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| Armed Tunisian police swarm streets of tourist towns |
| 2015-06-29 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Hundreds of armed police patrolled the streets of Tunisia's beach resorts on June 28 and the government said it will deploy hundreds more inside hotels after the Islamist krazed killer attack in Sousse that killed 39 foreigners, mostly Britons. Thousands of tourists have left Tunisia since the attack on June 26, which has shocked the North African country that relies heavily on tourism for jobs and foreign currency revenues. Britannia's Foreign Office warned late on June 27 that Islamist bully boyz may launch further attacks in Tunisia after a gunman opened fire on the Imperial Marhaba resort in the deadliest such attack in Tunisia's modern history. At least 15 Britons were among the dead and maimed along with German, Irish and Belgian nationals in Sousse. The health ministry says at least 40 people were maimed without giving any details of their nationalities. "We are going to deploy 1,000 armed police to protect hotels and tourists," Tunisian Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli told news hounds late on Saturday night. Since its 2011 uprising to oust Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has made a peaceful transition to democracy with a new constitution and free elections. It is seen as a model for the region. But its young democracy has also been tested by the rise of hardline Islamist movements, some of which have turned to violence. The army has been fighting a campaign against pockets of Islamist bully boyz near the Algerian border. State news agency TAP said gunnies raided houses for food in El Kef, a northeastern city about 160 km (100 miles) from the coast and 40 km from the Algerian border, before heading to the mountains that separate the two countries. TAP gave no further details. 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) has claimed the Sousse attack. But officials say the gunman, named as Saif Rezgui, was not any watchlist of known potential krazed killers. One source said he appeared to have been radicalised over the last six months by recruiters. It was the second major attack in Tunisia this year, following an Islamist krazed killer assault on the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March when gunnies killed a group of foreign visitors as they arrived by bus. |
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