Al Qaeda linked suspects arrested in Tunisia and training camp disbanded.

This terror group is linked to AQMI  and the Emir Abdelmoussaab Abdelwadoud network in Algeria, Mr. Larayedh pointed out in a press conference held in Tunis, adding that several members of the terrorist group are still hiding in the Djebel Chaambi in the Kasserine region.

The group includes young Tunisian Islamist radicals who had been trained and recruited to join the Libyan or Algerian AQIM camps, the minister said.Mr. Larayedh announced that the persons involved in the Jendouba incidents  when a tunisian borderguard was killed and others injured,have  also been arrested.This radical group assists AQIM terrorists coming from Libya in their transit to Algeria, he explained, adding that the rest of the group, still hiding in the Ain Draham mountains, in an Algerian border area, are besieged by the Army and the National Guard.

“We have discovered a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in a training camp run by three Algerians close to AQIM leader Abou Moussab Abdel Wadoud,” in the Kasserine region, Interior Minister Ali Laarayedh told reporters. The  Minister had denied rumours of terrorist training camps in Tunisia  in May .Weapons, ammunition, explosives, binoculars, maps and military uniforms were seized during the operation, Laarayedh said, with most of the weapons thought to have come from Libya. He said that The military training camp was created in order to develop “a jihadist organisation capable of carrying out violent actions with the aim of imposing sharia Islamic law” in Tunisia, AFP reported with 16 suspects arested in all.