"Rioting in Tunisia claims more lives" by Associated Press / January 10, 2011
TUNIS, Tunisia — At least 11 people have died in clashes with security forces in new rioting in Tunisia, where unrest is in its fourth week, local union officials said yesterday....
And this was the first I've read of it.
Rioting to protest joblessness and other social ills has scarred numerous cities across this tiny country since Dec. 17, after a man with a university degree set himself on fire when police confiscated his fruits and vegetables for selling without a permit.
Mobs have since attacked public buildings and the local office of the party of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali....
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"Tunisian leader pledges greater freedom" by Associated Press / January 14, 2011
TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s autocratic president, struggling to contain deadly riots that have destabilized his authority, made sweeping pledges for political and media freedom and said he will leave the presidency — but not until his term ends in 2014.
Reminds one of a deathbed conversion -- sort of.
Facing the worst unrest in his 23 years in power, an unusually contrite President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ordered prices on sugar, milk, and bread slashed. Buoyant crowds spilled into the streets after his speech, many cheering his price cuts but some questioning his commitment to real change.
His bold pledges appeared aimed at quelling public anger while allowing him to cling to power in Tunisia, a country long cherished by European tourists for its Mediterranean beaches and its stability and seen as an ally against terrorism.
It remained to be seen whether Ben Ali’s speech will mean an end to violence that has left at least 23 dead. Unions plan a general strike today in Tunis and some other regions.
Calling for a “cease-fire,’’ Ben Ali told his nation in a televised speech, “I have understood you.’’
Anger at unemployment, and at a leadership many see as controlling and corrupt, has exploded into protests and clashes with police over the past few weeks.
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"Amid protests, Tunisia president flees country; Protest-driven ouster is a first in Arab world" by David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times / January 15, 2011
TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, fled his country last night, capitulating after a month of mounting protests calling for an end to his 23 years of authoritarian rule. A Saudi Arabian television network reported that he had landed in Jidda, but that could not be independently confirmed.
The fall of Ben Ali marked the first time that widespread street demonstrations have overthrown an Arab leader. And even before the last clouds of tear gas had drifted away from the capital’s Bourguiba Boulevard, people throughout the Arab world had begun debating whether Tunisia’s uprising could prove to be a model, threatening other autocratic rulers in the region.
“What happened here is going to affect the whole Arab world,’’ said Zied Mhirsi, a 33-year-old doctor protesting outside the Interior Ministry.
He carried a sign highlighting how he believed Tunisia’s protests could embolden the swelling numbers of young people around the Arab world.
Because the protests came together largely through informal online networks, their success has also raised questions about whether a new opposition movement has formed that could challenge whatever government takes shape....
That is New York Times code for the Internet influence and a people's movement.
News of the president’s departure followed, by just hours, the biggest battle yet between the protesters and security forces. Emboldened by a last-minute pledge from Ben Ali to stop shooting demonstrators, as many as 10,000 people poured into the streets. But when they paraded the body of a person said to have been shot elsewhere in the city, the waiting rows of police officers stormed the crowd, filling the streets with a thick cloud of tear gas and hammering fleeing demonstrators with clubs....
Ben Ali, a former prime minister who took power in a bloodless coup, was only the second president of the country, which won independence from France in 1956.
Last night, the capital remained under a tight curfew. Groups of more than two people were forbidden on the streets after 5 p.m., and no one was allowed out after 8 p.m. State media warned that police would shoot curfew violators on sight. Tanks and other security forces were deployed around the city, and the airport was shut down.
As night fell, security forces armed with machine guns and clubs could be seen chasing down stragglers. Dozens have died in clashes with the police over the past week, and continued gun shots were reported well after curfew from several neighborhoods around the capital as sporadic riots continued.
The United States had counted Tunisia under Ben Ali as an important ally in battling terrorism. But yesterday, President Obama said in a statement that he applauded “the courage and dignity of the Tunisian people.’’
Translation: the U.S. has abandoned him.
“The United States stands with the entire international community in bearing witness to this brave and determined struggle for the universal rights,’’ he said, adding, “we will long remember the images of the Tunisian people seeking to make their voices heard.’’
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
The antigovernment protests began a month ago when a college-educated street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid named Mohamed Bouaziz burned himself to death over the frustration and joblessness confronting many educated young people here. But the protests he inspired quickly evolved from bread-and-butter issues to demands for an assault on the perceived corruption and self-enrichment of the ruling family.
