Inside Tunisia News Today

Wreckage. the cause of the crash still under investigation right now. up next the latest in tunisia. the government there talking about possible terrorist sleeper cells. well go there live. later, prime targets for terror. why militant groups are taking direct aim at international tourists. stay with us. with new angies list app, you can get projects done in a snap. take a photo of your project or just tell us what you need done and angies list will find a top rated provider to do the job. s...

Been steadily growing since september. lets bring back our panel. paul cruckshank retired lieutenant colonel rick francona and cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. why are these tourist attractions so important to these isis and other al qaeda-related terror organizations? >> this isnt about tourists or museums, its about money. you go back to earlier what we were talking about, mid-90s, one of the predecessors to al qaeda attacks luxor, egypt, the location of major tourist attractions and a ...

Tunisias democratically elected government? >> reporter: very much so. the existence of jihadi cells here in tunisia, well that is a known element, a known threat. it has been identified for some time. what this is is a combination potentially of that threat with the ongoing instability next door in libya. the government says the two gunmen crossed into libya, were trained in a camp near benghazi. the concern here is isis because thats territory that isis is known to have camps. the idea that el...

Operations that limit their ability to make money off tourists. >> paul if isis did in fact undertake this massacre at the museum in tunis this week and killed all these europeans and a few asians touring that museum over there, do they really think thats going to strengthen them propagandawise get more recruits if innocent people are slaughtered like this? >> i think phil is absolutely right, there is a potential backlash here that could happen in somewhere like tunisia. we actually saw that in...

>> thats absolutely right. the majority of victims in terrorist attacks over the last couple of decades have definitely been muslims. of course from isis and al qaedas point of view they dont think the shia are muslims. they think theyre heretics that need to be killed so theyre deliberately going after the shia. this is a very deliberate calculated attack in yemen to try to plunge the country into civil war. but i think, you know the vast majority of muslims around the world find this absolutel...

Spain. some talked about narrowly escaping the tragedy. >> you dont realize what happened. you dont know. we got on the ship. you turn the television on. oh tunisia! then you realize that you escaped from it but the other people are not lucky. >> our phil black is joining us live from tunis right now. most of the victims were europeans, a few asians. tell us about the departure of the survivors and the status of the victims right now, those who survived but remain in hospitals. >> reporter: wolf...