[MAGHAREBIA] A Tunis court on Monday (September 2nd) issued an international arrest warrant for Seif Allah ben Hassine (aka Abou Iyadh), Attounissia reported. The warrant is reportedly related to the Jebel Chaambi violence and weapons caches discovered in Médenine and Douar Hicher.On August 21st, an arrest warrant was issued for the Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active...
leader in connection with the liquidation of opposition politician Chokri Belaid.
On August 27th, Tunisia officially designated the hard-line salafist movement as a terrorist organization tied to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).