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Tunisia Arrests Two Suspected of al-Qaida Links

   VOA News  May 15, 2011

   Map of Tunisia

   Tunisian state television says two people suspected of having links to
   al-Qaida's North African branch have been arrested in the country's
   south.
   Reports say the men were carrying bombs when they were arrested in an
   area near the border with Libya.
   No further details were released.
   Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb grew out of an Islamist insurgency
   movement in Algeria, merging with al-Qaida in 2006 and spreading
   through the Sahara and the Sahel region. It has been responsible for a
   series of kidnappings and attacks across northern Africa in recent
   years.

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