Planting the seeds of Tunisia’s Ansar al Sharia
Foreign Policy: The attack on Benghazi’s U.S. consulate propelled a new jihadist organization into the political spotlight: Ansar al Sharia. As a number of groups sharing the same name have emerged across the Middle East and North Africa, pundits now scrabble for details of this little known yet seemingly ascendant force of global jihadism. This week, an interview with Hassen Brik, a spokesperson for Ansar al Sharia Tunisia, offered some clues as to the motivations and personalities behind the organization’s development […]
Categories: America, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen • Tags: Ansar al Sharia, Hassen Brik, Tunisia
