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Tunisians defuse terrorist 'car bombs' on Tatouine Libya border
2015-10-02
[Libya Herald] Tunisian security forces appear to have foiled an attempt to infiltrate boom-mobiles as well as arms and explosives from Libya in an incident about which details remain slight.

Three vehicles without registration plates were yesterday trying to cross the border ditch near Dhehiba in the eastern Tatouine governate. They were intercepted and fired on by members of the Tunisian National Guard. One vehicle was able to flee back across the border into Libya but two others were seized.

At this point details become murky. Tunisian Ministry of Defence front man Belhassen Weslati told local radio that one of the captured vehicles had been booby-trapped with a grenade and an boom belt. This device was successfully defused.

Rooters however has reported that both vehicles were rigged as boom-mobiles and also contained ten Kalashnikovs, RPGs, explosives, Libyan telephone cards and documents with the insignia of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
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It is unclear how many, if any, of the occupants of the two vehicles were detained. Tatouine is widely believed to have become a staging post for holy warriors moving between Libya and Tunisia.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Scum, villany and muzz, move along this is not the article your wuz serchin four.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-10-02 19:57  

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