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| Tight security at Tunis airport for Salafist sheikh arrival |
| 2013-04-05 |
| [Al Ahram] Extra security forces were deployed Thursday at Tunis airport after radical Islamist websites called for a big turnout to welcome a Salafist sheikh evicted from Egypt for falsifying travel papers for jihadists. Police manned checkpoints around the airport to keep Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... away from the building, an AFP photographer reported, while armed police with dogs patrolled the arrivals hall. No incidents were reported by late morning, except the arrest of a bearded man. Imed ben Salah, also known as Abou Abdallah Ettounsi, was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on March 21 and ordered out of Egypt, according to local press reports, for organising the falsification of documents to help jihadists travel to combat zones. His flight to Tunis was due to arrive early on Thursday afternoon. Since its January 2011 revolution, Tunisia has witnessed a proliferation of jihadist groups, which have been blamed for a wave of deadly attacks, notably on the US embassy in Tunis last September that left four of the assailants dead. Tunisia's government has warned of jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda's north African franchise infiltrating the country's borders and trafficking weapons, notably to northern Mali. The judiciary opened an investigation in mid-March into a network recruiting and sending Tunisians to fight Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's forces alongside Islamist Death Eaters. |
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