article_snippet: And that bloodshed, the ISIS message warned, is "just the start.
article_snippet: The siege took place just days after a Tunisian jihadist tweeted that a pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, was coming soon, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors terrorist propaganda.
article_snippet: In Yassine Labidi message, a Tunisian jihadist claimed to belong to Jund al-Khilafah in Tunisia, a group that in December pledged allegiance to ISIS, even though that vow hadn't seemed to have fully registered with the Islamist extremist group.
article_snippet: Yassine Labidi post comes after an ISIS fighter in the Islamist extremist group's stronghold of Raqqa in Syria recently appeared in a video questioning why militants in Tunisia had not pledged fealty.
article_snippet: The government has been battling a jihadist presence in the Chaambi Mountains.
article_snippet: And in February, the country's Interior Ministry announced the arrests of about 100 alleged extremists and published a video allegedly showing that the group possessed a formula for making explosives and a photograph of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi.
article_snippet: Mehrezia Labidi, another parliamentarian, says it's imperative that the message gets across to would-be jihadists that "life in democracy is better than" what terrorist recruiters are telling terrorist recruiters.
article_snippet: CNN's Hamdi Alkhshali, Barbara Starr, Karl Penhaul, Marilia Brocchetto, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Arwa Damon, Salma Abdelaziz and journalists Yasmine Ryan and Livia Borghese contributed to this report.