Mauritania said on Saturday it had arrested former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi who was one of the most prominent figures in the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi and is wanted by the International Criminal Court ICC.\nAl-Senoussi helped direct efforts to quash the rebellion against Gadhafi s rule last year and the ICC has indicted him along with Gadhafi s son Seif al-Islam on charges of crimes against humanity.\nMauritania s state information agency said in a statement that al-Senoussi was arrested at the airport in the capital Nouakchott upon arrival from the Moroccan city of Casablanca. \nIt said he was carrying a fake Malian passport.\nA spokesman for Libya s ruling National Transitional Council Mohammed al-Hareiz said the arrest was not yet confirmed. \nAs Gadhafi s regime crumbled in the second half of 2011 many of the dictator s inner circle reportedly fled from advancing rebels towards the Sahara Desert where the regime had long cultivated ties with desert groups both in Libya and in neighbouring countries.\nGadhafi s son Seif al-Islam was arrested in November by fighters in Libya s remote southern desert. \nHe has been held largely without access to the outside world ever since and Libyan authorities say they want to put him on trial at home despite an arrest warrant issued by the ICC.