Tunisian government denies news on a plan to assassinate American army officers

The Tunisian government refuted the existence of a plan to assassinate American army officers by a number of terrorists among them two Tunisian military officers.
Last Sunday, the attorney Samir Ben Amor declared to press agencies that a number of youngers and two Tunisian army officers had been arrested under terrorism’s law and were charged with planning to assassinate American military officers visiting Tunisia in the context of military exercises. Judicial sources notified a press agency that initial investigations were related to 14 persons 6 of them escaped. According to the notification, these persons are affiliated to a radical group and they prepared to carry out terrorist attacks without giving further details and denying the existence of any reference to attacks on American military officers in the investigations’ reports ; and affirming that the investigations conducted by investigation’s judge did not refer to the involvement of the two army officers or the members of this group in the planning. Authorities accused the solicitor Samir Ben Amor of distortion of facts and punishable professional abuses. The attorney Ben Amor refused to give any attitude on these accusations to the Associated Press explaining that he respects the secrecy of investigation.-