Al-Assad said Sunday that some of the captured terrorists hail from Tunisia and Libya.
Michel Kichka from Israel, Nadia Khiari from Tunisia, and Ali Dilem from Algeria.
Burns said he'd just gotten back from Tunisia, where a suspect in the Benghazi attack is being detained.
On the day Santos received the news from Tunisia, he scored his ninth goal for Sochaux, who are fourth in the French league.
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Alcohol is also smuggled into Libya from Tunisia, Algeria and Malta.
Some small shipments are still arriving overland from Tunisia and Algeria.
Deportation proceedings also have started or are planned against three others: an imam of Saudi nationality, a militant Islamist from Tunisia and an imam from Turkey, the statement said.
Cables from Tunisia, another close American ally in the region, bluntly depict the regime of president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali as a sclerotic police state increasingly tarnished by nepotism.
And we are engaged, as I know many of you know, in efforts really across the region, from Tunisia all the way to obviously our ongoing efforts in Iraq.
The news comes one day after Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said he would step down if a caretaker government he is forming fails to win approval from Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly.
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U.S. officials said Tuesday Farouk Hijazi, ex-head of Saddam's Mukhabarat intelligence service, had arrived in Syria from Tunisia where he had been serving as Iraq's ambassador at the start of the war.
Apart from hosts Tunisia, defending champions Cameroon, Senegal and Nigeria, who lead the four groups in the first round, the remaining 12 countries have been pooled into three tiers of four teams.
With members from France, Tunisia and Corsica, they bring a pan-Mediterranean perspective to their heartfelt rock 'n' roll.
Leaders from Egypt and Tunisia will be there to talk about a big fear in Washington and the European capitals.
It's why the ultra-religious have prevented comics from performing in Tunisia.
It was two days after the departure from office of Tunisia's president, Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, signaled the full explosion of the Arab Spring.
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Though the local cuisine incorporates ingredients and techniques from Sicily and Tunisia, Pantelleria's nearest neighbors, it is as strikingly distinctive as the island's craggy lava-rock landscape.
In June I attended a roundtable discussion in Barcelona that featured more than a dozen young leaders of the Arab Spring, from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Palestine, Morocco and elsewhere.
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In exchange, PLO leaders were allowed to return from exile in Tunisia and recognized as the Palestinian Authority, the governing body of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
But he reportedly managed to escape with 45 million euros in gold bars from the Bank of Tunisia, and the rest of his assets (which he stands accused of embezzling from the state) are now frozen in French banks, and will probably remain there.
Instead he said that "getting everyone around a table" had successfully prevented Tunisia "from falling into the unknown".
Absent from the Cup of Nations in Tunisia due to a conflict with former manager Shakes Mashaba over his release from English club duties with Charlton Athletic, Bartlett said he is looking forward to a new chapter with the South African team.
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Although Wekesa was mysteriously barred from watching Kenya's last World Cup qualifier against Tunisia and has been unable to work from the KFF offices, he is determined to change the landscape of the game in Kenya.
Another in Tunisia holds remains from World War II's North Africa battles.
Mr Sellal said the kidnappers had crossed into the country from northern Mali, and that they were from Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, Canada and Mauritania.
The prime minister said the kidnappers had crossed into the country from northern Mali, and that they were from Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, Canada and Mauritania.
Ahly, the most successful club in Caf history with five Champions League victories, four African Cup Winners Cup successes and three African Super Cup triumphs, barred journalists and followers from a midweek flight to Tunisia.
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They joined wrestlers from Cantabria in Spain, Friesland in the Netherlands, Scotland and Tunisia, as well as a host of competitors from all over Brittany in 138-strong field.
But the first match went according to plan for Hoddle, as Alan Shearer headed home England's first, wunderkind Michael Owen came on as a late substitute, and Paul Scholes sealed the victory a minute from time, as England beat Tunisia 2-0.
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