Posted on 01/18/2007 4:12:39 PM PST by pissant
TUNIS, Tunisia — Islamic extremists involved in a deadly fire fight with police this month had blueprints of foreign embassies and documents naming foreign envoys, Tunisia's official news agency quoted the interior minister as saying Friday.
Interior Minister Rafik Haj Kacem described the extremists as "terrorists" in a closed door meeting with members of Tunisia's governing party, the TAP news agency reported.
It was the first time authorities had made available official information on the Jan. 3 confrontation with police that left 14 people dead — two of them members of the security forces.
Run with an iron fist, this country of some 10 million people, a tourist haven for Europeans, has largely been spared Islamic extremist violence. However, 21 people — mostly German tourists — were killed in a 2002 suicide attack on a synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba. Investigators linked the attack to Al Qaeda.
Fifteen people were arrested following the Jan. 3 clash in Soliman, a town 25 miles south of Tunis, the capital. An initial clash with security forces on Dec. 23 left two dead and two police officers injured. The minister said three police officers were injured but it was not immediately clear whether that was in addition to the two injured in December.
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Even that is too kind.
Wow - I hope they had an arrest warrant.
How dare he not only speak ill of the dead, but go so far as to slander them when they can no longer defend themselves?
It's not like they had bombs hidden in their turbans, or were threatening the "journalist" writing this bilge.
They just insist on a strict interpretation of the Koran, which doesn't allow for the continued existence of anyone who disagrees with them.
Shi'ite?
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