First thing I think of, especially when it is a brief.
"Coup leaders free prime minister
NOUAKCHOTT - Mauritania's prime minister was released yesterday as junta leaders bowed to international pressure after a coup that prompted the United States to cut off more than $20 million in aid. But the junta was still holding the president and said it had no immediate plans to release him. The army-led "state council" had freed Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waqef and three other key allies of President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. The release followed lobbying by the ambassadors of the United States, France, Germany, and Spain who met with the coup leader late Sunday, according to a diplomat who asked not to be named (AP)."
Is the U.S. playing a game of double-cross like it did with Aristide?
