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| Tunisia cracks down on terrorists |
| 2013-09-11 |
| [MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian security forces on Monday (September 9th) killed two 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 Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active... bully boyz and tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! two others during a raid in a western suburb of the capital. The jihadists died after a heavy exchange of gunfire, the interior ministry said. ' Mohamed Aouadi, the salafist movement's military leader, and fellow high-ranking official Mohamed Khiari are now in jug, a ministry source told AFP. The "dangerous terrorists" were "involved" in getting weapons from Libya to Tunisia, the interior ministry said. Two days before the operation outside Tunis, security forces thwarted a plot by a jihadist recruiting network with Libya ties. "The national guards' counterterrorism units have recently dismantled a network engaged in arranging the travel of Tunisian young men to Libya to join training camps supervised by radical religious groups," the ministry said on Saturday. "Twenty-one elements, including a foreigner, were arrested," the ministry said. Some of the suspects in the liquidation of opposition politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, as well as the Jebel Chaambi soldiers' slayings, received training in jihadist camps in Libya, the ministry confirmed last week. The weapons used in the liquidations were also muggled from Libya, the ministry added. "Armed networks in Libya, Tunisia and Algeria have had ties for a long time," international relations professor Mohamed Ben Zekri said. "These ties were even strengthened following the Arab Spring revolutions." "After these jihadist groups succeeded in recruiting a group of Maghreb youths to train them to fight in Syria, they are now trying to attract more youths to prepare them for their next terrorist operations," he added. The Tunisian government has recently received warnings on al-Qaeda. The country is no longer a "land of preaching" for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the National Union of Tunisian Security Forces Syndicates (UNSFST) confirmed Friday, based on recent intelligence. AQIM is expected to declare Tunisia a "land of jihad" and encourage snuffies to settle in the country, the security union said. Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... Algerian security services gave their Tunisian counterparts a list of terror suspects without criminal records who may attempt to enter the country as Eid al-Adha tourists, Tunisie Numerique reported on Monday. Security services are reportedly concerned about possible attacks in Tunisia on September 11th. The alert followed the recent discovery of a letter from AQIM chief Abdelmalik Droukdel ... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.... , who called for attacks on Tunisian cities to reduce pressure on the jihadists holed up in Jebel Chaambi. Based on intelligence from the Droukdel letter, Algerian security authorities reportedly asked their Tunisian counterparts to tighten control on rents of flats and houses in cities. Silent cells have acted by renting flats and houses using fake names and identities, a source told Mosaique FM on condition of anonymity. Tunisian citizens are bracing for the new threat. "Real jihad today is to struggle against the snuffies and to fight and kill them because they are bloody criminals and bandidos," retiree Karim Mokrani said. "Their only goal is to destabilise countries and destroy their young people." |
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