Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Index / People Transcripts Jeffrey Feltman ...it was going to go. Tunisia, of course; Ben Ali fled first, and I think we all assume... ...US official to go to Tunisia after Ben Ali fled and met with the interi... ...Jordan—but it was late January, after Ben Ali had fled, and after it was clear tha... ...that Tunisia was then in an uproar— Ben Ali had not fled yet—gave us the example t... ...forgotten about. For example, after Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, but then Gaddaf... ...but then Gaddafi offered to host Ben Ali in Libya. And this was a brief but hug... ...but huge crisis. Had Gaddafi moved Ben Ali back to Libya under the Tunisia... ...the old ruling-party stalwarts of Ben Ali , would have felt empowered, would hav... ...pressure, to prevent him from hosting Ben Ali in some tent along the Tunisia... Show more... Tawakkol Karman ...which is the day of the fleeing of [Zine El Abidine] Ben Ali , the dictator of Tunisia, from Tunis... ...from a [Muammar al-] Qaddafi, from Ben Ali , from Hosni Mubarak, from Ali Saleh... William Taylor ...in Tunisia against that dictator, Ben Ali , it just took off. It wasn't even Ara... ...at the time, those two in particular. Ben Ali was out. [Hosni] Mubarak was out. Ther... ...since the '50s and '60s. And then Ben Ali for all this time, as it became mor... Jake Sullivan ...what was happening in Tunisia and Ben Ali 's departure. And the question o... William Burns ...of political compromise even under the Ben Ali regime. You had respect for women'... ...stable political transition once Ben Ali was pushed out. What I didn't at leas... Samantha Power ...in the leader of Tunisia [ Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ], the corrupt and oppressive leader o... ...we would have focused on the flight of Ben Ali , the president of Tunisia, and hi... ...continued on. And as people had seen Ben Ali leave Tunisia—although Egypt and Liby... ...more brutal and prone to bloodshed than Ben Ali and Mubarak, that knowledge wa... ...end, gotten to Mubarak, and certainly Ben Ali did not want to face in Tunisia... Colin Kahl ...handing him an email note that said Ben Ali had just fled Tunisia, and he kind o... ...leading to the crumbling of the Ben Ali regime. It spread like wildfire, an... Hillary Clinton ...on in Tunis with [Zine al-Abidine] Ben Ali and his coterie. But I ha... ...Libya would be a great outcome. Ben Ali has been forced out of Tunisia. He'... Huma Abedin ...parts of the world, because you had Ben Ali , who was the democratically electe... ...supported Mubarak. We had supported Ben Ali . So I didn't have a good feeling abou... Omezzine Khelifa ...professors during the period of Ben Ali ? That's a very good question... ...from the outside, it seems as if, after Ben Ali 's quite unexpected and rapi... ...help to—I don't know who's a member of Ben Ali 's family to get that place, tha... ...change from the orientation of the Ben Ali regime, and the Tunisians in general... ...the French administration, to see that Ben Ali was gone, and that we needed a ne... ...was the tool of repression of the Ben Ali regime. I understand that securit... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Russia Russia go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Veterans Veterans