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Star Wars Day: How real-life Tatooine location became ISIS waypoint

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ISIS and now Covid.Tataouine in south Tunisia was George Lucas's inspiration for the name of Luke Skywalker’s home planet.Die-hard fans often made pilgrimages to film sets in the country in the fringes of the Sahara Desert.The stunning underground "cave dwellings" of the native Berber population were always the major draw for tourists and filmmakers.They were made a world-famous sight since their first appearance in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1977, providing tourism jobs in a barren landscape where average temperatures range from -1.8C to 48.6C.In 2012, even Nasa scientists came to the city to take a sample from a meteorite to prove that there was water on Mars.

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