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| Tunisia says resort gunman was trained in Libya |
| 2015-07-01 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The gunman who killed 38 tourists in Tunisia received weapons training from jihadis in Libya, a top official said Tuesday, as the president admitted security services were unprepared for the attack. On Friday, a student identified as 23-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui pulled a Kalashnikov assault rifle from inside a beach umbrella and went on a bloody rampage at the five-star Riu Imperial Marhaba hotel in Port El Kantaoui near Sousse. Secretary of state for security Rafik Chelli told AFP Rezgui had been in Libya at the same time as the two authors of a March attack at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis that killed 21 tourists and a policeman. Both attacks were claimed by ISIS, which controls large swathes of Iraq and Syria. "It is confirmed that he (Rezgui) went to Libya illegally. He was trained in Sabratha (west of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... )," Chelli said. "They were away at the same time ... In Sabratha, there is only one camp that trains young Tunisians," he said, although he could not confirm whether they had trained together. The camp was run by the jihadi 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... h group, Chelly added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Because nobody learns anything in Tunisia. Somebody dig up QoDaffy and kill him again. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-07-01 07:20 |
| #1 Kinetic action. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-01 01:54 |