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Tunisia Arrests 12 Suspected IS Members, Dismantles Cells
[AnNahar] Police in Tunisia have juggedDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 12 suspected members of 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and seized bomb making materials since a suicide kaboom last month, the interior ministry said Friday. The authorities have also "dismantled four 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...(Sunni myrmidon) sleeper cells in several parts of Tunisia," the ministry said in a statement. The announcement follows an attack by 30-year-oldjacket wallah'> The attack went unclaimed but the Tunisian authorities said the suicide bomber had sworn allegiance to IS. Police have arrested 12 people suspected of supporting IS, an interior ministry front man told AFP, without specifying where and when the arrests were made, nor the suspects' links to the perpetrator of October's attack in Tunis. The suicide bomber had contact with IS officials "inside and outside the country, and liaised with them over the internet," the ministry said in its statement. The IS officials had taught the bomber how to make bombs, and she built the one used in the attack, the statement said. A laboratory producing explosives and electronic components has also been uncovered in a Tunis suburb, the ministry said. The four dismantled cells are suspected of having been in contact "with terrorist officials entrenched in the Tunisian mountains to organize a series of attacks... aimed at sensitive targets with weapons, a car, poison or remote explosives," the statement said. Investigators confiscated "a very large quantity of explosive and chemical products, along with a drone equipped for remote bombings," the statement added, without specifying where the haul was found. In a separate statement late on Thursday, the interior ministry said a police patrol had been targeted by an gang in the middle of Kasserine, a marginalized city in western Tunisia. A passerby was shot and maimed, the ministry said. The attack was claimed by IS in a statement on its Telegram account, saying its fighters had opened fire on the patrol. Thousands of Tunisians have joined jihadist groups fighting in Iraq, Syria and neighboring Libya. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-01 |
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