The two dead militants were identified as Tunisians, Hatem al-Khashnawi and Yassin al-Abidi ... "We arrested the father and the sister of the terrorist Hatem Al-Khashnawi in the their home in Sbiba City," the source told Reuters ... A former commander in Tunisia's Ansar al Sharia was killed last week fighting for Islamic State in Libyan city of Sirte....
Reuters
2015-03-20
Yassin al-Abidi spent his childhood just 20 minutes from the building where his life ended amid a killing spree ... The second gunman, Hatem al-Khashnawi, had apparently stayed off the radar of the security forces, which have been stretched by the apparently wide appeal of jihad to the country’s youth ... Al-Qaeda has been around for more than a decade, using different names, and the appeal of IS has been growing recently....
The Irish Times
2015-03-20
Islamic State yesterday claimed responsibility for the murder of 20 foreign tourists and a policeman at the Bardo museum in Tunis on Wednesday ... Tunisian authorities identified the gunmen as Hatem al-Khashnawi and Yassin al-Abidi, both in their 20s ... ... Nine arrests. The government said it has arrested nine people in connection with Wednesday’s attack, including the father and sister of al-Khashnawi ... ....
The Irish Times
2015-03-20
KUWAIT ... within Opec we don’t have any other choice than keeping the ceiling of production as it is because we don’t want to lose our share in the market,” Ali al-Omair told reporters in Kuwait city. Many Opec oil ministers, including Saudi Arabia’s Ali al-Naimi, have defended the group’s November decision not to cut production but instead defend market share and curtail the output of more expensive producers such as the United States ... ....
Dawn
2015-03-20
Minister of Defence Major General Mahmoud al-Subaihi, who fled house arrest by the Houthi group early this month, was seen at Badr military base near the airport to lead the army operation against security forces suspected to be loyal to Houthis, according to an army officer ... Observers said the country may slip to civil war and the al-Qaida group ......
Xinhua
2015-03-20
Horrific though the toll of dead at the Bardo museum in Tunis certainly is – it’s nowhere near the 62 men, women and children slaughtered at the 18th- dynasty temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Luxor in 1997; when the Al Gama’a al Islamiyya was trying to destroy Egypt’s tourist economy. Other foreign tourists were killed during the insurgent campaign in Egypt, 10 of them outside Cairo’s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities ... OMINOUS WARNING ... ....
Dawn
2015-03-20
AL-MARJ, Libya — Libya's army chief, Gen ... He was recently named military chief by the Tobruk-based parliament, and spoke to the AP in one of his eastern strongholds, al-Marj, where he has wide tribal support. He said his forces need backing from the West against the Islamic State group ... Army spokesman Ahmed al-Mesmari said the base was being used to move militant fighters and weapons, an allegation the Tripoli-based government denies ... ....
Stars and Stripes
2015-03-20
... to d.etal (dating et al ) digital magazine....
Skiddle
2015-03-20
