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James Clapper

...as the protests spread from Tunisia to Egypt, and then Libya, throughou...

John Brennan

...you interpret those early actions in Tunisia and in Tahrir Square [Cairo, Egypt]...
...many countries in the Middle East, from Tunisia to Libya to Egypt, and the Gulf states...

Tawakkol Karman

...right before—I mean, it's after the Tunisia protests have begun, so it'...
...El Abidine] Ben Ali, the dictator of Tunisia , from Tunis. It was really, reall...
...went from Sanaa University to Tunisia embassy. On the fifteenth of January i...

Robert Gates

...of 2010 is when the protests begin in Tunisia and spread pretty rapidly through Nort...
...making sense of what was going on in Tunisia , and then Tahrir Square [Cairo...
...too reticent to say or do anything, in Tunisia . They felt like that was a...
...with Libya that we had with either Tunisia or Egypt. It also evolved differentl...
...where the violence was very limited; in Tunisia , and so on. But in Libya, [Muamma...

William Taylor

...anticipated. When the fruit seller in Tunisia set himself on fire and died...
...died, triggering that big response in Tunisia against that dictator, Ben Ali, it jus...
...It wasn't even Arab Spring. It was just Tunisia at the beginning. Then it moved t...
...here we had emerging democracies in Tunisia and Egypt at the time, those two i...
...anything to do with supporting Egypt, Tunisia , Libya, and Syria—the Arab Sprin...

...going to look like in Egypt, in Libya, Tunisia ? And we can talk about Syria too. The...
...was economic support. Starting with Tunisia , the first one—we'll get to Egypt a...
...Congress was initially supportive on Tunisia and, to some degree, on Egypt. Tunisi...
...Tunisia and, to some degree, on Egypt. Tunisia was the most successful. It was small...
...and more oppressive. But the people in Tunisia were eager to throw off the dictato...
...important in the beginning for both Tunisia and then a little bit later on, becaus...
...on ambassadors, the US ambassador to Tunisia , a guy named Jake Walles, was reall...
...in particular behind the scenes in Tunisia and that transition. The transition...
...to try to guide politics in Egypt or Tunisia or anywhere else. We were there t...
...we're talking primarily about Egypt and Tunisia here, and maybe this question require...
...wrap up the discussion of Egypt, and Tunisia in particular, so that we can make sur...
...topples him in a coup in 2013. In Tunisia , as you mentioned, the experience i...
...from a transition standpoint, in Tunisia vis-à-vis Egypt? I think th...
...much more fertile ground to grow in in Tunisia than in Egypt. So outsiders like us...
...there was a much-better environment in Tunisia for this than it was in Egypt. I don'...
...as you say, it wasn't uniformly up in Tunisia . They had some bumps and som...
...investing in it. But by and large, Tunisia I think was a success story and stil...
...there, in contrast to the security in Tunisia and in Egypt at Cairo, where th...
...was much better in Egypt and Tunisia , and in Libya it was reall...
...you had been overseeing in Egypt and Tunisia would be possible in a place lik...
...out back to Washington than it was in Tunisia . I spent a fair amount of time i...
...I spent a fair amount of time in Tunisia and had a much more positive sense, an...
...there. I had more optimism about Tunisia , a real concern about Egypt, but ...
...to get to know the needs that we had in Tunisia in Egypt, where we had full run. So ou...
...with only responsibility for Egypt and Tunisia . Then we were given Libya, and w...
...of Tahrir Square and the revolution in Tunisia . It was coordinated through socia...
...methods and democratic values. Like in Tunisia , we can support, but if the peopl...
...of the Ukrainian society in this case, Tunisia society in that case, where we can hav...

Michael Posner

...question. As the protests spread from Tunisia to other countries in the region an...
...So when the events started to unfold in Tunisia , it wasn't at all surprising to m...
...on tech hygiene. So they would go into Tunisia or go into Indonesia or go wherever...

Jake Sullivan

...we were following what was happening in Tunisia and Ben Ali's departure. And th...
...there were some unique attributes to Tunisia that meant this could happen there bu...
...is still telling her, “Egypt is not Tunisia . Mubarak is going to weather this, fo...
...constantly playing catchup. First in Tunisia , then in Egypt, then in Libya, then i...

Thant Myint-U

...was happening in Egypt, in Syria, in Tunisia , elsewhere, and I think they felt thi...

Michael Mullen

...my recommendation was to drive in from Tunisia , which is a relatively short drive...
...of that moment? For me, it started in Tunisia , when the—I think it was a farmer, bu...
...have a background in that. But the Tunisia thing really lit it off for me. Then...

Michael Morell

...has and what [crosstalk]. Sure, sure. Tunisia and Egypt were the first. And there wa...

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