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People walk by as as a police officer guards the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, Thursday, March 19, 2015. Tunisian security forces arrested nine people linked to the deadly attack on the National Bardo Museum that left scores dead and wounded and threatened the country's fledgling democracy and struggling tourism industry, the president's office said Thursday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Terror attack in Tunisia a fresh blow to tourism industry

By Beth J. Harpaz - Associated Press

Tunisian police officers gather at the entrance of the morgue of the Charles Nicolle hospital in Tunis Tunisia, Thursday, March 19, 2015. The radical Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack on a famed Tunis museum that left 23 people dead. (AP Photo / Michel Euler)

Tunisian official: 2 gunmen trained in Libya before attack

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Policemen guard the entrance of the Bardo museum in Tunis, Tunisia, Thursday, March 19, 2015, as a a blood stain is seen at right, a day after gunmen opened fire killing over 20 people, mainly tourists. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Tunisian authorities arrest nine in deadly museum attack; Islamic State claims credit

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Rescue workers evacuate children, left, and adults after gunmen opened fire at the Bardo museum in Tunisia's capital, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 in Tunis. Authorities say scores of people are dead after an attack on a major museum in the Tunisian capital, and some of the gunmen may have escaped. (AP Photo/Ali Ben Salah)

SUGHED: Islamic State takes credit for Tunisia attack that left 20 tourists dead

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Tunisians holding candles pray at the entrance gate of the National Bardo Museum where scores of people were killed after gunmen staged an attack, Tunis, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Foreign tourists scrambled in panic Wednesday after militants stormed a museum in Tunisia's capital and killed scores of people, &quot;shooting at anything that moved,&quot; a witness said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Tunisia: Gunman known to intelligence ahead of attack

By Jamey Keaten and Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

Tourists and visitors from the Bardo museum are evacuated in Tunis, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 in Tunis, Tunisia. Gunmen opened fire at a leading museum in Tunisia's capital, killing 19 people including 17 tourists, the Tunisian Prime Minister said. A later raid by security forces left two gunmen and one security officer dead but ended the standoff, Tunisian authorities said. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

Two gunman dead following attack that killed 19 at Tunisian museum

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Minister: Drops in French tourism to Tunisia

Associated Press

Islamist fighters battle near Tripoli International Airport. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Libya Islamic militias declare control of Benghazi

By Omar Almosmari and Maggie Michael - Associated Press

** FILE ** Smoke rises from the direction of Tripoli airport in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Rival militias battled Sunday for the control of the international airport in Libya's capital, as gunfire and explosions echoed through the city and airlines canceled some international flights. (AP Photo)

U.S. evacuates embassy in Libya amid violent clashes between militias

Associated Press

Star Wars fans wearing stormtrooper costumes parade along Tunis’ stately, tree-lined Bourguiba Avenue, in Tunisia, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. The empire was not striking back against the poster child for Arab democracy — just an innovative campaign to encourage tourists to return to this sunny desert-and-beach nation in North Africa. &quot;We came here to Tunis to help save the Star Wars sites in Matmata and Tozeur and convince people to return to Tunisia,&quot; said Ingo Kaiser, head of a Star Wars fan club in Europe, referring to the movie sets that are slowly being covered up by sand in the Tunisian desert. (AP Photo/Aimen Zine)

Tunisia turns to Star Wars to boost tourism

By PAUL SCHEMM and BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA - Associated Press

Colombia's Juan Cuadrado, right, duels for the ball against Tunisia' s Ammar Jemal during an international friendly soccer match at Cornella-El Prat stadium in Cornella Llobregat, Spain, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

World Cup-bound Colombia draws with Tunisia 1-1

Associated Press

Tunisian investigators examine the site of a Libyan Antonov 26 aircraft that crashed near the village of Benyanou at 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Tunis, the capital, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. A medical flight from Libya crashed in a field near Tunis in the early hours of Friday morning, killing all 11 Libyans on board, Tunisia's civil defense said. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

Medical flight crashes in Tunisia, 11 Libyans die

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

A hooded member of the Tunisian anti-terrorist police forces (BAT) walks near a house where suspected Islamist militants were hidden in Raoued, near Tunis, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Tunisia's police exchanged gunfire with a group of suspected Islamic militants holed up in a house in a suburb near the capital on Tuesday, leaving two militants and a policeman dead, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aimen Zine)

8 dead in Tunisia shootout with Islamists

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA - Associated Press

Cape Verde loses bid to be reinstated in World Cup

Associated Press

Illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

MARTIN and ROHAC: Tunisia’s leaders shrug off economic freedom for the people

By Emmanuel Martin and Dalibor Rohac