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Tunisia: Security forces deliberately delayed arrival at site of beach jihad massacre

Jan 16, 2017 11:37 am By Robert Spencer

“Units that should have intervened in the events deliberately and unjustifiably slowed down to delay their arrival at the hotel. They had the ability to put an end to the attack before the police arrived but wasted a considerable amount of time in getting to the hotel.”

Clearly there were, and probably are, jihad sympathizers among Tunisian security forces.

“Tunisia beach massacre: Security forces deliberately delayed arrival at Sousse hotel, inquest hears,” by Ben Farmer, Telegraph, January 16, 2017:

Tunisian security forces deliberately delayed their arrival at a terrorist massacre of holidaymakers in which 38 tourists were killed, an inquest has heard.

The inquest into the deaths of 38 tourists including 30 Britons by extremist Seifeddine Rezgui heard that a local investigation criticised some police for stalling as they made their way to the scene of the killings at a Tunisian resort.

Rezgui walked through the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse systematically shooting dead innocent holidaymakers who were only there for enjoyment and relaxation, the High Court heard.

Samantha Leek QC, counsel to the inquest, said a report by Tunisian Judge Akremi had identified failings by local units which could have stopped the massacre before other police arrived and shot Rezgui dead.

She told a courtroom packed with relatives that an unnamed interior minister had told the judge some Tunisian security officers nearby had consciously slowed down their arrival.

Ms Leek said: “He said the units that should have intervened in the events deliberately and unjustifiably slowed down to delay their arrival at the hotel.

“They had the ability to put an end to the attack before the police arrived but wasted a considerable amount of time in getting to the hotel.”

Rezgui approached the hotel with an automatic weapon hidden in a parasol before he opened fire on guests on sun loungers.

The inquest into the shootings on Monday began at the High Court with a minute’s silence for the dead after all the names of the victims had been read out.

Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said the inquest, expected to last six weeks, would examine the events of the day, but also the security advice given by the Foreign Office and travel agents to holiday makers at the time.

The hearing will also look at the security arrangements put in place at the hotel after terrorists had killed 21 people, mainly tourists, three months earlier at the Bardo hotel in Tunis.

Ms Leek said: “On the 26th of June 2015, 38 tourists became victims of a terrorist attack at the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse.

“On that day a gunman entered the hotel from its beach, carrying an automatic weapon and a number of explosives.

“He systematically took the lives of 38 people who had travelled to Tunisia for relaxation and enjoyment. Thirty eight people who needlessly lost their lives.”

The court heard the gunman was dropped off in a street north of the hotel by an unidentified man driving a white van.

Rezgui then set off south along the beach carrying an automatic weapon hidden in a parasol.

When he reached the hotel’s sun loungers on the beach at the rear of the hotel, he opened fire….

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  1. DJM says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 11:46 am

    Why, WHY would anyone vacation in an Islamic country? At one time I would care about these tourists, but I have since lost sympathy for people who are willfully ignorant.

    • JERRY A JANSEN says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 1:13 pm

      Not only vacationing but work as well. I’m sure the British company exec who brought his wife along on a trip to Dubai for work didn’t think twice about it. That was until his wife was raped by some locals, jailed for reporting the rape and found guilty of it.

    • RationalVoice says

      Jan 17, 2017 at 12:16 pm

      Yes you are right. .I actually warned someone not to go to Tunisia because of the earlier massacre at the museum and they wisely took my advise. Tunisia sends more Jihadis to Daesch than any other country.

      Countries (including Western ones) need to take desperate measures including internment if they are going to stop this evil. Soft pedalling the Islamic threat like the UK does encouraged those unfortunate people go there because the Foreign Office didn’t warn them.
      The Catholic church used to and probably still does ban works of literature on moral grounds. Why doesn’t it proscribe the Qu’ran as there is nothing more evil and immoral and causing suffering and death on a gigantic scale in todays World !

      • Terry says

        Jan 17, 2017 at 7:54 pm

        Rational- you said that the Catholic church used to ban works of literature—–, and ask why oit diesn’t proscribve the Qu’ran—-.

        Well, Francis, the pedophile priest enabler, and other lefties in the Vatican and postions of power are in bed (figuratively-maybe literally also, I don’t know) with Muslims.

        Look at some of the things that the church ahs done.

        The nativity scene- dressing Mary & Joseph in Muslim garb. Francis’s statements about Jesus, etc being immigrants. His Islam is a religion of peace, etc.

        And the Bishops, cardinals, etc with their interfaith dialogue with Muslims?

        Sickening (I am not a catholic, incodentally).

        Perhaps that both religions have pedophiles in postions of power, and have had for decades isone of the reasons ( see, the story of the orpahnage in Ireland, whre children were sexually abused for some 50 yars; the cases in the US and elsewhere).

  2. EmHotep says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    Simply same as in Turkey, remember the Russian Envoy’s killing by Al Nusra member mevlut mert altintas. The assassin was killed by the Turkish interior minister’s team who did not want him to talk..

    I think Russians know this and they are acting as if they don’t know.

    • Sam says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 2:58 pm

      I would not be surprised at all if this was another set up by Erdogan like the fake Turkish “coup” I am from Turkey originally and I have no confidence at all in Turkish government and really in the Turkish culture which has been cultivated by evil Islam for centuries.

