Tunisia police smash terror cell planning second 'MAJOR ATTACK' on Sousse hotels

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/619962/Tunisia-terror-arrests-attack-tourist-hotels-Sousse

TERROR police have swooped on a jihadi cell accused of planning a "major attack" on tourist hotels in the Tunisian resort of Sousse, less than five months after a massacre there left 38 dead.

By Tom Batchelor

PUBLISHED: 08:49, Tue, Nov 17, 2015 | UPDATED: 16:39, Tue, Nov 17, 2015

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ISIS killer Seifiddine Rezgui was said to be high on drugs when he carried out the Sousse massacre

Some of the militants had been trained in Libya and Syria and were awaiting orders to carry out the assault at an unknown location in November.

Kalashnikov rifles, explosives and a bomb belt were also seized during the arrests.
Security chief Rafik Chelli said: ”We have foiled a major attack this month that the terrorist cell was preparing against vital installations, hotels, security centres and against politicians to bring chaos to the country.”

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Islamic State has claimed two attacks on Tunisia in just the last year.
In March, gunmen killed 21 tourists in an attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, and 38 foreigners - including 30 Britons - were killed at a beach hotel in Sousse by another gunman in June.

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Holidaymakers paying their respects at the beach massacre

Preparations are beginning today for inquests into the British beach deaths.
Crown court judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith, who has been appointed as coroner, is to hold a pre-inquest review hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London.
Seifeddine Rezgui was identified as the assailant in that attack.

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Bodies of the dead on the beach in June

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The killer lying dead in the street

The young radicalised Tunisian, disguised as a tourist, took out a Kalashnikov assault rifle concealed in a beach umbrella and fired at the tourists on the beach.
He then entered a nearby hotel, shooting at tourists, before security forces shot him dead in an exchange of fire.
It was the deadliest terror attack on Tunisian soil in living memory.

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