Tunisia Salafists Threaten Ennahda

Tunis — In the first direct threat to Tunisia's Islamist-led government, the leader of the country's salafist jihadist movement threatened to topple the prime minister, Tunisienumerique.com reported on Wednesday (March 27th).

"Hold back your sick person from us or else we'll wage a war against him until we topple him and throw him into the dustbin of history," Ansar al-Sharia leader Saif Allah bin Hussein (alias Abou Iyadh) said in a message addressed to Ennahda published on Ansar al-Sharia's Facebook page.

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