Tunisia’s Brotherhood fosters terrorism

Doaa Emam

Ambassador Nabeela al-Kedi, a former Tunisian commissioner in the Arab League, has unveiled revealed that she met with late Tunisian President, Beji Caid Essebsi before he was elected president.

Al-Kedi said she met with Essebsi in Mauritania and discussed the political situation in Tunisia. She said he had pledged to exclude the Muslim Brotherhood.  He also pledged to sack all the Brotherhood’s members in government positions.

The former ambassador said in a TV interview on July 27, al-Kedi said a coup was planned last month. The announcement of Essebsi’s death while he was ill was planned as the speaker of parliament was also suffering from an illness.

“In this case the deputy speaker of parliament, who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Tunisia, would be appointed as president. However, the parliament’s speaker foiled the plan,” she said.

Al-Kedi said that the Muslim Brotherhood seized the state budget and caused the deterioration of the country’s economy. She said the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood is “exporting terrorists” to fight in Syria and Libya.

“The Renaissance Movement and the Brotherhood’s organization in Tunisia sent girls to Syria for jihad and in violation of human and religious values. They say this is jihad, while the Brotherhood’s leaders in Turkey do not send their girls for jihad!”

“A Qatari military aircraft landed at an airport in eastern Tunisia in April. Tunisian politicians wondered if that aircraft carried military supplies to terrorists in Tripoli,” she said.

The Renaissance Movement was also decried as photos of terrorists were circulated by activists on the social media. The Tunisian activists said these terrorists, who were wounded in Tripoli, were treated in Tunisian hospitals.

For his part, Kais Benhamad said that the correlation between the Renaissance Movement and terrorist operations in Tunisia is correct, citing the public awareness of the movement’s extremist intellectual basis.

“The Renaissance Movement is facing huge domestic challenges as the legislative and presidential elections will take place,” Benhamad told THE REFERENCE.

However, Benhamad ruled out that the Tunisian parliament could label the Renaissance Movement as a terrorist group.