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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Fox says Time Warner Cable may drop Fox TV shows 18 Dec 2009 Exclusive: Pentagon delays new "bunker buster" bomb 18 Dec 2009 WRAPUP 4-U.S. Democrats secure 60th vote on health bill 2:49pm EST Democrats secure 60th vote on health bill 3:20pm EST U.N. climate talks end with bare minimum agreement | Video 3:09pm EST Exclusive: Pentagon delays new "bunker buster" bomb 18 Dec 2009 Fox says Time Warner Cable may drop Fox TV shows 18 Dec 2009 U.N. climate talks end with bare minimum agreement | Video 3:09pm EST Democrats secure 60th vote on health bill 3:20pm EST WRAPUP 4-U.S. Democrats secure 60th vote on health bill 2:49pm EST Italian couple kidnapped in Mauritania Laurent Prieur NOUAKCHOTT Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:29pm EST NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - An Italian couple has been kidnapped in eastern Mauritania, Italian state television said on Saturday, and their bullet-riddled vehicle was found near the border with Mali. World | Italy The couple's driver, from Ivory Coast, also was missing, a local journalist said. There was no official confirmation by the Mauritanian authorities but the couple's vehicle was found in an area where armed groups with links to al Qaeda are known to operate. Local diplomats and a journalist said the attack appeared to be the latest in a string of kidnappings in the region. Italian state television said a 65-year-old man and his 39-year-old wife were kidnapped and their minibus found riddled with bullets, without citing its sources for the report. "We don't have confirmation that this was a kidnap, but everything seems to point to that hypothesis," Patrick Mura, an official at the Italian embassy in Dakar, told the state channel. A diplomat in Mauritania told Reuters the incident seemed "more and more" like a kidnapping but it was not clear who was responsible. Malian security forces have been put on high alert by their Mauritanian counterparts, who reported a kidnapping and warned that the gunmen may attempt to smuggle their hostages across the border, Malian government officials said. Armed groups, some of them with links to al Qaeda's wing in the region, operate across the vast, remote desert zone, which includes eastern Mauritania, northern Mali and southern Algeria. Analysts say local gangs, generally involved in the smuggling of cigarettes, weapons, drugs and people, are starting to consider kidnapping foreigners and selling them on to the Islamist group operating in the region. Italy's foreign ministry has said it was checking the report. The pair were believed to be traveling to Mali. NEAR AL QAEDA BASE Several local journalists said residents near Kobenni, a town eight km (five miles) from the border with Mali, heard gunfire on Friday evening close to where the couple's vehicle was found. Isselmou Ould Mustafa, a journalist who specializes in security matters for Tahalil, a Mauritanian weekly newspaper, said the couple's driver, from Ivory Coast, also disappeared and the car was riddled with bullet holes, pointing to a kidnapping. "They were taken by armed men ... this bears all the marks of al Qaeda as the kidnapping, once again, took place at night and the al Qaeda bases are just a few kilometers, as the bird flies, from where the seizure took place," he added. Although never officially confirmed, experts say ransoms are often paid, but a British hostage was executed in Mali by the group earlier this year. Three Spanish aid workers disappeared in Mauritania last month after an attack on their convoy. Malian security sources believe the trio is being held by al Qaeda's north African wing in Malian territory. 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