2006–2007 Tunisia clashes

On 23 December 2006 and 3 January 2007, Tunisian security forces engaged in clashes with members of a group with connections to the Islamist terror group Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in the towns of Soliman and Hammam-Lif south of the capital Tunis, killing more than a dozen people. Quotes Investigations have allowed us to seize quantities of homemade explosives, plans of certain foreign embassies, as well as documents containing the names of certain foreign diplomats resident in Tunisia The intelligence services know these people, their names and their Salafist terrorist tendencies. Tunisia Says Suspects in Gun Battle Had Blueprints of Embassies External link Category:Tunisia