Tunisia attack: Gunman 'was in Isis sleeper cell and had terror training in Libya', student says
Source: The Independent
Tuesday 30 June 2015
The gunman who massacred 38 tourists at a Tunisian hotel had been part of an Isis sleeper cell for several years despite not being known to authorities, it has been claimed.
Police admitted
they had no idea that Seifeddine Rezgui, a 23-year-old network management student was a terrorist threat.
But a man who knew him at lInstitut Superior des Sciences Appliquees et de Technologie (Issat), in Kairouan, claimed Rezgui was part of a five-man cell and had been a jihadist for at least four years.
He added that the student
trained in Libya with a terrorist group called Ansar al-Sharia, which has partly pledged allegiance to Isis and also has links to al-Qaeda, and believes Rezgui was taught to disguise his radicalisation.
Around 17 British and Irish victims of the attack have so far been named and the death toll for the UK could rise to 30, making it the deadliest terror attack on the countrys citizens since the 7 July bombings a decade ago.
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