article_snippet: (CNN)ISIS apparently claimed responsibility Thursday for the deadly terrorist attack at a landmark museum in the heart of that country's capital, a mass shooting that has shaken the birthplace of the Arab Spring and stirred questions about militants in that country.
article_snippet: In an audio statement posted online Thursday, ISIS identified two men -- Abu Zakariya al-Tunisi and Abu Anas al-Tunisi -- ISIS said used "automatic weapons and hand grenades" to kill and injure what ISIS called "crusaders and apostates" in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.
article_snippet: The current U.S. thinking is the attack may have been carried out by local "franchise" adherents to ISIS, rather than centrally directed by the Islamist extremist group's leadership, which is now thought to be in Syria.
article_snippet: It's not clear if those two men were the pair killed at the museum by Tunisian security forces, or if it's possible those two men're the same people as those identified -- using new names -- in ISIS' audio statement.
article_snippet: This raises the possibility that the museum attack could be ISIS' debut on the Tunisian stage, timed to precede a pledge of allegiance from Tunisian jihadis for maximum impact," CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said.
article_snippet: the museum attack may have been in and about Tunisia, but the vast majority of the victims were foreigners.
article_snippet: It's too early to tell how tourists will react to the attack.