Tunisian police arrest suspected jihadists accused of planning attacks

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By Tarek Amara TUNIS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Tunisian police have arrested a dozen suspected Islamist militants said to be planning attacks as Tunisia prepares for the election that is supposed to complete a post-revolution transition to democracy. Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said on Friday police had seized explosives and ******* including rocket-propelled grenades destined for Mount Chaambi, where security forces have been hunting Islamist militants for months. Thousands of troops have been deployed since April in the in the Mount Chaambi region, close to the Algerian border, where jihadists who fled a French military intervention in Mali last year have taken refuge. At least 15 soldiers were killed in attacks on checkpoints in the area in July and, last week, a deputy in Tunisia's transitional parliament survived an assassination attempt in the city of Kasserine, at the foot of the massif.

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