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Tunisian premier vows terror crackdown
[MAGHAREBIA] Interim Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa on Monday (April 21st) pledged to eliminate the terrorist groups that threaten the country."We are going after terrorism before it comes to us," Jomaa said. The premier spoke after a meeting of the National Security Council that covered counter-terror efforts, particularly the fight against snuffies in Jebel Chaambi, TAP reported. According to Jomaa, the security situation in Tunisia has improved "and the operations represent a qualitative leap in addressing the issue of terrorism. There is no place for terrorism in Tunisia and that is the approach clearly envisaged by various teams of military and security forces in our country". Defence ministry front man Colonel Major Taoufik Rahmouni on Monday told Mosaique FM that festivities had taken place between bully boyz and the Tunisian army in Jebel Chaambi. Rahmouni did not deny reports that three bad boyz were potted during the festivities. On April 17, the defence ministry front man announced during a presser that the reasons for declaring Jebel Chaambi and adjacent mountains a zone of military operations was "the growing movement of terrorist groups and the growing activity of organised crime networks in the trade of weapons and ammunition and the smuggling of hazardous materials across these areas". Last Friday a Tunisian soldier was killed and another maimed when a landmine detonated in the Jebel Chaambi area near the Algerian border. TAP reported that the kaboom occurred when a military vehicle passed a terrorist camp inside the closed military zone, killing the driver and wounding another. "The battles taking place in the Chaambi area now between the Tunisian army and bully boyz are the final decisive battle, especially since accessing information about the concentration of terrorist groups will greatly help to eliminate them," predicted retired Brigadier General Mokhtar Ben Nasr. Posted by: Fred 2014-04-24 |
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