TUNISIA'S MESSAGE

摘要

Ben Ali's fall has exposed the rotten truth of every regime in the Arab world: they're all, in effect, mafia states, each operating as a lucrative family business. At first, the family of tunisia's top-pled president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, refused to accept that its decades of pillage and profligacy were over. As rioting killed scores of people in Tunisia's streets, Ben Ali's daughter and her husband holed up in a luxury suite at Disneyland Paris. Ben Ali's wife, Leila Trabelsi, flying out of Tunisia aboard her own jet, grabbed as much money as she could-including, by some accounts, a ton and a half of gold from the nation's central bank.