That is a bread-and-butter issue.
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Related:
Today we are all Tunisians
Yvonne Ridley pays tribute to the courage of the Tunisian people and reminds us of the stark fact that all the time when the deposed Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was torturing and plundering his people, he had the full support of the USA and European governments.
I guess that's why I never read of any such things on the rare occasion Tunisia made the paper.
And given the attention this is getting in my agenda-pushing paper:
"Think of Blackwater/Xe, Triple Canopy, Dyncorps, Aegis...
Think of moving Tunisia out of the orbit of France and China and into the orbit of America-Israel?
Think of regime change in Tunisia being followed by regime change in OIL-RICH Algeria and Libya.
Think of the CIA's links to the Muslim Brotherhood. (THE CIA'S MOSLEM FRIENDS, FROM BIN LADEN TO THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD.)
According to a comment on the Guardian website (Cached):
"You can see who is directing the protests right here, on Ikhwanweb.
"Ikhwan is the Muslim Brotherhood.
"The MB is the Wahhabi jihad outfit run by Saudi Arabia.
"Saudi Arabia is the USA's jihad-exporting ally.
"Jihad is the excuse the USA needs to occupy more oil-rich Muslim states and expand its global-cop-on-the-make racket."
According to Aljazeera (Looters roam suburbs of Tunis)
People in Tunis have reported groups "prowling through neighbourhoods setting fire to buildings and attacking people and property."
Witnesses have spoken to Al Jazeera about "masked special forces" and "foreign militias."
In an interview with Al Jazeera, caretaker president Mohamed Ghannouchi said that "Gangs are indulging in looting, wreaking havoc and destruction and spreading fear among citizens."
In working-class suburbs of Tunis, hundreds of residents lined the streets with metal bars and knives trying to ward off looters.
'Ben Ali, former Tunisian president who predicted Muslim Brotherhood takeover'
What was happening in Tunisia under Ben Ali?
"Substandard houses were eradicated and decent houses, provided with drinking water, electricity, solar energy…
"Roads were built, too to facilitate access to the amenities.
"Schools were built near these scattered and small communities to allow especially girls to be educated." (Cached)
Tunisia, under Ben Ali, was prosperous. Tunisia boasts a GDP per capita of roughly $8,000, among the highest in Africa, and education levels that outrank much of the developing world.
Meanwhile, the CIA seems to be working with the Muslim Brotherhood....
Meanwhile, whatreallyhappened.com has been taken in by the CIA? -Social conflict in Maghreb has international implications. / Tunisians drive president from power
And Prison Planet also? - Behind Tunisia Unrest, Rage Over Wealth of Ruling Family
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CIA WRECKS ANOTHER COUNTRY?
CIA PSY-OP IN TUNISIA?
CIA-NATO COUP IN TUNISIA?
BIG CHANGES - SAUDI ARABIA TO TUNISIA
MOSSAD MAYHEM IN MAGHREB MEDINAS?
OBAMA PREPARING COUP IN TUNISIA?
Tunisia: SOROS OR SOME CHINESE GUY? ELLIOT ABRAMS SPEAKS
CIA COUP IN TUNISIA, AIDED BY WIKILEAKS?
PEOPLE POWER - THE CIA CONNECTION----"
I guess that's why I never read of any such things on the rare occasion Tunisia made the paper.
And given the attention this is getting in my agenda-pushing paper:
"Think of Blackwater/Xe, Triple Canopy, Dyncorps, Aegis...
Think of moving Tunisia out of the orbit of France and China and into the orbit of America-Israel?
Think of regime change in Tunisia being followed by regime change in OIL-RICH Algeria and Libya.
Think of the CIA's links to the Muslim Brotherhood. (THE CIA'S MOSLEM FRIENDS, FROM BIN LADEN TO THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD.)
According to a comment on the Guardian website (Cached):
"You can see who is directing the protests right here, on Ikhwanweb.
"Ikhwan is the Muslim Brotherhood.
"The MB is the Wahhabi jihad outfit run by Saudi Arabia.
"Saudi Arabia is the USA's jihad-exporting ally.
"Jihad is the excuse the USA needs to occupy more oil-rich Muslim states and expand its global-cop-on-the-make racket."
