22 Killed In Tunis Museum Attack, Gunmen At Large

[Webster]

....once again, the ugly head of radical Islamist terror shows itself:
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(New York Times) 5:35 p.m. (1635 GMT; 12:35 p.m. EDT) Tunisian state television says the death toll in an attack on a prominent museum has risen to 22, including several foreign tourists and two gunmen.

Authorities say assailants opened fire on the National Bordo Museum on Wednesday, killing tourists and a cleaning woman and wounding several others. Security forces later stormed the museum, killing two gunmen and a security officer. At least two or three other accomplices may be at large. State television said Wednesday afternoon that the death toll had risen to 22 people, including the two attackers. The report, citing medical officials, did not give a breakdown of nationalities.

World leaders offered their support to Tunisia's government. The prime minister promised extra security in tourist zones and asked residents to be extra alert.

Here's the Google News livefeed of events in Tunisia...

Given that Tunisia was where the now-moribund Arab Spring began back in 2011 and given that Tunisia has, at present, the largest number of foreign jihadist fighters of any country in either the Middle East and/or North Africa at present, it would not be surprising if this attack has all the hallmarks of an Islamist terror attack....

 

[seasidemike]

Here we go again, this will need the whole world to stand up and fight these madmen

 

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(Reuters) - Gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians on Wednesday in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that had largely escaped the region's "Arab Spring" turmoil.

Visitors from Italy, Germany, Poland and Spain were among the dead in the noon assault on Bardo museum inside the heavily guarded parliament compound in central Tunis, Prime Minister Habib Essid said.

"They just started opening fire on the tourists as they were getting out of the buses ... I couldn't see anything except blood and the dead," the driver of a tourist coach told journalists at the scene.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-tunisia-security-idUSKBN0ME18E20150318