As violence takes off nationwide, fears of a Syrian Civil War continue to grow. Often lost in this is the growing number of suicide attacks carried out against the regime by al-Qaeda style organizations. But where are they getting their recruits?
As it turns out, a number of the recruits are coming from Tunisia, where religious extremists who were in that nation for the first Arab Spring revolution have taken to heading abroad to launch bombing attacks against the Assad regime.
Its surprising, given Tunisia’s secular nature, but decades of violent repression against Islamists have turned what the nation does have into extremely radical and extremely violent jihadists. It is believed that Tunisians are the largest group of foreign fighters in Syria.
This is just another of Syria’s many problems today, but could become Tunisia’s problems tomorrow, as the fighters gain experience and international terrorist contacts and will eventually return home.
What a bunch of crap!
There is no other way for these unemployed, uneducated, not having anything to do with their life visiting these Saudis and UAE mosques which are engaged recruiting these people in Europe and els where, the Turkish border or the Lebanon and Jordanian territory is the only way to get into Syria.
The government of Tunisia knows about it so the Turkish, the Jordanians and others, they are doing their part in destabilizing the Syrian society with help of US and NATO mercenaries training these people. Yet if they get anywhere and achieve anything is another matter, this is nothing new, is being going on for last 9-15 months.
The CIA must be paying them by the hour to do so. Oh, no, wait! Tunisia was/is a US client state…Oops! Well, there goes that theory.