20 November 2018

Tunisia bomber pledged allegiance to ISIS

The female suicide bomber, Mona Guebla, author of the terrorist attack in the main street of Tunis on 29 October, had pledged allegiance to ISIS and used online channels to contact Tunisian terrorist leaders, announced Tunisia’s Interior Minister, Hichem Fourati, during a parliamentary session in which he presented a report on the attack. He explained that allegedly Guebla was in touch with the ISIS extremist organization inside and outside Tunisia to whom she swore allegiance using “secret communication channels” and from whom she received online instructions on bomb-making. Interior Minister added that after the attack, authorities found “a quantity of raw materials used in the manufacture of explosives” at Guebla’s house, confirming that she made the explosives herselft. The Minister confirmed that Tunisian security services had not been able, through security research, to prove that she was assisted by anyone denying the reports that the bomber was backed by at least two people, a woman and a man, and confirming the government’s earlier suspicions that this is the case of a “lone wolves”. Last month, Guebla detonated a bomb near police cars in central Tunis on the busy upmarket Avenue Habib Bourguiba, wounding 26 people, mostly police officers.

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