ISLAMIC State 'claims' responsibility for Tunisia attack as nation is left asking: what next?

Police in Tunisia moved to arrest nine people in connection with a terrorist attack on a museum as a British woman was named as one of the 20 tourists killed.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), the jihadi group that has established a self-styled caliphate in Syria and Iraq, claimed responsibility for Thursday’s attack, in which two gunmen armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles fired indiscriminately at tourists inside the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, wounding dozens.

The British woman who died was identified as Sally Adey, 58, a retired solicitor and married mother of two from Shropshire.

The raid shocked Tunisia, regarded as a bastion of moderate Islam and the only success story to emerge from the so-called Arab Spring, and raised fears that it could cripple the country’s vital tourism sector.

Isil praised the two gunmen, who were shot dead by police, in an audio recording in Arabic, calling them “knights of the Islamic State”.
The dead terrorists, who were dressed in sweatshirts and trainers, were identified as Hatem al-Khashnawi and Yassin al-Abidi, both reportedly Tunisian.
Abidi had spent time in Iraq and Libya, according to Tunisian media reports.
He was known to the authorities but “not for anything very special”, said Habib Essid, the Tunisian prime minister. “Their affiliation is not clear at the moment,” he added.
The authorities said that four of the people arrested had direct links to the assault, while the other five had an indirect connection.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the locked gates of the Bardo Museum, renowned for its collection of Roman mosaics, to protest against the attack, voicing sympathy for the victims and concern for their country’s future.