During a May 24 raid in the western Tunis suburb of Ettadhamen, security forces arrested 11 fugitives, including a Salafist linked to the Sept. 14 attack on the US Embassy. Seven suspects in the killing of a police officer were also arrested recently, while two “religious extremists” are at large. The leader of the Freedom and Justice party estimated that a third of Tunisia’s mosques are controlled by Wahhabis, not merely the 100 mosques mentioned by the religious affairs minister.
