<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Mauritania" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of heads of state of Mauritania">President of Mauritania</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maaouya_Ould_Sid'Ahmed_Taya" id="mwAQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya">Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Mauritanian_coup_d'état" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2005 Mauritanian coup d'état">is overthrown</a> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'état" id="mwAQo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coup d'état">military coup</a> while attending the funeral of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fahd of Saudi Arabia">King Fahd</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>.<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_3#cite_note-3" id="mwAQ0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQ4">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt22" class="citation web cs1" id="mwBsQ"><a class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8810648" id="mwBsU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Coup ousts West-leaning leader of Mauritania"</a>. <i id="mwBsY">NBC News</i>. 2005-08-03<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBsc">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBsg">2023-11-15</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt22" class="Z3988" id="mwBsk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=NBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Coup+ousts+West-leaning+leader+of+Mauritania&amp;rft.date=2005-08-03&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fid%2Fwbna8810648&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+3"></span></span>