Ex-US envoy denies accusing Tunisia’s Ennahda of exporting terrorism

US Secretary of State John Kerry and US Ambassador to Tunisia Jacob Walles sit with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki for a meeting at the Carthage President’s Residence in Carthage, Tunisia, on February 18, 2014. [State Department photo/ Flickr]

Former US Ambassador to Tunisia Jacob Walles has denied media reports claiming he accused the Muslim Brotherhood of sponsoring terrorism and Tunisia’s Muslim Brotherhood group of exporting terrorism to other countries in the region.

“The Tunisian press reports that I have seen do not accurately reflect my observations,” Walles said on Twitter.

Tunisian media outlets quoted the ambassador as saying that “the Troika government led by the Islamist Ennahda Movement after the revolution in 2011 along with extremist groups are involved in terrorism and exporting terrorists to Syria.”

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