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| Hundreds Protest in Tunisia against 'Terrorism' after 4 Killed |
| 2014-02-18 |
| [An Nahar] More than a thousand protesters gathered on Monday in the Tunisian town of Jendouba to condemn the weekend killings of four people by suspected Islamist bully boys. "Tunisia is free, terrorism out," and "Faithful to our deaders," were among the slogans chanted by the protesters outside the governor's office in the town in northwestern Tunisia, before marching down the main street, Agence La Belle France Presse reported. Tunisia has been rocked by sporadic attacks blamed on bully boy jihadists since the 2011 revolution that toppled a decades-old dictatorship and touched off Arab Spring uprisings across the region. The protesters expressed their support for the security forces, stopping before two police posts, chanting the national anthem and shouting "we are with you." On Saturday, a group of gunnies who had set up a roadblock in the Jendouba area, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Algerian border, rubbed out a civilian and a prison warden as their car approached, the interior ministry said. When a National Guard patrol was sent to investigate, the snuffies again opened fire, killing two coppers and wounding another two. The gang consisted of three Tunisians and two Algerians, according to the police. Much of the deadly violence witnessed in Tunisia since the January 2011 uprising has been blamed on 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 Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... , a hardline Salafist movement accused of having links to al-Qaeda. The government has said Ansar al-Sharia was behind the separate liquidations last year of two secular politicians, killings that plunged Tunisia into political turmoil, but the group never grabbed credit for those or any other attacks. For more than a year, the security forces have been battling Islamist snuffies hiding out in the remote border regions of western Tunisia, notably in the Chaambi |
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