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Clashes erupt in Tunisia after radical movement’s conference banned
TheStar.com ^ | Published on Sun May 19 2013

Posted on 05/19/2013 8:17:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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About 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference at Tunisia’s main religious centre in the central city of Kairouan by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country.

Security checkpoints were in place and patrols were out in the streets after authorities declared the conference by the ultraconservative Muslim group Ansar al-Shariah a threat “to security and public order.”

Police clashed with tens of thousands of members of Ansar al-Sharia who had intended to go to the main rally. Protesters threw stones at police, who fired tear gas in response. Kairouan hospital reported that five civilians and four policemen were injured.

Far more serious was a confrontation between police and supporters of Ansar al-Shariah in the low-income Tunis suburb of Ettadamon, where police fired tear gas and shots into the air to disperse about 500 stone-throwing protesters, some of whom set fire to cars, lowered the Tunisian flag and replaced it with a black Al Qaeda banner

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TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islamists; islamofacists; tunisia

1 posted on 05/19/2013 8:17:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Next time use live ammunition and don’t shoot at the sky.


2 posted on 05/19/2013 8:19:15 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Perfect Gatling gun application here.


3 posted on 05/19/2013 8:34:41 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: BenLurkin

More offensive YouTube movies?


4 posted on 05/19/2013 8:40:19 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
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To: rfp1234

BINGO!


5 posted on 05/20/2013 6:52:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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