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What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

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Rashid al-Ghannushi
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: June 22
Lawyer
Politician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Rachid al-Ghannouchi
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Tunisia
Urgently
Building
Democracy
Freedom
Real

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