TUNIS (AFP) – The fragile security situation in Tunisia, where radical Islamists are blamed for a wave of violence in recent months, makes it necessary to extend the state of emergency, Defence Minister Rachid Sabbagh said on Friday.
http://www.modernghana.com/news/465583/1/tunisias-state-of-emergency-must-be-extended-sabba.html
2013-05-22 22:10
Tunis – Ansar al-Sharia spokespeson Seifeddine Rais, detained in the Tunisian city of Kairouan at the weekend as police enforced a government ban on its annual congress, was released on bail on Wednesday, the Salafist group said.
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Tunisia-Salafist-gets-bail-20130522
TUNIS, May 20, 2013 (AFP)
The fugitive leader of Ansar al-Sharia, the radical Islamist group in Tunisia, said his supporters cannot be defeated despite their “persecution,” in a recording posted online late Sunday after bloody clashes with police.
http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/05/91413/tunisia-salafist-leader-says-group-cannot-be-defeated/
3:10AM BST 20 May 2013
The confrontations infuriated moderate Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, who for the first time linked the Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group which is considered close to al-Qaeda to “terrorism”.
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