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 | | Tunisia, a nation of 10 million people sandwiched between Algeria and Libya on the Mediterranean Sea, won independence from France in 1956 and has taken a moderate stance in foreign relations while repressing Islamic fundamentalism. |
 | | Security sources and analysts in the region said Tunisia, as well as Morocco and Tunisia, are concerned about efforts by the fundamentalist Islamic guerrilla group al Qaeda to build support in the region for its campaign against the United States and other Western countries. |
 | | Tunisia blamed al Qaeda for a suicide bombing in 2002 against its main Jewish shrine, killing 14 people, most of them German tourists. |
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