Tunisian women into Syria to carry out jihad al - wedlock '' ''

Tunisian women into Syria to carry out jihad al - wedlock '' ''

Opposition rebellion in Syria

A number of Tunisian women have traveled to Syria to do what is called Tunisian government as jihad al - wedlock or " assist " the extreme militant fighters in the fight against the Damascus regime .

" They had a sexual relationship with a 20 , 30 , up to 100 militants , " said Interior Minister Tunisia Lotfi Ben Jeddou to members of the National Constituent Assembly told AFP on Friday.

" After the sexual relationship there under the name of jihad al - marriage - ( holy war through marital relations ) - they return to their country in a state of pregnancy , " said Ben Jeddou .

He did not disclose how many Tunisian women who returned to his country in a state containing the children of the militants called the West as the jihadis .

Jihad al -marital allow extramarital sexual relations with the other spouse , are considered legitimate by the Salafi jihadist wing as a form of holy war .

The minister did not disclose how many Tunisian women who went to Syria for the purpose , but the mass media put the figure at hundreds .

Hundreds of Tunisian men also join the jihadists in the fight to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al - Assad .

Ben Jeddou himself since he was a minister said last March , about six thousand of young Tunisians have been prevented from going to Syria by the government .

Media itself stated that thousands of people in the last 15 years Tunisia has joined the jihadists around the world including Afghanistan , Iraq and Syria yag mostly Turkey and Libya passed .

Abu Iyadh persuaded as the main character Salafi movement in Tunisia under the name Ansar al -Sharia . He is thought to be organizers of deadly attacks last year to the U.S. Embassy in Tunis , as well as an Afghanistan veteran .

He is the leader of the group responsible for suicide bombings 9 September 2001 in Afghanistan that killed the leader of the anti - Taliban Northern Alliance Ahmad Shah Mansoor .

The attack just two days before the death of Al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington , according to AFP .