Steiner
17.09.2012, 19:40
Immer wenn man denkt es kann gar nicht mehr schlimmer kommen, wird man eines besseren belehrt. Im laufe des Tages gab es immer Tweets darüber, dass in Tunesien eine Moschee von rund 1000 Polizisten eingekesselt wurde. In der besagten Moschee hatte sich ein radikaler Salafistenimam mitsamt seinen Anhängern verschanzt. Dieser besagte Imam soll maßgeblich an den gewaltsamen Protesten beteiligt gewesen sein bzw. sie ausgelöst haben. Nun ist gerade die Meldung reingekommen, dass die Polizei sich um einige hundert Meter zurückgezogen hat und den Imam hat entkommen lassen. Man hat im sozusagen freies Geleit gegeben anstatt ihn zu verhaften...... Aber lest selbst......
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A hardline Muslim leader blamed for encouraging last week's violent protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia fled through a police cordon Monday around one of the capital's main mosques, where he had been holed up with his followers.
Hundreds of security forces had surrounded El Fateh mosque in Tunis, where Seif-Allah Ben Hassine had earlier denounced the Tunisian government and police for Friday's violence, claiming it was meant to be a peaceful demonstration.
An Associated Press reporter said Ben Hassine — reportedly linked with an Islamist militant group in Libya — escaped with hundreds of followers as they ran through security lines, clearly protecting his exit.
A police officer at the scene said the group exited following negotiations with authorities, but provided no further details. The security forces later withdrew from around the mosque. The officer wasn't authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be identified.
Friday's protest degenerated into violence and looting, with cars burned in the embassy parking lot and classrooms at a nearby American school trashed and looted. A U.S. flag was torn down and replaced with a black banner.
The protest — like others around the world — was carried out by demonstrators angry over a low-cost film made in the United States that insults the Prophet Muhammad.
Ben Hassine is allegedly the head of the Tunisian branch of Ansar al-Shariah — a suspect in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week that left U.S. Ambassador Christ Stevens and three colleagues dead.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIeBhYE6N429Xbx8mQSvJicaP7_w?docId=ce5501eb1 a94433191175360091f977d
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A hardline Muslim leader blamed for encouraging last week's violent protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia fled through a police cordon Monday around one of the capital's main mosques, where he had been holed up with his followers.
Hundreds of security forces had surrounded El Fateh mosque in Tunis, where Seif-Allah Ben Hassine had earlier denounced the Tunisian government and police for Friday's violence, claiming it was meant to be a peaceful demonstration.
An Associated Press reporter said Ben Hassine — reportedly linked with an Islamist militant group in Libya — escaped with hundreds of followers as they ran through security lines, clearly protecting his exit.
A police officer at the scene said the group exited following negotiations with authorities, but provided no further details. The security forces later withdrew from around the mosque. The officer wasn't authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be identified.
Friday's protest degenerated into violence and looting, with cars burned in the embassy parking lot and classrooms at a nearby American school trashed and looted. A U.S. flag was torn down and replaced with a black banner.
The protest — like others around the world — was carried out by demonstrators angry over a low-cost film made in the United States that insults the Prophet Muhammad.
Ben Hassine is allegedly the head of the Tunisian branch of Ansar al-Shariah — a suspect in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week that left U.S. Ambassador Christ Stevens and three colleagues dead.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIeBhYE6N429Xbx8mQSvJicaP7_w?docId=ce5501eb1 a94433191175360091f977d