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| Tunisia to Set Up Cells to Combat Qaida Threat |
| 2013-03-28 |
| [An Nahar] Tunisia announced on Wednesday it was setting up crisis cells to combat "terrorist activity," after the United States warned that al-Qaeda was seeking to establish a base in the country. "We have launched the creation of crisis cells to monitor terrorist activities on the border (with Libya and Algeria) and in the interior, faced with the rise of the radical Salafist movement and the existence of recruitment networks," Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou told parliament. He said those cells would be under the control of Tunisia's Supreme Security Council and would also gather information on networks enrolling young Tunisians to fight in Syria. |
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