According to Aljazeera (Looters roam suburbs of Tunis)
People in Tunis have reported groups "prowling through neighbourhoods setting fire to buildings and attacking people and property."
Witnesses have spoken to Al Jazeera about "masked special forces" and "foreign militias."
In an interview with Al Jazeera, caretaker president Mohamed Ghannouchi said that "Gangs are indulging in looting, wreaking havoc and destruction and spreading fear among citizens."
In working-class suburbs of Tunis, hundreds of residents lined the streets with metal bars and knives trying to ward off looters.
'Ben Ali, former Tunisian president who predicted Muslim Brotherhood takeover'
What was happening in Tunisia under Ben Ali?
"Substandard houses were eradicated and decent houses, provided with drinking water, electricity, solar energy…
"Roads were built, too to facilitate access to the amenities.
"Schools were built near these scattered and small communities to allow especially girls to be educated." (Cached)
Tunisia, under Ben Ali, was prosperous. Tunisia boasts a GDP per capita of roughly $8,000, among the highest in Africa, and education levels that outrank much of the developing world.
Meanwhile, the CIA seems to be working with the Muslim Brotherhood....
Meanwhile, whatreallyhappened.com has been taken in by the CIA? -Social conflict in Maghreb has international implications. / Tunisians drive president from power
And Prison Planet also? - Behind Tunisia Unrest, Rage Over Wealth of Ruling Family
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CIA WRECKS ANOTHER COUNTRY?
CIA PSY-OP IN TUNISIA?
CIA-NATO COUP IN TUNISIA?
BIG CHANGES - SAUDI ARABIA TO TUNISIA
MOSSAD MAYHEM IN MAGHREB MEDINAS?
OBAMA PREPARING COUP IN TUNISIA?
Tunisia: SOROS OR SOME CHINESE GUY? ELLIOT ABRAMS SPEAKS
CIA COUP IN TUNISIA, AIDED BY WIKILEAKS?
PEOPLE POWER - THE CIA CONNECTION----"
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Also see: Operation Mockingbird
I'm reminded of all the attention Thailand got during the attempted Red Shirt coup -- and how the coverage pretty much disappeared afterward.
"Tunisia erupts in rioting, looting after president flees; Interim leader sworn in; next steps unclear" by Elaine Ganley and Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press / January 16, 2011
TUNIS, Tunisia — Looting, deadly prison riots, and street chaos engulfed Tunisia yesterday, a day after mass protests forced its strongman to flee. A new interim president was sworn in, promising to create a unity government that could include the long-ignored opposition.
It was the second change of power in this North African nation in less than 24 hours.
Amid the political instability, looters emptied shops and torched the main train station in Tunis, soldiers traded fire with assailants in front of the Interior Ministry, and thousands of European tourists sought a plane flight home.
The death toll mounted. At least 42 people were killed yesterday in a prison fire in one resort town, and the director of another prison in another tourist haven let 1,000 inmates flee after soldiers shot five dead amid a rebellion. Those deaths came on top of scores of others after a month of protests in which police often fired upon demonstrators.
After 23 years of autocratic rule, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali abruptly fled the country for Saudi Arabia on Friday following mass street protests over corruption, a lack of jobs, and clampdowns on civil liberties.
The leadership changes then came at a dizzying speed....
It was also unclear who would emerge as the country’s top political leaders, since Ben Ali utterly dominated politics, placing allies in power and sending opponents into jail or exile.
Must have been a U.S. ally for a long time because I never saw a word.
On the streets, the unrest was frightening....
A MSM tell.
Some rioters appeared to be targeting businesses owned by members of Ben Ali’s family, which had financial interests in a wide range of sectors, from banking to car dealerships.
Elites are the same in every nation.
In Tunis, a branch of the Zeitouna bank founded by Ben Ali’s son-in-law was torched....
:-)
Residents of some Tunis neighborhoods set up barricades and organized overnight patrols to deter rioters. In the tony El Menzah neighborhood, dozens of men and boys armed with baseball bats and clubs were taking turns on patrol — just as a broadcast on Tunisian television had urged citizens to do.
After reading some of the blog work and links I think I understand why.
“This isn’t good at all. I’m very afraid for the kids and myself,’’ said Lilia Ben Romdhan, a mother of three in outer Tunis. “If [Ben Ali] had stayed in the country it would be better.’’
