| inbluevt | Date: Friday, 2013/08/02, 7:36 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The Tunisian army said Friday that it had launched a "huge" land and air operation against Islamist fighters
holed up in the remote mountainous region near the Algerian border where
eight soldiers were killed in an ambush earlier this week.
The Tunisian army on Friday launched a "huge" land and air operation against Islamist militants holed up on a remote mountain near the
Algerian border, the armed forces said."A huge operation, with ground and air units, was launched at dawn to clean up the mountain," armed forces spokesman Taoufik Rahmouni told
Mosaique FM radio.The spokesman said the assault was mounted after clashes on Thursday night between soldiers and "a terrorist group", referring to fugitive
Islamist militants."We have not killed or arrested any terrorists" to date, he said, without being able to give a number for the hunted militants.
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