Mali says it arrests planner of deadly hotel assault
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's intelligence service says it has arrested a Mauritanian man behind a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in the capital, Bamako, last November.
The General Directorate of State Security said in a statement late Thursday that the man, identified as Fawaz Ould Ahmeida, was a main planner of the Nov. 20 attack on the Radisson Blu hotel that left 20 dead.