OMRANE, SUPERIEUR TUNISIA ¨C Shortly before he and a friend gunned down 20 foreign tourists ¡ª including three Japanese ¡ª on Wednesday at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, 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.
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