being a terrorist mastermind.

Ould Salek, who works for Sky News Arabia in Dubai, told Al Jazeera he boarded a flight from Sengal's Dakar and was planning to get some sleep on the 10-hour flight to Dubai when he realised he was in a lot of trouble.

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