Kamel Fdela, selling oranges and bananas in the same neighborhood, said he wanted democracy but was not sure that would happen. He also feared food shortages, with so many stores closed and others looted.
“God willing, a real man will take over,’’ he said.
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Related: Israeli PM: Tunisia reflects regional instability
I never saw that in my printed paper.
Or this:
"Is Tunisia a Zionist coup to take full control of the oil, gas of Algeria, Libya : An insight view
By Abu Suleyman for Veterans Today
All the fingerprints point to Israel’s apparatus in Washington and Zionist networks in North Africa.
As brilliantly explained by Jeff Gates, Wikileaks game theory warfare (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/01/wikileaks-%E2%80%93-more-israeli-game-theory-warfare/) are serving multiples purposes and multiples target. Are Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt ones of them in 2011?
YouTube - Veterans Today -
Important dates in Tunisia
In 2000, President Ben Ali, believed to be protected by Israeli Mossad and French security services (French Zionist Networks in North Africa), broke all diplomatic ties with Israel after the second intifada.
In 2009 – Tunisia signed an big economic and technical cooperation pact with China
YouTube - Veterans Today -
October 2010 – Sakhr El Materi, chairman of the Tunisia-US Parliamentary Friendship Group, and in law of Ben Ali (Materi is married to one of the Ben Ali’s daughter Nessrin) had talks with top Americans in the Pentagon and the State Department.
November 2010 – A cable from the US embassy in Tunis released by ‘wikileaks’ (describes Tunisia’s President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s family entourage as a “quasi Mafia” because of its “organized corruption”.
Mohamed Bouazizi. He “set himself on fire outside the governor’s office”. ( Mohamed Bouazizi.) Or he “set fire to himself at the bus station ? “ “He had apparently decided to go to Tunis and talk to the president…
he) arrived at the bus station.” It is believed that he did not died the 5th January but someone else died with the same family name.
17 December – Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old university graduate, reportedly set himself alight in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid in a protest over unemployment.
He reportedly died on January 5 from burns.
In Islam, suicide is considered a sin. It is forbidden.
There have been rumours that Mohamed Bouazizi is still alive
24 December 2010 – an important Washington think tank (Institute for Policy Studies) had an article about a possible change of regime in Tunisia (http://www.fpif.org/blog/immolations_draw_attention_to_wikileaks_tunisia_cables_part_4):
“It would do Tunisians, even (Tunisian President) Ben Ali, well to recall how many US allies different American administrations have discarded…”
7 January 2011 – the Council on Foreign Relations’s Elliott Abrams (Elliott Abrams: Is Tunisia Next?: http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2011/01/07/is-tunisia-next/) seems to suggest that the fall of Ben Ali would be a good thing.
“Tunisians are clearly sick of looking at all the giant photos and paintings of Ben Ali that appear on walls, posters, and billboards all over the country…
“If Tunisia can move toward democracy, Algerians and Egyptians and even Libyans will wonder why they cannot.”
8-10 January – More people die in three days of rioting. Mysterious rooftop snipers are at work.
13 January – The army withdraws from Tunis, which remains occupied by special forces.
The leaders of the North African branch of Al-Qaeda/CIA call for the overthrow of Ben Ali.
14 January – Ben Ali leaves the country.
Think of the NATO/CIA’s Operation Gladio
15 January
“Ben Ali … gave you security. Now that he’s gone, look at the destruction,” said Mohamed, a worker in a transport company as he surveyed a looted and burnt out appliances shop. (President’s exile leaves security vacuum)
“The main train station in Tunis has been torched, while gunfire was heard as soldiers intervened in attempts to stop looting in the city…
“The Reuters news agency reported that squads of men in civilian clothes were driving through Tunis at high speed, shooting randomly at buildings and people.” (Army on streets amid Tunisia unrest)
“In the capital of Tunis and other areas of the country, residents reported knife-wielding and balaclava-clad gangs attacking apartments and homes.
“Organised groups were said to be attacking shops, hospitals and factories.
“Many had piled into stolen hire cars and careered around the city and suburbs, stopping only to smash and burn.”
“The feel is very much that of a military takeover. It’s hard to catch a whiff of what is being called the Jasmine Revolution.” (Wedeman: Tunisia’s military putting boot on ‘Jasmine Revolution’) (source www.aangirfan.blogspot.com).
