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Tunisia: ISIS Fighters Claim 2 Killings Tunisia: ISIS Fighters Claim 2 Killings
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Tunisian fighters with the Islamic State group have claimed responsibility in a video for the assassinations of two left-wing politicians, Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, last year and threatened to carry out more assassinations before Tunisia’s presidential runoff on Sunday. Three Tunisians, dressed in black and armed with rifles, speak in the video, exhorting Tunisians to rise up and expand the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, across North Africa from Libya to Algeria. The video was released Wednesday on social media. The Interior Ministry on Thursday confirmed that one of the men was Boubakr Hakim, who is the chief suspect in the two murders. Mr. Hakim says in the video, according to the SITE Monitoring Service, that Tunisians “will not live secured as long as Tunisia is not governed by Islam.” Tunisian fighters with the Islamic State have claimed responsibility in a video for the assassinations of the left-wing politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi last year and have threatened to carry out more assassinations before Tunisia’s presidential runoff on Sunday. Three Tunisians, dressed in black and armed with rifles, speak in the video, exhorting Tunisians to rise up and expand the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, across North Africa from Libya to Algeria. The video was released Wednesday on social media. The Interior Ministry on Thursday confirmed that one of the men was Boubakr Hakim, the chief suspect in the two murders. Mr. Hakim says in the video, according to the SITE Monitoring Service, that Tunisians “will not live secured as long as Tunisia is not governed by Islam.”