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| Jihadists Claim Murders In 2013 Of Tunisia Secularists |
| 2014-12-19 |
| [AnNahar] Jihadists who have joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group claimed Thursday the 2013 murder of two secular politicians that plunged Tunisia into crisis, warning of more killings just days before a presidential runoff election. "Yes, tyrants, we're the ones who killed Chokri Belaid and Mohammed Brahmi," Abou Mouqatel, a dual French national wanted for their murders, said in a video released on the Internet. It was not clear where the video was filmed, but Abou Mouqatel claimed they were in an area under the control of IS, which has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq. "We are going to come back and kill several of you. You will not have a quiet life until Tunisia implements Islamic law," added the Lion of Islam, whose real name is Boubakr al-Hakim. Abou Mouqatel appeared along with three other Lion of Islams, all of them dressed in combat uniform and carrying arms, with black jihadist banners waving behind them. "Our message to the tyrants of Tunisia and to their soldiers is this -- between us there will (only) be weapons." Interior ministry front man Mohammed Ali Aroui responded by saying "Tunisians are stronger than these terrorists. They mean nothing to us." Abou Mouqatel, born in Gay Paree in 1983, is considered to be one of the key people organizing the flow of foreign jihadists to Iraq, where he himself has traveled to fight. He was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! in La Belle France for seven years in 2008, but given early release in 2011. The authorities in Tunis estimate that as many as 3,000 Tunisians have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight with jihadist groups including IS, and have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that some will return to carry out attacks at home. Belaid, a fierce critic of the moderate Islamist party Ennahda then in power, was murdered in February 2013, and Brahimi, another opponent of the Islamists, in July of the same year. The attacks, which had not been previously claimed, were blamed by the authorities on the jihadist Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... group. The killing of Belaid triggered deadly protests and a political crisis that brought down Islamist prime minister Hamadi Jebali. Brahmi's murder intensified the crisis, and threatened to derail Tunisia's post-Arab Spring transition until a compromise government was formed in January this year. On Sunday, Tunisians vote in the second round of a presidential election, capping off four years of a sometimes chaotic transition since the 2011 of longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Incumbent Moncef Marzouki faces political veteran Beji Caid Essebsi in the vote -- the first time Tunisians will be allowed to freely elect their president since independence from La Belle France in 1956. The first round, on November 23, saw Essebsi, an 88-year-old who heads the anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party, take 39 percent of the vote. In the video posted Thursday, jihadist Abou Mossaab called on Tunisians to boycott the polls, saying the authorities "are turning you into infidels with these elections". The government, which has been on alert since October, will be deploying tens of thousands of troops and police to guarantee security during the vote. Shafik Sarsar, head of Tunisia's electoral commission, recognized Thursday that there were "possible and probable dangers," but added that this "should not change the atmosphere of the elections." In addition to the jihadist threat, major challenges remain for Tunisia. The North African nation's economy is struggling to recover from the upheaval of the revolution and there are fears that widespread joblessness will cause social unrest. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Although they are sociopaths, they are admirably honest about their desires for mass murder. I think we can all count on them accomplish their promised murders as well as penetrating some genious rapes as well as some miscellaneous gross acts of barbarous cruelty along the way. I suggest we seek to blow their brains out at earliest convenience. Seems the best outcome for all concerned. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2014-12-19 01:11 |