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NOVEMBER 2024

ISIS Cells Attack Army Patrol In Western Tunisia

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ISIS Cells Attack Army Patrol In Western Tunisia

A Tunisian soldier holds his position during an exercise along the frontier with Libya in Sabkeht Alyun

A Tunisian service member was injured on March 1 when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded near a unit of the Tunisian military that was patrolling the Orbata mount in the western province of Gafsa.

The Arabesque news outlet said that the injured soldier was transported via a helicopter to the military hospital in the capital to receive proper medical treatment.

According to several Tunisian sources, the targeted military unite was participating in a security operation against terrorist cells who are hiding in the region.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on the patrol in a short statement released by its news agency, Amaq. The attack confirms that ISIS cells are indeed operating in the Orbata mount area.

Last year, Tunisia witnessed several terrorist attacks. On October 29, a female suicide bomber blew herself up in a patrol of the Tunisian Police in the middle of the capital injuring several people.

Tunisia has become a heartland for different terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda and ISIS, following a success of the revolution in 2011. Some of these terrorist groups even managed to establish hideouts in the western part of the country, where they remain a threat to this day.

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Smaug

We all had high hopes for Tunisia after they accomplished that rarity in the Muslim world of a fair election. But infighting between many groups, not just ISIS, is causing that to break down.

BL

Democracy is a scam. All scientific studies have proven that the vast majority of people think and believe based on what they have seen in the mass media. In other words whoever controls the mass media controls the outcome of elections.

Smaug

You wish. Now shut up and vote.

Sinbad2

This is what Americans call a sales pitch, tomorrow American/Israeli/UK arms suppliers will be offering weapons at never to be repeated prices.

You can call me Al

“To you my boy, this great gun, for you my boy 1,500 US $, or pay in shekels, we give discount in shekel”.

BL

Nothing is compatible with Democracy. Democracy is a scam and must be gotten rid of everywhere. It’s based on the decision of the ignorant mob.

H Eccles

So… Tunisia has been added to the jew’s list for takedown..

You can call me Al

Ahhhh, that is where you moved them to Yanker boys ?, to reinforce the others ?

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You can call me Al

So if I stated my long lasting theory that WWIII will be carried out between Christianity vs Islam – what would you say ?.

You can call me Al

Thanks for your reply.

Sinbad2

So why has the US deployed ISIS to Tunisia? Phosphate, Tunisia has phosphate, and the US wants it. Just another American armed holdup.

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