Obama briefed on Tunisia, France, Kuwait attacks
[Al Ahram] US President Barack Obama
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has been briefed on a spree of bloody terror attacks hitting Tunisia, La Belle France and Kuwait on Friday, a White House official said.
The trio of Ramadan-time attacks in three countries across three continents has been blamed on radical Islamic groups.
In La Belle France, a man was beheaded at an American-owned gas factory in the southeast of the country.
A gunman shot up tourists visiting a Tunisian beach resort, leaving at least 27 people dead, including foreigners.
In Kuwait City, a jacket wallah went kaboom! during prayers at a Shia mosque killing more than a dozen people, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.
Posted by: Fred 2015-06-27 |