This was had been sent to me through the website during the last days, where deliberate chaos and turmoil is now affecting all the population in Tunisia:
‘We the people of the revolutionary Tunisia would like to share with the people of the world our happiness of the fall of a dictator leviathan by the willingness of the people and witness that the current situation is still unequivocally atrocious:
- No civil security: people do not feel secured in their own homes as miliciens appeared to have shooted many innocent unarmed civilians. These terrorists seemed to be part of the diminished regime of Ben Ali and are there to spread fear and panic among innocent people. These armed terrorists steal supermarkets and houses.
- No affordable food and water: we are on the verge of inflation as prices are climbing very high and water has been intoxicated in some parts of the country, the result of which many people are being treated in the hospital of Sahloul in Sousse.
- No reliable government: the current temporary government has always been an intrinsic part of the falling dictatorship. Although the head of the beast has fled to Saudi-Arabia, the rest of its body is still well alive in our country that is all the ministers and assistants and all the police forces who worked for the benefit of the dictator. We, with the support of all the people around the world who love to spread freedom in our human society, shall work together to extinguish all the forces of evil and spread true democracy and liberty not only in Tunisia but also in the Arab and Islamic countries as well as the whole planet.
This is a true example we give to all humanity that history has never recorded any case of granted freedom to the people, this is a true freedom made by the people and to the people. We are a rich country by the willingness of our people to live free of all kind of other dictatorship be it that of ex-colonizer, the French thievish regime, or the false democratic American system. ‘
Origins of the Zionist Networks in North Africa
The North African countries are ruled by military and police and are true dictatorship. The rulers were put in power by the French, and more specifically, the Arab Jewish administration ruling North Africa for France through the 1870 Decret Cremieux, which allowed the local Jewish population to take the French citizenship and to administrate the countries. I know that VT banned the Wikipedia but that’s the only link I found to explain it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Cr%C3%A9mieux)
Behind Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian services, we have French services, there was never any real independence. General Charles De Gaulle gave in fact the political ‘independence’ but kept the full supervision of the ultra rich in oil and gas Algeria, with the help of a special network of administrators.
The North African countries are all ruled by the military or the police and are true dictatorship. The rulers of the three countries were put in power by the French government which is the real governor.
Algeria and Libya has accused Mossad of being behind the riots in Algeria and Tunisia.
The Libyan foreign security agency has accused Mossad and Morocco.
http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/news/5530.html
Morocco is said to be an important CIA’s rendition program and a huge Zionist French secret networks operated by French secret services DST/DCRI, Morocco is a recruiting ground (there are several secret prisons where Muslims detained are tortured, and several camps, like the ones set up in Afghanistan and some place in Pakistan entirely managed by the French Zionist networks. One of the famous or ‘infamous’ group was the GIA for ‘Group Islamic Armed’, ancestor of the nowadays ‘Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’. These groups are managed by the Algerian, Moroccan secret services, and supervised from Paris by the French secret police the DCRI (Direction Centrale du Renseignement, formerly DST, Direction de la Surete du Territoire). French DCRI is ruled and controlled by the Arab sefarads mostly European settlers or their sons born in Algeria during the occupation. They are called les ‘Pieds Noirs’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-Noir), most of them are Jewish and were administrating the French colony directly.
According to Libya, the ‘Amazigh movement’ activists, backed by foreign intelligence services (Mossad), are leading a plan to break the Maghreb after succeeding in Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Yemen.
Have Mossad arranged the shootings in Tunisia?
8 westerners (4 Germans, 2 Swedish), were caught today firing on the Tunisian military in Central Tunis, they were heavily armed....
Tunisia’s Communications Minister has said: “Those who have spoken of 40 or 50 dead should produce a list of names…Police never fired on protesters.”
In this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAAn50NlfLA), you can see that the innocent protesters are shoot in the head, the neck and the chest.
Did you see these pictures somewhere else?
Yes! you are right, in Gaza, and occupied Palestine, do you connect the dot now?
Tunisia has oil, like Algeria and Libya and in the same area, near the border of the three countries. What a coincidence?
