[AnNahar] Tunisia paid tribute on Monday to six members of its security forces killed the day before along the border with Algeria in the country's bloodiest jihadist attack in more than two years.The attack comes as Tunisia prepares for what it hopes will be a surge in tourism after a spate of jihadist attacks in 2015 sent visitor numbers plunging.
After the ceremony at the national guard base close to the capital, hundreds of people watched as several of the dead were laid to rest.
A large procession led by members of the armed forces accompanied the body of guardsman Arbi Guizeni through the Tunis suburb of Douar Hicher.
The six national guard members were killed, and three others maimed, when their cars were attacked Sunday morning with an improvised bomb in the Ain Sultan area of the Jendouba border province.
The three maimed guards were transferred to a military hospital in Tunis and their condition was stable on Monday, said guard front man Colonel Houssemeddine Jebabli.
He said search operations launched Sunday were continuing but no arrests had been made.
Okba Ibn Nafaa,
| ...on occasion spelt Uqba bin Nafi Brigade, they’ve fought since 2012 with security forces in Tunisia's mountainous interior. In 2014 they joined forces with Ansar al Sharia to form Al Qaeda in Tunisia, although later they also supported ISIS and their big attacks were claimed by both. At that time the new organization was headed by Bejaia native and explosives expert Khaled Chaieb (aka Lokman Abou Sakhr). Throughout their existence they’ve encouraged people to go abroad for jihad. .... |
Okba Ibn Nafaa and the Tunisian branch of 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, Jund al-Khilafa (Soldiers of the Caliphate), are active in the mountainous border region where the attack took place.