| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Africa North | |
| Tunisia says 17 held this month in 'terror' sweep | |
| 2015-11-18 | |
| [AlAhram] Tunisian security forces have detained nearly 20 people this month during "anti-terrorist" operations, foiling attacks on security buildings and hotels, a government source said on Tuesday. "Seventeen people have been tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... since the beginning of November in several security operations," the source told AFP. Those held, whose identities were not revealed, were preparing attacks on hotels or buildings used by the security forces, the source added. Without elaborating, the source said several of them had spent time abroad with members of jihadist organizations such as 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. The news comes after the interior ministry said Monday seven women have been arrested for posting propaganda on the Internet on behalf of the Tunisian affiliate of ISIS, Jund al-Khilafa. It also follows an anti-terrorist sweep Sunday on Mount Mghilla in the centre of the country after the gruesome beheading there by jihadists of a 16-year-old shepherd. One soldier and an alleged jihadist were killed during that operation, the defence ministry said. No group has yet grabbed credit for the shepherd's murder. Thousands of young Tunisians have travelled to Iraq, Syria and Libya to fight alongside Islamic Lion of Islams, according to the authorities in the North African country. At home, ISIS has said it was behind two attacks targeting foreigners -- at the National Bardo Museum in March, killing 21 tourists and a policeman, and at a hotel in Sousse in June, killing 38 tourists. Dozens of members of the security forces have also been killed by faceless myrmidons since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring. The Tunisian authorities say they have been particularly affected by the chaos in neighbouring Libya, where ISIS has established a presence. Tunisia has begun building a border wall some 200 kilometres (125 miles) long, with the aim of stemming the flow of contraband weapons across the frontier.
| |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Libya for training camps, battlefields in Western Europe? They certainly can't retreat to Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, or Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, all of whom are already hard pressed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-18 11:43 |
| #2 More likely Western Europe. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-11-18 08:57 |
| #1 It now seems clear that IS cannot continue to sustain personnel losses it has suffered in 2015. Mosul should be lost in the next six months, and Russia will likely bomb Rakka back to the stone age. Thus, look for IS to seek a change of venue, most likely western Libya. |
| Posted by: Spomong Bourbon8696 2015-11-18 05:19 |