International Business Times quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia and what it means for Tunisia’s tourism industry:
“For a country like Tunisia, if you choke off tourist revenue that’s certainly going to be a blow to the newly elected secular-leaning government,” said J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. “Tunisia relies heavily on tourism revenue.”
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“You want to keep that safe territory or passage territory or rear base open, and when you’re denied that then you begin to lash out,” Pham said.
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“Propaganda, weakening the government and delegitimizing it,” Pham said. “It’s a perfect trifecta for an extremist group.”