Nothing gets past Asharq Al-AwsatTunis/Algiers – Dozens of Islamist militants, pertinent to the attack signal that came from the mosque, stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan to hit army and police posts in street battles that lit the dawn sky with tracer bullets.
Reassuring the residents that they were ISIS, and that they came to save the town near the Libyan border from what they called “tyrant” army; militants used a megaphone to chant “God is Great”. Among them, Most were Tunisians themselves, with local accents, and even some familiar faces, officials and witnesses to Monday’s attack said.