{"id":311696,"date":"2011-03-15T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/15\/mauritanians-shot-dead-us-man\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T17:31:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:31:28","slug":"mauritanians-shot-dead-us-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/mauritanians-shot-dead-us-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritanians &#8216;shot dead US man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"42.9794801642\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>15 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>13:31 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three Mauritanian alleged members of al-Qaeda&#8217;s North African branch have gone on trial for the 2009 killing of a US man in the capital, Nouakchott.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Leggett, 39, was shot dead near the English and computer school which he headed.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution has demanded the death penalty. The suspects deny the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has said it carried out the killing and accused Mr Leggett of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>The group emerged out of Algerian Islamist fighters and now operates in several north-west African countries.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-africa-12750853\" title=\"Mauritanians 'shot dead US man'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mauritanians &#8216;shot dead US man&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 15 March 2011 Last updated at 13:31 ET Three Mauritanian alleged members of al-Qaeda&#8217;s North African branch have gone on trial for the 2009 killing of a US man in the capital, Nouakchott. Christopher Leggett, 39, was shot dead near the English and computer school which he headed. The prosecution has demanded the death penalty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mauritanians &#039;shot dead US man&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/mauritanians-shot-dead-us-man\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mauritanians &#039;shot dead US man&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"15 March 2011 Last updated at 13:31 ET Three Mauritanian alleged members of al-Qaeda&#039;s North African branch have gone on trial for the 2009 killing of a US man in the capital, Nouakchott. 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