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Tunisia: Islamist party leader accused of double standards

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The head of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party is accused of double-dealing after a video emerges of him offering backroom advice to Salafists at a secret meeting. Liberals say it is proof that Ennahda's sympathies are more radical than it lets on. Meanwhile, as former Algerian president Chadli Bendjedid is given a state funeral, critics argue that he did not deserve the title of father of democracy in the nation.

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