would broadly support what you re trying to claim? well i mean, this has been developing for a while. it has been escalating for some time now. all of the main leaders of isis in libya are tunisian. many of them have gone to syria and have come back. there has not been any claim of responsibility, but the professionalism of this attack, it points to something that s not just random one off. perhaps it is a sort of hybrid-style attack we ve been hearing about, a sort of combination of very skilled people but yet not acting on any kind of orders explicitly. it definitely carries the hallmarks of that kind of attack. we got a report earlier about how there s been a migration of holy warriors that have left tunisia not only to align themselves with isis but they ve had a history of going to gaza afghanistan, chechnya also to iraq. do you think this was some type of local insurgent cell if
hi everybody. i m thomas roberts. right to the breaking news. 21 confirmed dead after a standoff with militants in tunisia. many of them were tourists visiting the bordeaux museum. two of the gunman were shot and killed by security forces but three more accomplices are on the loose and minutes ago jen ptaki spoke about the attack. the embassy is open and ten miles from the museum and all employees have been accounted for and informed of the situation and urged to avoid the museum and surrounding vicinity. and that is jen ptaki, getting word of the audio released 24 hours before the attack from the extremist group in tunisia. we ll bring you the details as soon as they are available.
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welcome back, everybody. want to take you straight to the state department and spokesperson jenn psaki taking questions about the shooting of tourists in tunisia. part of a pattern that s likely to grow. again, sir, this just happened this morning. there have been no claims of responsibility. so we re not going to draw any conclusions at this point in time. okay. but up to this point, tunisia was considered a high risk area for diplomats. or medium security risk. how do you do it now? how do you treat it now? again, we put information out publicly. we make that available. we haven t changed or recategorized or anything along those lines in response to the attacks. we obviously do provide emergency messages or put out emergency messages whenever incidents like this occur. anymore on this before we
but why is this small country prone to violent extremism and frances is investigating into that. and it might narrow down who the militants might be and the background with extremism in tunisia. here is some background. tunisia is 99% sunni muslim but the government has been more than 150 muslim organizations and 2,000 young people have been arrested on charged of terrorism. that is according to the washington post. now take a look at this world map from the washington post as well. the arrows here come from all over the world and they represent the number of groups coming from worldwide to join the fighters. and this is tunisia where 3000 recruits have joined isis and going straight into syria right there. so that is according to government data provided to private analyst groups.