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| Tunisia declares war on terrorism |
| 2013-08-09 |
| [MAGHAREBIA] Jebel Chaambi in Kasserine province is no longer the only theatre of operations. Residents of the Tunis suburb of Ouardia were awakened Sunday (August 4th) at dawn by the arrival of security units there to arrest six terror suspects. One was killed, another was maimed and the rest surrendered. The maimed suspect had been a doctor before he joined the terrorist group, while one of those tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! was a former police agent who resigned in 1998. He was involved in the Solimane terrorism case. He is also a suspect in Chokri Belaid's liquidation. "The security agencies and competent authorities are proceeding with their crackdown on the bully boyz to dismantle and eliminate them once and for all," Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said on Sunday. He also demanded that bully boyz turn themselves and weapons in, telling them, "You will have no future in this world or in the afterlife." A day earlier, the coastal city of Sousse witnessed confrontations between security elements and a terrorist group fortified in a flat. The festivities ended with the arrest of two bully boyz while a third, believed to be involved in the liquidation of politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, managed to escape. There are about 50 terrorist cells in Tunisia, according to Attounissia, "including active cells and other sleeper cells. The number of members of such cells is about 600, mostly radical elements." Some of the bully boyz tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by security forces might belong to the Oqba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, which seeks to join al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said on Saturday. There have been several scenes of blasts, arrests, and explosives found around the country in the last few days. On Monday, the National Guard arrested a salafist allegedly involved in the attack on the US embassy in Tunis, Tunisie Numerique reported Monday. Furthermore, there is information indicating that government officials are threatened with liquidation, Ben Jeddou told Mosaique FM last Tuesday. "I'm personally threatened by Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... 's leader in Tunisia Abou Iyadh, and we have a list of people threatened with liquidation, including intellectuals and journalists," he said. On her blog, researcher Olfa Youssef commented on the death threats against her: "There have been many warnings recently urging me to be cautious," she wrote. "These are perhaps the advantages of simple spiritual faith, to always remember what God Almighty said, 'And if Allah should afflict you with harm, then there is none to remove it but He; and if He intends good to you, there is none to repel His grace'." "I will continue to resist the exploiters of religion until the last drop of my blood and ink," she added. Nessma TV political analyst Sofiene Ben Hmida was provided with tight security protection like his colleague Sofiene Ben Farhat and blogger Lina Ben Mhenni. "Death threats haven't changed any of my positions," Ben Hmida told Magharebia. "I'm proceeding with my work as usual, but my life style has changed because of the security protection I'm now receiving." |
| Posted by:Fred |