(http://www.deplc.com/projects/the-fawar-permit)
This map shows you the entire pipelines network at stake in the area
http://www.theodora.com/pipelines/north_africa_pipelines_map.jpg
Oil and gas existing pipelines. First they set up the fake ‘Al Qaeda in North Africa’ in 2005, to send troops in Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Fasso. Then they destabilized Nigeria and now Cote d’Ivoire to secure the routes in the South. Now after Sudan (China is still in control and is building a new pipelines from the south to Kenya). Now, they want to secure the routes in the North, and seize full control of Algeria, Libya oil and gas fields. Gas is the future, not oil. As the Obama administration is fighting the new gas deal association of Qatar, Russia, Algeria.
Best place to do it is…. Tunisia (at the border of the three countries, very rich in oil and gas) and where the US Anadarko is already prospecting for new huge fields.
| Initial production from the Hassi Berkine area is estimated at about 30,000 barrels of oil per day. As agreements are reached to develop additional discoveries made by the partners and pipeline capacity from the area is expanded, the partnership’s oil production from Algeria is expected to increase significantly after 1997. At the end of 1996 Lasmo announced a new discovery, together with the successful appraisal of a previous find. The EKT-1 well, located 20km north of the EME field, could hold reserves of between 100m – 250m barrels of oil. Other partners include US oil independent Anadarko and Maersk Oil. Based on current forecasts it is anticipated that by the turn of the century gross production from HBNS and BBN should reach around 250,000 bopd (approximately 30,000 bopd net to Lasmo). |
(http://www.dbd-data.co.uk/bb1998/other/lasmo5.gif)
http://www.dbd-data.co.uk/bb1998/other/lasmo.htm
In this European report (http://ec.europa.eu/energy/international/studies/doc/2010_11_supplying_eu_gas_market.pdf), you can see the new plans for the extension of the existing pipelines and new pipelines and new gas oil fields in prospection in Algeria and Libya to be seized by Israelis through American NATO troops.
Remind you of somewhere? Afghanistan where the Israeli TAPI pipeline is to be built form very rich gas fields production in Turkmenistan to India.
Do you connect the dots?
Libyan Kaddafi, who is believed to be the son of a French army pilot (http://www.bakchich.info/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=2718) and Algerian Bouteflika military regimes are on the brink of collapse. French-Israelis network in North Africa and American are behind the ‘Revolutions’, they are implementing chaos to turn the will of the people towards the so called ‘western forces’.
Why Tunisian general Rachid Ammar, the new man in power, left an exit door to Ben Ali. Ben Ali out, the Bourguiba mafia system (former president of Tunisia in the 1980s) is still in place, and now the NATO military command is coming in the North (naval base) and South of Tunisia (aerial base). The bases are to be build by the American contractors companies, to ‘secure’ as well the western front of Israel.
European Gas Demand, new pipelines to be built (2008)
(http://www.ekemeuroenergy.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120:strategic-euro-mediterranean-gas-pipelines-study-released&catid=49:eu-policies-&Itemid=66)
There is a belief that the US through NATO, Israel “have crafted a long-term joint security program in the Middle East and North Africa to downsize the world of Islam and disintegrate the countries there.”
“Attacks on churches in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia can be analyzed in the context of a Zionist scenario aimed at driving a wedge between Muslims and Arab Christians.”
General Rachid Ammar, the new man in power
General Rachid Ammar is the new ruler of the country, he is backed by the Israeli apparatus in Washington and he is very close to NATO and the Africom command led by General Ward.
General Rachid Ammar, special relation to Israel and NATO-Africom command.
Zionists are now trying to set up and open NATO military bases through the new general in charge, Rachid Ammar in Tunisia, very close to NATO command and the Israelis he meets regularly in the NATO ‘ Military Mediterranean Dialogue Contact Committee; (http://www.nato.int/multi/photos/2006/m061116b.htm).
What do you make of this?
In 2011, this is the first big move in North Africa to establish the Greater Middle East Plan to divide and seize the ultra rich oil and gas resources area in Algeria, Tunisia and Lybia, exactly like they did to Sudan, (Somalia and Yemen are terminals points to export the hydrocarbures from Africa and strategic places for the route of the oil and gas transportation)....
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I'm never going to see any of that in my newspaper:
"Tunisian military sides with interim government; Confusion still reigns after Ben Ali’s ouster; Former aides are arrested" by David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times / January 17, 2011
TUNIS — New battle lines appeared to take shape in traumatized Tunisia yesterday as the military backed the interim government in what state media portrayed as a fight against security forces loyal to ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, blaming them for the violence and rioting that has engulfed the country since protests forced him from power 48 hours earlier.
