Epstein Secrets

Peace Prize EFTA00673212 Inline image 1 Although there is still unrest in the country, one of the biggest successes of The Arab Spring has to be Tunisia. This former North African colony of almost eleven million people which became independent of France on March 20, 1956 was led by Zine El Abidine Be

the President's nephews, from Leila's side, who were accused by the French State prosecutor of having stolen two mega-yachts from a French marina. Ben Ali's son-in-law Sakher El Mated was rumored as being primed to eventually take over the country. Independent human rights groups, such as Amnesty Interna

charges of tax fraud and corruption. It will be interesting to see if Berlusconi will flee like a predecessor Bettino Craxi who in May 1994 fled to Tunisia to escape jail and remained a fugitive there, protected by Ben Ali's government until his death on 19 January 2000. Weekend Reading Last week my q

if Berlusconi will flee like a predecessor Bettino Craxi who in May 1994 fled to Tunisia to escape jail and remained a fugitive there, protected by Ben Ali's government until his death on 19 January 2000. Weekend Reading Last week my quote of the week was: "There is a new generation of business leaders

discredited for having collaborated with the Mubarak regime — dozens of organisations have been legalised or are in the process of being so. As in Tunisia, it is hard to know how much influence each of these parties has. There are many organisations with liberal, secular leanings, such as the social

e want the end of the division!" While Egyptians and Tunisians had by then jettisoned Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's Rally for Constitutional Democracy, the March 15 movement was in effect asking Palestinian equivalencies not to disband, but team up. The irony wa

E7lir ;New Uork atinicr, Qaddafi's Death Places Focus on Arab Spring's `Hard Road' By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK TUNIS - Like the flight of Tunisia's dictator or the trial of Egypt's, the capture of Col. Muammar el- Qaddafi on Thursday afternoon captivated the Arab world, giving a renewed sense

e middle class, an apolitical military, a moderate Islamist movement and a long history of a unified national identity. But with the removal of Mr. Ben Ali's strong hand, the Tunisian elite has been bitterly divided by many of the questions soon to confront Libya, especially the role of Islam in their new