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'Deposed Tunisian president is in a coma'
Jerusalem Post ^ | February 17, 2011

Posted on 02/17/2011 9:00:12 AM PST by Pan_Yan

Deposed Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had a stroke and is in a coma, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Thursday.

"The former head of state was admitted to an institution for Saudi princes under a false identity for security reasons," the paper reported. "His condition is worrying."

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benali; tunisia
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1 posted on 02/17/2011 9:00:17 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

There’s a lot of that going around.......must be a bug or something...............


2 posted on 02/17/2011 9:00:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: Pan_Yan

Seems to be contagious.


3 posted on 02/17/2011 9:01:12 AM PST by listenhillary (20 years in Reverend Wright's church is all I need to determine the "content of his character")
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To: Pan_Yan

Russian Flu???


4 posted on 02/17/2011 9:01:34 AM PST by BreitbartSentMe (ATLAS SHRUGGED was supposed to be a warning, NOT a newspaper.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Didn’t it get reported the same thing happened t w8o Mubarak?


5 posted on 02/17/2011 9:04:06 AM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: Red Badger

Must be a secret only muslim dictators know, must be why they refuse to leave quietly...


6 posted on 02/17/2011 9:04:06 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Pan_Yan

Didn’t it get reported the same thing happened t w8o Mubarak?


7 posted on 02/17/2011 9:04:20 AM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: diverteach

Yep, interesting coincidence isn’t it?


8 posted on 02/17/2011 9:05:34 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: diverteach

Yep. Mubarak was in a ‘coma’ as well. Does sound a lot like ‘Russian flu’


9 posted on 02/17/2011 9:05:48 AM PST by rstrahan
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To: Red Badger
Could it be .. the voice?
Mu'adib or Bene Gesserit, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

"Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history
have based their job security."
- Bene Gesserit Coda

10 posted on 02/17/2011 9:06:18 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Pan_Yan

Sounds like he is no longer useful to that wife of his. So she has eliminated him. With the president gone there is much less reason to go after her and all the money she has stolen.


11 posted on 02/17/2011 9:06:53 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Pan_Yan

It’s the stress of being overthrown-he’s an old guy! Where is he going to find another country to rule with an iron fist, at his age???


12 posted on 02/17/2011 9:07:15 AM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Red Badger

... just a age old mid eastern tradition that we are trying to enshrine when we invite these people to America under multiculturalism.....(we have already imported it into the White House).


13 posted on 02/17/2011 9:07:28 AM PST by himno hero
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To: Abathar

“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, 3 times is enemy action.” Auric Goldfinger


14 posted on 02/17/2011 9:07:33 AM PST by de.rm (It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see')
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If he’s in the hospital someone’s going to have to help his wife unload that 1.5 tons of gold bars she apprently put on the plane when leaving Tunisia.


15 posted on 02/17/2011 9:07:48 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

If dear Wanna-Potus had a stroke would we even notice any difference?


16 posted on 02/17/2011 9:09:22 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("These people are either at your neck or at your knees" A quote by Winston Churchill)
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To: Red Badger
There’s a lot of that going around.......must be a bug slug or something...............

9mm tend to cause strokes dontchaknow

17 posted on 02/17/2011 9:11:28 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Frank_2001
It’s the stress of being overthrown-he’s an old guy! Where is he going to find another country to rule with an iron fist, at his age???

He'll just have to join the rest of the rank who are underemployed.

18 posted on 02/17/2011 9:14:48 AM PST by OB1kNOb (Witty saying TBD.)
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To: Pan_Yan
If he’s in the hospital someone’s going to have to help his wife unload that 1.5 tons of gold bars she apprently put on the plane when leaving Tunisia.

She has already contacted me. I have agreed to help her, and have sent her a check for $10,000 to indicate my sincerity and good will.

19 posted on 02/17/2011 9:16:49 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (BO + MB = BOMB -- The One will make sure they get one.)
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To: Bush_Democrat

Obamanitus.


20 posted on 02/17/2011 9:17:41 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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