15-01-2011, 07:46 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:US supported and IMF/World Bank darling President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fled Tunisia and the country is apparently now being headed by the Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi (if not the military) who is not seen as a member of the Ben Alo clique and regarded fairly well by most Tunisians. Ben Ali is supposed to have gone to France but I have heard he has gone to Malta under protection of Lybia and I have also heard he has gone to Saudi Arabia and that the Saudi Officials have acknowledged this. There is still rioting and a military presence on the street in Tunisia. It will be interesting to see how things play out from here.
The word in the MSM is he is in S.A. As interesting as how this plays out in Tunisia, is how it will 'play out' in just about all of the other Arab countries run by dictators or authoritarian regimes [most to all of them]...as well as some non-Arab countries run the same way......People Power is the last think any Government really wants.
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass