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| Tunisia Arrests 5 Salafist 'Terrorists' over Attacks |
| 2013-10-31 |
[An Nahar] Tunisian security forces nabbed... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... five Salafist "terrorists" implicated in two failed attacks on Wednesday in resort towns on Tunisia's eastern coast, the interior ministry announced. "The interior ministry's special forces have arrested five gunnies with direct links to the assailants who tried to carry out simultaneous terrorist attacks in Sousse and Monastir," a statement said. Ministry front man Mohammed Ali Laroui said those behind the attacks belonged to 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... , Tunisia's main Salafist movement, which the authorities have designated a "terrorist organization" with ties to al-Qaeda. He did not specify whether the 18-year-old man enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on Wednesday morning as he was trying to carry out a suicide kaboom at the tomb of former president Habib Bourguiba in Monastir was among the five arrested. Police also seized "a large quantity of explosives" in a clifftop house near the marina in the resort town, according to local radio station Shems FM. And police were sweeping the area looking for an accomplice to the would-be bomber. In addition to the thwarted attack in Monastir, a suspected jihadist went kaboom!on a beach in Sousse after guards chased him from a hotel when he tried to enter through a back door. |
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