NOUREDDINE JEBNOUN, [beginning Tues. 2:00 pm ET]
Available for a very limited number of interviews with major media outlets, Jebnoun is visiting assistant professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He said today: “Today, in Tunisia, a new government has been announced and mainly led by the same old guard of criminals from the Constitutional Democratic Rally, which is neither ‘constitutional’ nor ‘democratic’ but an aggregation of thugs and criminals that Tunisian people, who sacrificed themselves for freedom and dignity, must place under trial. I will not recognize this government and I do not consider this government representative of the genuine aspirations of the heroic Tunisian people. Our people who were killed by the snipers of the praetorian Presidential Guard as well as by mercenaries hired by [ousted dictator/President] Ben Ali from Belarus and Serbia deserve better compensation than being represented by this mediocre political class; which in reality has neither legitimacy nor credibility. [Read more...]