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Tunisia Arrests Cell ‘Plotting Attacks’ on U.S. Officers

Tunisia Arrests Cell ‘Plotting Attacks’ on U.S. Officers

http://www.themedialine.org/news/new...p?NewsID=25694

'..........The detainees, two of whom are officers in the Tunisian Air Force, planned to assassinate American military officers who visit the country periodically for military training and joint exercises with the Tunisian army, the German Deutsche Press Agency (DPA) reported. ......"

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Dr. Jack Kalpakian, a political expert at Morocco’s Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, said he was not surprised to hear news of the terror sweep.

“Tunisia’s government has followed a very secularist policy and has not been very sympathetic towards any kind of political religious expression,” he told The Media Line.

“While in other countries in North Africa expressions of Islamism are tolerated to some extent, Tunisia represses these voices,” he said.

He makes it sound like Tunisia arrested people for planning a version of Wednesday night Bible study, as opposed to a plot to murder people.