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Tunisia’s Ennahda party has condemned what it said was an attempted attack on its leader Rached Ghannouchi over the weekend as he left a mosque in the capital Tunis. Ghannouchi, the speaker of Tunisia’s defunct parliament, was leaving the Marrakchi mosque in Mellasine after attending prayers. The party said in a statement that a small group of individuals “seemingly hired” waited for Ghannouchi to leave the mosque and tried to attack him to make it appear as if he was being kicked out of the area by protesters. “This group appears to be a hired group, which came to perform a specific task for …