Tunisia's government has collapsed, partially due to food price inflation and unemployment, but also because of WikiLeaks.
Hmmmm....
I wonder where he got that idea.
January 17, 2011, 12:30 pm
Qaddafi Sees WikiLeaks Plot in Tunisia
By ROBERT MACKEY (NY Times)
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Over the weekend, the man who has ruled Tunisia’s neighbor Libya with an iron fist for more than four decades, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, tried his hand at casting events in Tunisia in a sinister light. In a televised address to his people on Libyan state television on Saturday, Colonel Qaddafi identified the evil organization he blamed for unleashing a plot against public order and Arab self rule in Tunisia: WikiLeaks.
Picking up on the conspiracy theory put forward by Iran’s leadership, which holds that the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables were released by the C.I.A. to undermine anti-colonialist governments, Colonel Qaddafi warned his listeners about the dark designs of “WikiLeaks which publishes information written by lying ambassadors in order to create chaos.”
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http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/qaddafi-sees-wikileaks-plot-in-tunisia/
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