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JIHAD WATCH:6 gunmen shoot at Israeli embassy in Mauritania

[[[[[[Six gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy early Friday morning, trading fire with guards before fleeing, wounding some people, police and emergency services said. Israel's Ambassador to Mauritania, Boaz Bismuth, said no Embassy staff were hurt in the shooting attack, speaking to Israel Radio in a telephone conversation. "The six men arrived by car and regrouped in front of a discotheque just beside the embassy," said Hamza Ould Bilal, a taxi driver who was parked outside the club, called the VIP. Just after 2 a.m., he saw the men pull out their automatic weapons and scream "Allah Akbar!" [God is great] in Arabic, before assailing the embassy, he said."Guards at the embassy traded fire with the gunmen, repelling them. The men fled on foot, before jumping into a car,"]]]]]] said Bilal. The neighborhood was cordoned off by the Mauritanian military, who prevented journalists and visitors from entering. There was no immediate response from the Mauritanian government. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and her ministry's Director-General, Aharon Abramovich, spoke to Bismuth shoftly after the incident on Friday morning, Israel Radio reported. Abramovich told Israel Radio that ties with Mauritania are important to Israel, and expressed the hope that they would be strengthened in the future, in the light of the peace process with the Palestinians. "I have received many phone calls from Mauritanian friends who are very concerned. That is the only positive thing in a very sad night," Bismuth told Reuters. "It only happened a few hours ago, but a shooting on a foreign embassy is a very serious incident." An Israeli security source left for Mauritania on Friday morning to examine the security arrangements at the embassy, Israel Radio reported. The attack followed recent public calls by political parties in Mauritania, an Islamic Republic which straddles black and Arab Africa, for the government to sever diplomatic ties with Israel. The country is one of the few Arab League states to have relations with Israel. On Christmas Eve, four French tourists were killed by gunmen while picnicking on the side of a road in Mauritania, an act the government blamed on a terror sleeper cell affiliated with Al-Qaida. Their killing led the French organizers of the famous Dakar Rally to cancel the long-standing trans-Saharan race, which would have traversed this desert nation last month.

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