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Armed Tunisian police swarm streets of tourist towns after attack
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 29 - 06 - 2015

TUNIS — Hundreds of armed police patrolled the streets of Tunisia's beach resorts on Sunday and the government said it will deploy hundreds more inside hotels after the militant attack in Sousse that killed 39 foreigners, mostly Britons.
Thousands of tourists have left Tunisia since Friday's attack, which has shocked the North African country that relies heavily on tourism for jobs and foreign currency revenues.
Britain's Foreign Office warned late on Saturday that militants may launch further attacks on tourist resorts in after a gunman opened fire on the Imperial Marhaba resort, in the worst assault of its kind in modern Tunisian history.
At least 15 Britons were among the dead and wounded along with German, Irish and Belgian nationals in Sousse, a popular resort town. It was the most significant attack on Britons since the attack on the London transport system in 2005.
“We are going to deploy 1,000 armed police to protect hotels and tourists,” Tunisian Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli told reporters late on Saturday night.
Since its 2011 uprising Tunisia has been praised for its peaceful transition to democracy with a new constitution and free elections seen as a model for the region.
But its young democracy has also been tested by the rise of hardline movements, some of which have turned to violence. The army has been fighting a campaign against pockets of militants near the Algerian border.
Daesh has claimed the Sousse attack. But officials say the gunman, named as Saif Rezgui, was not any watchlist of known potential militants. One source said he appeared to have been radicalized over the last six months by recruiters.
It was the second major attack in Tunisia this year, following a militant assault on the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March when gunmen killed a group of foreign visitors as they arrived by bus.
The tourism minister has described the Sousse attack as a catastrophe for the industry, which accounts for about seven percent of the country's gross domestic product.
More than 3,000 tourists had already left the country a day after the attack.
“Tunisia is a beautiful country, and we will come back, but right now we need to leave, we need to forget what happened,” said Lucy, a young British tourist leaving from a local airport near Sousse. “It's clear it is not safe here at the moment.”
Terrorists have attacked North African tourist sites before, seeing them as legitimate targets because of their open Western lifestyles. Tunisia is one of the most secular countries in the Arab world.
Prime Minister Habib Essid said his government plans within a week to close down 80 mosques that remain outside state control, for inciting violence, and crack down on financing for certain associations, in order to counter militant rectruiters. — Reuters


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