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| Tunisia police raid kills three 'terrorists': Ministry |
| 2014-03-18 |
| [Al Ahram] Tunisian security forces on Monday killed three suspected jihadists implicated in attacks last months that left four people dead, including two coppers, the interior ministry said. Special police units surrounded the house of a "takfirist" ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... , or Mohammedan bad boy, in the northwest Jendouba region near the Algerian border at around 0200 GMT, ministry front man Mohammed Ali Aroui told news hounds. "The terrorist group threw a grenade at the agents... and an exchange of fire followed between the security forces and these members of a banned movement," he said, alluding to the radical Islamist group 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 Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... . Three forces of Evil were killed in the clash, "one of whom was very dangerous," and two police agents were maimed. Two of those killed were Tunisian and the third was foreign, possibly Algerian, Aroui said. Six others, including women, were tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for providing logistical support to the group. |
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