- Tunisian Combat Group
The Tunisian Combat Group (TCG) or Tunisian Fighting Group is or was a loose network of terrorists who aspire to install an Islamist government in
Tunisia . [http://www.osac.gov/Groups/group.cfm?contentID=1335 The Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG)] , Overseas Security Advisory Council (USA)] [http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=4346 Tunisian Combat Group] , MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base] Its personnel are said to be in Western Europe and, formerly, inAfghanistan , where it was affiliated withal-Qaeda . [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf Summary of Evidence (.pdf)] prepared forHisham Sliti 's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal s" -November 19 2004 - page 62] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_2_1046-1160.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] ofLufti Bin Ali "Administrative Review Board " - page 19] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_2_1046-1160.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] ofRiyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri "Administrative Review Board ",April 27 2005 - page 5] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_2_1046-1160.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] ofRidah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi "Administrative Review Board ",May 4 2005 - page 51] [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf Summary of Evidence (.pdf)] prepared forAbdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi 's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal s" -October 13 2004 - page 53] In the United States TCG has been banned since October 2002, classed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity underExecutive Order 13224 . [http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2004/32678.htm Terrorist Exclusion List] , US State Department] [http://www.treasury.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/terror/terror.pdf Banned entity list] ,Office of Foreign Assets Control , US Treasury Department]A cofounder of TCB, Tarek Ben Habib Maaroufi, provided the forged Belgian passports by which the assassins of
Ahmed Shah Massoud travelled to Afghanistan. He is serving a sentence in Belgium. The other cofounder of TCB, Saifallah Ben Hassine, was last seen inLondon .A number of the detainees held in
extrajudicial detention in the United StatesGuantanamo Bay detainment camp s, inCuba , remain in detention, in part, because American intelligence analysts allege they were members of the Tunisian Combat Group.References
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