You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Africa North
Tunisia sees Islamist militants exploiting Libya chaos
2013-10-21
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tunisia's Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said Islamist Death Eaters are exploiting anarchy in neighboring Libya to get training and smuggle weapons across North Africa's mostly non-existent borders.

His coalition government is grappling with an Islamist bad boy group known as 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...
, which is one of the most radical to emerge since Tunisia's 2011 uprising against autocratic President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali Ben Ali.
Posted by:Fred

00:00