OMRANE SUPERIEUR — TUNISIA — Shortly before he and a friend gunned down 20 foreign tourists at Tunisia's Bardo Museum, Yassine Al-Abidi sat down to a breakfast of olive oil and dates with his family and left for work at his travel agency as usual. His relatives, mourning his death in a hail of police bullets in the midst of the attack, said they could not understand how a lively, popular young man with a taste for the latest imported clothes could have done such a thing. They said he was typical of the young men of Tunis' Omrane Superieur suburb. He graduated in French, held down a job and showed no sign of the hardline ideology that would drive him to commit the worst militant attack in a decade. But relatives said last year he had begun to spend more and more time at a local mosque, following a pattern of radicialization of Tunisian young men who then find themselves fighting in Syria, Iraq and Libya. “I am sad for Yassine, but even sadder for the victims that Yassine killed. They were innocent,” said his uncle Mohamed Abidi. “They are the victims of terrorism. We are the victims of a demagogic network that wants only death.” — Reuters
