Tunisia sacks interior minister as riots continue

13 Jan. 2011 | Eileen Byrne and Roula Khalaf (Washington Post)
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    TUNIS - Tunisia's
    government on
    Wednesday
    announced the
    dismissal of the
    interior minister and
    plans to investigate
    corruption allegations
    as the rioting that has
    racked the country
    for weeks reached
the capital, Tunis.

Army trucks were seen moving through streets on the city's outskirts
late Tuesday, with police firing tear gas and shooting into the air to
deter groups of youths who had torched shops and banks in poor
neighborhoods. Some office workers headed for home early
Wednesday in expectation of further unrest...More
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"Tunisia is the smallest
of the nations situated
along the Atlas mountain
range. The south of the
country is composed of
the Sahara desert, with
much of the remainder
consisting of particularly
fertile soil and 1,300 km
of coastline. Both played
a prominent role in
ancient times, first with
the famous Phoenician
city of Carthage, then as
the Africa Province
which was known as the
"bread basket".
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WikiLeaks had a part in Ben Ali’s downfall

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    Have we just witnessed the
    first WikiLeaks-inspired
    revolution? It is clear that
    leaked cables from the US
    Ambassador in Tunis,
    describing the opulent
    lifestyle of President Zine el-
    Abidine Ben Ali's family and
    the public loathing for his
wife, Leila Trabelsi, played an important role in firing up the nation's
disaffected youth.

Spreading the word via Twitter and Facebook, young Tunisians felt
encouraged in their protests by the fact that the corruption inside the
presidential palace at Carthage, and throughout Ben Ali's extended
family, was now common knowledge...More

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