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Tunisian Forces Foil overnight Terrorist Attack, Kill 6 Gunmen
[ALMANAR.LB] Tunisian security forces killed six "terrorists" overnight near Ben Guerdane after a deadly terrorist attack on the town near the border with Libya, the interior ministry said on Wednesday."Security and army units tonight eliminated five turbans in the Benniri sector" near the frontier, the ministry said late Tuesday. Early Wednesday it revised the toll, saying that a sixth suspect terrorist had been killed overnight. Four Kalashnikov assault rifles were recovered, it added. Tunisian media reports late Tuesday said security forces had surrounded a house where suspected holy warriors were holed up, but this information has yet to be officially confirmed. Benniri is a few kilometers (miles) south of Ben Guerdane which is still under curfew after Monday's dawn attack in which 36 assailants, 12 members of the security forces and seven non-combatants were killed. The authorities said the attack was an unprecedented assault by the so-called '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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group aimed at setting up a new stronghold in the country across the border from Libya. Witnesses reported a massive security presence on Wednesday in Ben Guerdane, a town of 60,000 people. The authorities have warned that mopping up operations after Monday's attack would continue. Prime Minister Habib Essid said on Tuesday that about 50 Death Eaters were believed to have taken part in the assaults on an army barracks and police and National Guard posts. Defense ministry front man Belhassen Oueslati said 17 suspects were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! on Tuesday near a military barracks and handed over to the National Guard for questioning. Khaleej Times adds: Deader count up to 10 Posted by: Fred 2016-03-10 |
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