How Ennahda is involved in Tunisia’s bombing

Mohamed Abdel Ghaffar

Tunisian politicians thought the engagement of Ennahda Movement, the political arm of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization, into the country’s mainstream political scene following the revolution would put an end to its evil. However, the opposite has taken place as the terrorist group wants to either takes control of the government or draws on violence.

The bombing of the US embassy is nothing but part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorism against the Tunisian people.

The bombing targeted a security patrol near the US embassy in Tunis on March 6. The attack resulted in killing an officer and the wounding of six others. The local Radio Mosaic said two suicide bombers were killed.

This raises a question: Why two young people join a terrorist organization in Tunisia? Ennahda Movement gives an answer to that.

Former US ambassador Jacob Wallace said in a research published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that Tunisia has become a country dealing with terrorism and extremism, citing that Tunisia had facilitated the travel of terrorists to Libya, Syria and Iraq under the name of jihad.

Wallace has made it clear that some 2,900 Tunisian fighters traveled to Iraq and Syria between 2011 and 2013. They joined Al-Nusra Front, ISIS, Jaish al-Islam, and other terrorist groups.

Riyad Jarad, spokesman for the General Union of Tunisian Students, told THE REFERENCE that Tunisia would pay the price of the Brotherhood’s control along with the Ennahda  Movement over the state’s institutions. He has pointed out that the Brotherhood’s Ennahda Movement is seeking to control the Tunisian government, while there is growing public rejection of Ennahda Movement.

“The bombing raises a number of questions in terms of the timing as it coincided with Ben Gardane battle against terrorists, where the Tunisian people, the army and security forces fought a strong war against terrorism near the Libyan border and foiled a plot to control the city,” he said.

Jarad also pointed out that the issue was related to Libya and the going conflict in Tripoli, citing that the Turkish-backed militias are still in control of the Libyan capital.

Jarad concluded that Tunisia is going through a war fueled by Ennahda Movement and the extremist groups to confuse the Tunisian people.

“They want to the country to be gripped by anxiety and poverty to control the Tunisian decision-making and launch a Brotherhood-led state,” he concluded.