Nouakchott, Dec 31, 2011 (SPS) - Mauritania without borders has learned that the Mauritanian authorities decided Thursday to expel the Moroccan journalist and correspondent of Moroccan Press Agency (MAP), Hafid Bagali, and gave him 24 hours to leave the country without giving reasons.
Sources said that Bagali has been working as a correspondent to the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP) since 2009, but he established a network of intelligence for the benefit of his country, including well-known journalists, heads of press organizations, activists in some opposition parties and other former activists in “Knights of the change” , who have relationship with the press and political network of “Ould Imam Shafii.”
Those who recently attacked Algeria and the Polisario Front are working within Bagali’s network, where they were focusing their work against Mauritania, and its relations with Algeria, Iran, Libya, Gaddafi, Syria, Mali and Senegal, and had linked to al Qaeda, which has ties with the Moroccan intelligence.
According to those who know Bagali, he received huge sums of money from the Moroccan intelligence to be directed to Mauritanian journalists, who selected on the basis of his relations with head of one of the Mauritanian press organizations. (SPS)
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