Sunday, January 23, 2011

Jan. 23 updates

• The country has come to the city, and not necessarily in a good way. A caravan from Sidi Bou Zid governorate has arrived in Tunis to protest; overwhelming Ghannouchi's offices and lending to a renewed climate of fear.
• France24 has a typically great piece - this about the online humor around the revolution.
• Good to see you cousin, when are you leaving?: Egyptian press report that negotiations are underway to move the Ben Alis out of Saudi Arabia, and into Egypt. Good God, if Hosni thinks he has problems NOW...
• Rachid Ghannouchi of the Islamist 'Ennadha' Party has left London, and is chillin' in the Gulf States before his expected 'big return' to Tunis.
• A few more of The Family have escaped to Canada, where they apparently have resident status.
• From one of our friends' Facebooks - the funniest YouTube you'll ever see on the Flight of the Conquereds.
• Marches are planned for Monday morning by unionists in Tunis; Gabes; Jendouba, and more.
• One radio station, and the private Hannibal network went off the air for a while, its director charged with treason. Seems ominous.

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