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A Tunisian judge gave suspended two-year sentences to 20 Tunisians convicted of attacking the US Embassy in Tunis on Sept. 14, 2012; at the time of the attack, 73 persons were arrested. The verdict came after an unusually brief trial. Although the government has accused Tunisian Ansar al Sharia leader Abu Iyadh of orchestrating the attack, he has not been brought to trial. A report on a Tunisian handball player who died fighting with the Free Syrian Army noted that thousands of Tunisian Salafists have traveled through Turkey to fight alongside the Free Syrian Army in Syria.