article_snippet: Because had They done so, we would have had major catastrophe," President Beji Caid Essebsi told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
article_snippet: Most of the victims were foreigners and 19 were tourists who'd been on two cruise ships that docked in Tunis.
article_snippet: Beji Caid Essebsi said Beji Caid Essebsi believed the attackers were members of ISIS who had been trained in Libya.
article_snippet: This echoed comments made by Tunisia's Security Minister Rafik Chelly on Friday, who said two attackers had been given weapons training at Libyan camps and had been activated from sleeper cells.
article_snippet: In an audio message posted online Thursday, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
article_snippet: an audio message posted online Thursday said the group had targeted "crusaders and apostates" with "automatic weapons and hand grenades" in bloodshed that was "just the start."  CNN cannot independently verify the legitimacy of the audio statement.
article_snippet: But, Yassine Labidi said, Yassine Labidi believed Yassine Labidi and other young Tunisians like Yassine Labidi were also victims of terrorism -- of the recruiters who paid Yassine and other young Tunisians money, organized the logistics and took Yassine and other young Tunisians to places like Syria and Libya to train as fighters.
article_snippet: Laura Smith-Spark and Claudia Morales contributed to this report.