[NYTIMES] The Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group grabbed credit Thursday for the attack that killed 21 people at a museum. But Tunisian authorities said the two slain gunnies had no clear links to Lion of Islams, and analysts said existing murderous Moslem cells are merely being inspired by the group, rather than establishing its presence across North Africa.
Yesterday they were merely applauding it and urging more of the same.
Police announced the arrest of five people described as directly tied to the two gunnies who opened fire Wednesday at the National Bardo Museum. Four others said to be supporters of the cell also were tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in central Tunisia, not far from where a group claiming allegiance to al-Qaeda's North African branch has been active.
Tunisians stepped around trails of blood and broken glass outside the museum to rally in solidarity with the 21 victims -- most of them foreign tourists from cruise ships -- and with the country's fledgling democracy. Marchers carried signs saying, "No to terrorism," and "Tunisia is bloodied but still standing."
In claiming responsibility for the attack, the Islamic State group issued a statement and audio on jihadi websites applauding the dead gunnies as "knights" for their "blessed invasion of one of the dens of infidels and vice in Moslem Tunisia."
Several well-gangs in neighboring and chaotic Libya have already pledged their allegiance to Islamic State based in Iraq and Syria, but the attack of such magnitude in Tunisia -- the only country to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings with a functioning democracy -- raised concern about the spread of extremism to the rest of North Africa.