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Africa North
ISIS Video Calls for Attacks in Tunisia
2019-07-18
[AnNahar] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group has called for more attacks in Tunisia in a rare propaganda video purportedly filmed by the jihadists in the North African nation.

It comes three weeks after a twin suicide kaboom against police in the capital Tunis claimed by IS killed two people.

The video, shared on IS social media channels on Tuesday night, shows gunnies in balaclavas who pledge allegiance to the jihadists' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

"Your soldiers and your sons in the land of Kairouan are doing well," said one of those filmed who gave the pseudonym Abou Omar al-Tounsi.

The holy city of Kairouan lies in central Tunisia.

Another jihadist using the name Abou Khaled al-Tounsi called for people to "sow terror" in Tunisia.

The video, which was circulated on messaging app Telegram and could not immediately be verified, was said to have been filmed inside the country.

Following Tunisia's 2011 revolution, the country saw a rise in extremism and deadly attacks hit soldiers, police, civilians and foreign tourists.

While the security situation has improved in recent years, the state of emergency implemented in 2015 is still in place.
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