    • tom parry says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 3:02 pm

      Wrong- overall Turkey is still relativly safe, much more than south chicago.

      • Robbydot says

        Jan 17, 2017 at 4:30 am

        Is south Chicargo a well known holiday spot?

        • Richard says

          Jan 17, 2017 at 5:54 am

          Other than Chinatown and Ed Debevik’s, which are on the Southern end of Downtown, most Chicagoans steer WELL clear of the Southside! As for security forces showing up too late to do any good…..WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE!? (Sound familiar?)

      • Terry says

        Jan 17, 2017 at 7:59 pm

        I don’t think that that is saying much. I was in Chicago in 1971 or 72; waiting for the light to change, to cross, I was approached and offered cocoaine; pot; heroin; prostitutes of either sex, any age, etc. I saw a cop- he cmae over, he and the one offering me this were FRIENDS, SHOOK HANDS, AND THE COP TOLD ME THAT THIS PERSON (let’s use the name Xavier-as good as any) ONLY HAS THE HIGHEST QULITY, BOTH IN DRUGS AND SEX PARTNERS.

        (Near Rush Street-somewhere near downtown).

        I was in Chicago fro about 10 days on business, and left as soon as possible- and never returned.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 9:52 pm

      Very true, EmHotep.

  3. Stuart Smith says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 12:59 pm

    To rely on protection from muslim forces when muslims are killing you just does not happen.
    Want protection? do not rely on police / army / swat, the only defence you need is your own, it is the only protection you can depend on, do not go to any country that does not let you defend yourself.
    That way you live and these savages get none of your hard earned $ £, hit them where it hurts in the pocket, always works.

  4. Mike says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    It’s possible that they were just simply scared of being shot, as opposed to being active islamist supporters.

    That type of fear is what keeps muslim countries in the quagmire that they’re in.

    Note how the French security forces weren’t much better at the Bataclan.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 10:00 pm

      They are Muslims. Most of them either support Jihad terror outright, or at the very least are not going to do much to oppose it.

  5. somehistory says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    moslims won’t protect normal people against moslims, even if they are paid to do so.

    Evil, wild and putrid beast of islam.
    Revelation 13

  6. Angemon says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    She told a courtroom packed with relatives that an unnamed interior minister had told the judge some Tunisian security officers nearby had consciously slowed down their arrival.

    Could be that they were not in a hurry to endanger their life – or figured out what was happening and willingly gave him more time for a bigger body count.

  7. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 2:30 pm

    This reminds me of the slow “confused” response in that Mombai hotel. Give lame duck Prez Obama and near Prez Hillary credit: at least they didn’t even bother to try. That’s the way it’s done in these modern times.

    • Tradiguy says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 3:45 pm

      Near prez Hilary? She was nowhere near it- it was a landslide for Trump thank God!

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 10:05 pm

      I don’t believe that Indian security forces were deliberately enabling Jihad, APF–Muslim forces in Tunisia are a different matter.

  8. Tradiguy says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 3:44 pm

    Why would anyone want to go to a Muslim country on holiday for Gods sake? 2 reasons for keeping away.
    1. You could die with these scumbag cowards
    2. I wouldn’t put a penny piece in the hands of my enemies so that they could buy materials to attack me with. – Never have and never will!!

  9. Champ says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    Rezgui walked through the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse systematically shooting dead innocent holidaymakers who were only there for enjoyment and relaxation …

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Meanwhile Rezgui was only there for the enjoyment of ‘jihad’ …

    And of course it’s crazy that mohammedans consider jihad the height of serving god, when those of us with our heart & soul still intact understand that jihad is in fact the lowest form of crimes against humanity in service to evil.

  10. Zimriel says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    Tunisia is one of the Caliphate’s largest pools of recruits, alongside Chechnya.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    Tunisia: Security forces deliberately delayed arrival at site of beach jihad massacre
    ………………..

    This is horrifying–but does not surprise me.

  12. Terry says

    Jan 17, 2017 at 8:03 pm

    If I am not mistaken, Carnival Cruise Lines (ships flaggedin Panama- lax laws, but in reality a US firm) has ships under one or more of the names it operates ships under- stop there.

    Do these countries pay the crusie lines for their ships to stop in their ports, so their clients go off ship and spend money? if so, isn’t that a form of bribery? (Say Corrupt Practices law-I think it was named).

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 18, 2017 at 8:51 pm

      Terry, that would not be bribery–it would just be a business deal.

      That being said, any Infidel–or Infidel business–gadding off to Dar-al-Islam is extremely foolish.

      My English cousin and her husband were off on an anniversary cruise on the Nile when the “Arab Spring” hit in Egypt. They were able to get a flight direct to London, but there were other Infidels on that flight who were just glad to get out–even those who did not easily have enough money with them to get to their final destinations in Europe, Canada, the United State, Australia, or other parts of Dar-al-Harb. They may not have admitted it–even to themselves–but it was clear they wanted to get out of the Muslim world and back to safety in the civilized world.

  13. linnte says

    Jan 18, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    Didn’t countries used to go to War over atrositys like this? What ever happened to that?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 18, 2017 at 9:03 pm

      Yes–back when the West was still the West…

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