Anti-kidnap marches are planned for 30 August, a sign of the growing public fury.

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One reason is that Catholic fury has found an outlet in a growing number of lay pressure groups.

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The fury spread to Tunisia's coastal cities, growing as gory imagery relayed by cell phones and the internet clashed with the sanitised blandness of state television.

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