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Been steadily growing since september. let's 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 isn't about tourists or museums, it's 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 major turn for radicals in egypt. 20 years later the successors to al qaeda go after tourists in...

Tunisia's 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 that's territory that isis is known to have camps. the idea that elements from isis could continue to threaten the political stability of this country in an ongoing ...

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 that's 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 egypt after the luxor massacre in '97. that led to the defeat of jihadist groups in egypt pretty m...

>> that's 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 qaeda's point of view they don't think the shia are muslims. they think they're heretics that need to be killed so they're 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 absolutely horrific. the trouble is this radical fringe. inside tunisia, they're up to 40,000 followers,...