Some 300 Tunisian extremists have joined Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s Mourabitounes terrorist group, which is said to be asking AQIM, Ansar Dine, and Tunisian terrorist brigades to join it. The group is believed to run training camps in southern Libya. Interior Minister Jeddo said a number of Tunisian girls have returned home pregnant from Syria after performing “sexual jihad” for Islamist fighters there. Since March, the interior ministry has banned 6,000 Tunisians from traveling to Syria and arrested 86 persons suspected of forming recruiting networks for jihad in Syria. A senior security official last month said a “sexual jihad cell” had been broken up in western Tunisia that was offering minor girls to Ansar al Sharia fighters.
