Militants kill 8 in attack on major Tunisian museum, take hostages, interior ministry says

FoxNews.com ^ | March 18, 2015

[Lonely Bull]

Militants shot and killed at least eight people at a leading museum in Tunisia Wednesday and have taken several more hostage, the county’s interior ministry said.

Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said on Radio Mosaique that only one of the dead in Wednesday's attack was a Tunisian. He did not provide nationalities for the others. Poland's Foreign Ministry announced that three Poles were among the wounded.

Security forces filled the area around the National Bardo Museum in Tunis after the attack. Tunisia's parliament building, near the museum, was being evacuated, according to a tweet by parliament member Sayida Ounissi.

The interior ministry said tourists were taken hostage by militants, but did not disclose how many, Reuters reports. An anti-terror unit is inside the building trying to free the hostages.

However, local media also reported that Tunisian police have rescued the hostages.

[Red Badger]

Carthago delenda est...............

[ConservativeStatement]

Aussies? Danes? Finns?

[BenLurkin]

[PfromHoGro]

The radio report said they didn’t know who was responsible. /s

[JimRed]

Apparently museums are the new “un-Islamic” thing...

[allendale]

Statum.

[realcleanguy]

Why do they call them militants? In the US, Ethnic leaders of the Black Panthers, La Raza, Act-up, and NOW are called militants, but they don’t go to museums and kill people. Let’s call them what they are, terrorists

[Red Badger]

Mox...............

[Uncle Miltie]

Fox refuses to say “Islamic”?

[PghBaldy]

For some reason, I remembered this (2002 Tunisia terrorism) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghriba_synagogue_bombing

[GOPJ]

If this keeps happening people will become prejudiced against ISIS... maybe Starbucks can encourage coffee clerks to have ‘conversations’ with Americans - explain that people in ISIS are people first - people who have feelings just like the rest of us.

[oldplayer]

“Militants? “Militants?” Shouldn’t the headline say Islamic Terrorists or Islamic Murderers?

Lots of people are so-called “militants” with strongly held convictions against one thing or another, but they don’t kill people for that reason.

Just sayin’.

Oldplayer

[molson209]

Obama’s speech in Cairo still rattling around

[jmacusa]

Why in the world to people want to vacation in these Islamist pestholes?

[tcrlaf]

Per CNN it’s now 17 tourists, two attackers dead. with three attackers still on the run.

The religion of pieces strike, yet again.

[tcrlaf]

Breaking News Feed 13 minutes ago
TUNIS MUSEUM ATTACK:
- Total of 19 killed
- 17 foreign tourists killed
- 2 police officers killed
- 38 hospitalized

[dfwgator]

This is why you don’t visit Muslim countries.

[tcrlaf]

From Twitter Pic believed to have been taken by a hostage. Note this is unconfirmed:

[tcrlaf]

Shouldn’t this be in Breaking news???