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| AQIM claim Tunisia attack |
| 2014-06-17 |
| [MAGHAREBIA] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Friday (June 13th) grabbed credit for last month's attack on the home of Tunisia's interior minister. Lotfi Ben Jeddou was not at his Kasserine residence at the time of the May 27th incident but four coppers died at the scene. In a statement posted to a jihadi web forum, AQIM said it targeted Ben Jeddou because of his alert issued last year against jihad annikah ...Islamic whoredom. Proper Moslem women are expected to engage in 20-minute marriageswith heroic jihadis for the greater glory of Allen. Naturally, the heroic jihadis are expected to make a contribution to the holy men running the operation, say, twenty bucks or so.... accusation and his alleged "apostasy". For the first time, the terror group said that it was responsible for killing Tunisian troops last year at Jebel Chaambi. Al-Qaeda was "trying to sow the idea that it has might and it can strike when and where it wants", analyst Alaya Allani told Magharebia. What should concern security agencies is how to develop an intelligence system to avoid a repeat of the assault on the residence of the minister, Allani said. "The system needs a radical revision and this cannot be achieved without the appointment of leaders with proven competence and independence," he said. According to Fathi Mouelhi, who monitors media sites used by terrorist groups, "This statement is different from previous ones made by this organization, both in form and vocabulary." Mouelhi warned of AQIM's ability "to penetrate the minds of enthusiastic young people through the use of statements supported by the traditions of the prophet and Qur'anic verses to spread a misconception that what they are doing is a service to Islam". "We cannot talk about confronting terrorism without confronting these organizations' financial resources," Tunisian researcher Noureddine Mbarki said. "The terrorist threat became more dangerous in Libya after these jihadists took control of economic capabilities," he added. "In djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIS) also managed to put its hand on vast fortunes. So whenever they increase their financial resources, their danger increases too," Mbarki explained. Social researcher Salim Hajji noted the timing of the AQIM statement. It was the first of its kind since the start of the terrorist attacks in Tunisia. "Why didn't they claim the most dangerous operation they have conducted in Tunisia? Last Ramadan, they slit the throats of nine soldiers of various ranks without uttering a word," he noted. "Does issuing a statement at this time mean that they are suffering, hence in need to confirm that they haven't lost their strength yet?" he asked. |
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