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The director of a US aid group working in Mauritania was shot and killed in the capital of Nouakchott. An unidentified gunman shot the aid worker in the head in the middle of the city. No groups have claimed responsibility.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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