of militants. you have the islamic state that most likely carried out the attacks in kuwait. a classical suicide bombing against a shia community. we have seen multiple attacks against sheia mosques. the attack in tunisia is the most alarming and strategic opposed to tactical. it is a strategic pattern emerging in the last few months to attack the nerve center of the country, to paralyze the government to bleed the economy. to basically derail the transitional process. tunisia is one of the most promising countries in the arab world. by target ing the economy and as your correspondent has made it very clear, the economy, the tourism sector is the nerve center of the economy. it employs 500,000 tunisians. 500,000 tunisians and employment
as nick rightly points out very little security presence here given the weight of this story. i want to get you to kuwait which is waking up to the aftermath of the first terror attack in that country in more than two decades. an explosion at a shiite mosque killed 27 and wounded 200 others. it happened during friday prayers, traditionally the busiest time of the week. isis has claimed responsibility for its calling a suicide bombing. today has been declared a day of mourning for the victims. ben weidman has the latest. cell phone video shows worshipers walking through a dust and rubble filled interior many with their white robes splattered in blood. the mosque had been full of worshipers there for friday prayers during the whole month of ramadan.
live from our london bureau a professor of middle eastern politics at the london school of economics and regular guest on cnn. there seems to be no evidence of tactical coordination between these attacks in tunisia here in france and in kuwait. certainly a common thread. your analysis. you are absolutely correct, becky. there s no we don t know. no seemingly coordination for the attacks but i think there is a threat running through the three attacks yesterday. it is a traveling ideology. it is a spreading ideology. a mutating ideology and that s the ideology that the global jihadist movement. so you have different parts now
me. to kuwait a country that hasn t seen a terror attack on its soil in over two decades. sadly that s no longer the case. isis is claiming its behind the explosion that ripped through a shiite mosque in kuwait city during friday prayer. the group is calling it a suicide bombing. that blast reportedly killed at least 27 worshipers and left 200 more wounded. this video shows the aftermath inside the mosque rubble and blood seen scattered across the carpet. saturday is declared a day of mourning there in kuwait for the victims. for the latest i want to bring in cnn correspondent joining me live from amman in jordan. what is the reaction been from authorities there? well becky, what we are hearing from the kuwaiti state news agency saying the interior ministry is interrogating a number of people suspected of
for example nato interwar. and when you talk about the kuwait attack as well what we are seeing here is as much the militant group isis doing internal issues and aggravation within these countries as it is tachly targeting westerners and others at these mosques and hotels. well becky, yes. we don t have the information yet. we know that what happened yesterday is a strategic target. we know what happened in march in ton nis nis was a stra teej ic target. so this particular attack is strategic, not tactical. we also know that libya has emerged as a major source of supplies of weapons, of training and fighters. and even though they don t have the information, it seems to me