Tunisia
– ANSAR AL-SHARIA IN TUNISIA
Abu Ayadh al-Tunisi, who had previously co-founded the Tunisian Combat Group with Tarek Maaroufi in 06/2000, founded Ansar Al-Sharia in Tunisia in late 04/2011. Continue reading
– SECOND TUNISIAN OPPOSITION LEADER, MOHAMED BRAHMI, ASSASSINATED.
Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisia's opposition politician, has been shot dead in Tunis in front of his house in Ariana, on Thursday 07/25/2013 morning. Continue reading
– TUNISIAN SECULAR LEADER SHOKRI BELAID ASSASSINATED
a leading Tunisian opposition figure, Shokri Belaid, leader of the left-leaning opposition Democratic Patriots party, has been killed in the capital Tunis, on Wednesday 02/06/2013. Continue reading
– THOUSANDS RALLY FOR “SHARIAA LAW” IN TUNISIA
At least 8,000 Islamists staged a mass demonstration in central Tunis, on Sunday 03/25/2012, in the latest show of force to demand the adoption of Islamic law - Shariaa. Continue reading
– RASHID GHANNOUCHI BACK IN TUNISIA
The leader of Tunisia's main Islamist movement Rashid Ghannounchi, 69, has returned home, on Sunday 01/30/2011. Continue reading
– JASMINE REVOLUTION
The Jasmine Revolution - Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled the country, on Friday 01/14/2011 evening, to Saudi Arabia after two weeks of violent demonstrations. Continue reading
– TUNISIA JAILE 9 FOR LINKS TO TERROR
A Tunisian court jailed, on Friday 10/16/2009, nine men for up to 6 years for trying to join Al Qaeda fighters in Iraq, having military training outside Tunisia and recruiting others. Continue reading
– BOUBAKER EL-HAKIM
Boubaker el-Hakim was born in 1984 in Tunisia. He grew up in a suburb of Paris in a poor broken family. Continue reading
– MOHAMMED ALI HARRATH
Mohamed Ali Harrath advised the Metropolitan’s Muslim Contact Unit in the London police on how to combat extremism, Metropolitan police admitted, on Monday 12/15/2008 Continue reading
– NASSIM SAADI
Nassim Saadi was born in Haidra, Tunisia on 11/30/1974. He entered Italy at some unspecified time between 1996 and 1999, held a residence permit issued for “family reasons” by the Bologna police authority in 12/2001. Continue reading