Downtown Tunis terror attack

[Perspicuo]

Tunisia Museum Attack Leaves 19 Dead; 2 Gunmen Killed in Firefight
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world/africa/gunmen-attack-tunis-bardo-national-museum.html?_r=0

CAIRO — Gunmen in military uniforms attacked a museum in downtown Tunis around noon on Wednesday, killing 19 people, officials said. Security forces later advanced into the museum and killed two gunmen in a firefight, state television reported.

Prime Minister Habib Essid said at a news conference that the dead included 17 foreigners and two Tunisians. Polish, Italian, Spanish and German tourists were among the dead, Mr. Essid said.

Eight people were killed as they got off a bus to visit the museum, according to an Interior Ministry spokesman; 10 more were taken hostage and then killed. State television reported that a Tunisian museum guard who was injured in the attack and died later of his wounds.

The prime minister said that 22 more people had been injured in the attack.

 

[TSwizzle]

Tunisian officials said it was possible that the Parliament, rather than the museum, was the original intended target of the attack; some reports said that legislators were discussing an antiterrorism law on Wednesday.

Hardly likely from other reports I have read where infidels tourists were deliberately targeted.

The identity and motivation of the attackers were not immediately clear.

But I'll hazard a guess that it has something to do with teh islam.

 

[dismal]

But not teh *real* islam.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Tunisian officials said it was possible that the Parliament, rather than the museum, was the original intended target of the attack; some reports said that legislators were discussing an antiterrorism law on Wednesday.

Hardly likely from other reports I have read where infidels tourists were deliberately targeted.

But it would make sense if what the Tunisian officials are saying was true.

If they're about to pass an antiterrorism law, then anyone who wants to engage in terrorism would have a motivation to go ahead and do it quickly before it becomes illegal. Additionally, if they blow up the people who are working on making terrorism illegal, then that delays the passage of the antiterrorism law and gives them extra time to do more terrorism before they have to stop or worry about getting fined (or whatever the penalty turns out to be - I don't know how the Tunisian justice system works).

 

[ksen]

Thanks Obama.