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| Tunisia Hunts Terrorists after Deadly Raid near Libya Border | |
| 2016-03-09 | |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Tunisian security forces pressed a search for murderous Moslems near the Libyan border on Tuesday after a deadly raid the authorities described as an "unprecedented" assault by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group ISIL (so-called 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.... in Iraq and Levant). Prime Minister Habib Essid said around 50 holy warriors were believed to have taken part in Monday's coordinated attack on an army barracks and police and National Guard posts in the border town of Ben Guerdane. He said that 36 attackers had been killed and seven captured in a fierce battle that also saw the deaths of seven civilians and 12 security force personnel. Essid told a news conference that the He said three civilians and 14 security personnel were also maimed. Interior ministry front man Yasser Mesbah said the search for any He said a nighttime curfew imposed in the town after the attack had been well respected and that the situation was "stable". On Monday, Essid said that the operation's aim had been to create a "Daesh [Islamic State] (ISIL) emirate" in Ben Guerdane. President Beji Caid Essebsi said the "unprecedented" Takfiri attack was "maybe aimed at controlling" the border region and vowed to "exterminate these rats". Residents told AFP the assailants appeared to be natives of the region. They stopped people, checked their ID cards apparently to seek out members of the security forces, and announced their brief takeover of Ben Guerdane as "liberators". It was the second deadly clash in the border area in less than a week as Tunisia battles to prevent the large number of its citizens who have joined ISIL in Libya from returning to carry out attacks at home.
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Tuesday near a military barracks and handed over to the National Guard for questioning. On Tuesday the authorities said that "large quantities" of arms and ammunition had been recovered. | |
| Posted by:Fred |