State television reported that the military had arrested Ben Ali’s former security chief, Ali Seriati, charging him with plotting against the government and inciting acts of violence. It also said a gunfight with Ben Ali’s security forces broke out near a former presidential palace here in the capital, and that the military had called in reinforcements as it battled other security forces in the southern part of the country....
The state news reports underscored the military’s growing role in sustaining the interim civilian government, sometimes against elements of the police force. It became clear yesterday that the military had stepped forward to help calm the streets of the capital, displacing and controlling the gangs of newly deputized police officers who had sometimes terrorized residents the day before.
As virtually the only pillar of government left intact, the military could play a pivotal role in determining whether a new autocrat or the first Arab democracy emerges from the tumult....
But determining who was in control or who was fighting whom here is also growing increasingly difficult. It was unclear how much responsibility Ben Ali’s loyalists bore for the chaos, or whether they were scapegoats. Many Tunisians, still seething at the flagrant corruption and brutal repression of Ben Ali’s rule, have been insisting without evidence for days that any riots and looting were the work of his police officers....
Who knows what to believe when it comes to AmeriKa's media?
The protests have been fueled in large part by anger at the great fortunes amassed in recent years by members of the president’s family as everyday Tunisians suffered soaring unemployment, and the rage evidently burned on after the family was gone.
Rioters ransacked several family mansions along with the Carthage headquarters of the president’s ruling party. They set scores of cars on fire apparently because they were sold at dealerships owned by the president’s billionaire son-in-law.
Fouad Mebazaa, the speaker of parliament and interim president, and Mohamed Ghannouchi, the prime minister, met yesterday with opposition party leaders about forming a unity government. Both are close allies of Ben Ali from the ruling party.
Ghannouchi announced that he expected to present a new unity government today.
Looking more and more like a CIA coup.
He is expected to push the deadline for new elections back from 60 days to six months. Tunisian analysts said that the new government might allow the political participation of banned parties like the Islamists.
Uh-oh!
General Rachid Ammar, the country’s top military official, is believed to have guided recent events in the government, including helping to usher Ben Ali from the scene.
And we know for whom he is working.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the Tunisian foreign minister, Kamel Morjane. She urged the new government to address popular concerns about economic opportunities, civil liberties, and democratic elections, the State Department said in a statement.
What a hypocrite.
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Related: Fidelity helps affiliate staff flee Tunisia
That made the front page of my Globe so you see who is important.
And at the bottom of the agenda?
"Arab leader’s fall inspires belief others could follow" by Hadeel Al-Shalchi, Associated Press / January 16, 2011
CAIRO — Celebrations over the Tunisian president’s ouster spread yesterday as the popular uprising raised hopes throughout the Arab world that it could inspire pressures for reforms across a region dominated by authoritative regimes.
But while Middle East leaders may face bolder calls for change — such as chants against Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak — the chances for other ruling systems to crumble quickly in domino-style fashion appear slim.
Many states with deep political rifts, such as Egypt and Iran, maintain vast security forces who are heavily vested in the status quo and who have shown no signs of breaking ranks to join protesters.
Yeah, good thing that could never happen in AmeriKa.
Still, the stunning rebellion in Tunisia against the 23-year rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali sent an unmistakable message to other leaders that no hold on power is guaranteed.
Yes, the NEO-CON ZIONISTS and the CIA are SENDING a MESSAGE to other Arab leaders.
“Now the bell is ringing and it should be a reminder to other leaders that people are fed up,’’ said political analyst Labib Kamhawi in Jordan, where more than 5,000 people rallied Friday to protest rising prices and demand the prime minister’s ouster.
This could also be true on a separate track because the people are fed up.... EVERYWHERE!
“They need political freedoms and serious economic reforms, that there must be an end to corruption and nepotism,’’ he added.
Funny. We AleriKans need the same.
Dozens of demonstrators rallied outside the Tunisian embassies yesterday in Cairo and Amman, Jordan.
Meanwhile, messages congratulating the Tunisian people flooded the Internet on Twitter, Facebook, and blogs, and many people replaced profile pictures with Tunisian flags....
I also applaud them since they are OUT THERE!
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