A Mauritanian national was indicted in New York on Saturday for his role in 2015 attacks in Mali targeting Westerners that left more than two dozen people dead, a Justice Department statement said, IgbereTV reports
Fawaz Ould Ahmed, a Mauritanian Islamist also known as “Ibrahim 10,” is accused of having committed the March 2015 attack on the La Terrasse bar and restaurant, in which five people died.
He is also accused of masterminding attacks on the Hotel Byblos in Sevare in August and the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako in November that left 13 and 20 people dead respectively.
The shocking attacks were among the first to explicitly target bars and restaurants popular with foreigners in Mali, which has been gripped by a brutal jihadist insurgency since 2012.
Among the victims were Europeans, United Nations workers and an American international development worker, Anita Ashok Datar.
Ould Ahmed was charged in the United States with multiple terrorism offenses, the Justice Department said
