They wanted to kidnap and make money off him, but he fought back: “Suspected Al-Qaeda Militants Kill American Aid Worker In Mauritania,” from RTT News, June 23:
An American aid worker who resisted an attempt to kidnap him was shot dead in the Mauritanian capital Tuesday.
Reports quoting police said the attackers were suspected members of the north African branch of al-Qaeda.
Christopher Lenget, the middle-aged director of a school for computer science and languages in a low-income neighborhood of Nouakchott, was getting out of his car in front of the school, when two young men tried to kidnap him.