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Family forgives son's al-Qaida linked killers
AP
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - The family of an American man who was slain by extremists linked to al-Qaida while doing humanitarian work in Mauritania said yesterday it has forgiven his killers.
Chris Leggett, 39, was shot dead in the Mauritanian capital on June 23, not far from the school he helped run which taught computer skills to local prisoners.
An Arab TV station aired a statement issued by a North African al-Qaida group spokesman who said the group killed Leggett because he was allegedly trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.
Leggett's family in the US released a statement to reporters in Mauritania yesterday saying in French: "In the spirit of love, we forgive those that took the life of our remarkable son ... and we simply ask that the law is applied to those that killed him."
Leggett is to be buried today in Cleveland, Tennessee.
The Cleveland Daily Banner reports that he had spent seven years in Mauritania and that he is survived by a wife and four children.
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