Secret phone calls shed light on Tunisia鈥檚 Ben Ali鈥檚 last 48 hours
As protests rocked Tunisia, aides of the former president urge him to stay away from the country
The 91热爆 has obtained extraordinary recordings which we believe to be of phone calls made by a former Middle East dictator, Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, as he flew out of the country in 2011. The recordings give an insight into the change in Ben Ali's mood in the last 48 hours of his regime, as he slowly begins to grasp the true impact of protests rocking his feared police state.
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