The female suicide bomber who blew herself up on the main street of Tunis, Mona Guebla, had pledged allegiance to ISIS and used online channels to contact Tunisian terrorist leaders, announced Tunisia’s interior minister Hichem Fourati. In October, Guebla detonated a bomb near police cars in central Tunis on the busy upmarket Avenue Habib Bourguiba, killing herself and wounding 26 people, mostly police officers. Fourati was speaking during a parliamentary session in which he presented a report on the attack. He explained that allegedly Guebla was in touch with extremist organizations inside and outside Tunisia, like Libya and Syria. Guebla had used “secret communication channels” to make contact with “terrorist leaders inside and outside the country” and to swear allegiance to ISIS, he added. Fourati said the woman received online instructions on bomb-making from “terrorist elements” based in the country, referring to terrorists in the country’s mountainous east. The minister said without elaboration that authorities dismantled numerous cells and arrested suspects this year, thwarting planned attacks in the capital. After her death, authorities found “a quantity of raw materials used in the manufacture of explosives” at her house, Fourati said. This confirmed that the attacker made the explosive device herself. Regarding the reports that Guebla was backed by at least two people, a woman and a man, the minister confirmed that Tunisian security services had not been able, through security research, to prove that she was assisted by anyone. Fourati went on to say that this confirms earlier suspicions that this is the case of a "lone wolves" that adopt terrorist ideology within sleeper cells and seeks to carry out terrorist operations on their own.