http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12198396

"Mr Ben Ali, who had been in power for 23 years, conceded power on Friday after the unrest culminated in a giant rally against him in Tunis.

He flew out of Tunisia with his family amid widespread speculation about his destination.

The French government rejected a request for his plane to land in the country. It refuelled on the Italian island of Sardinia and later landed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia."

...reading between the lines...that he was French intelligence and they were washing their hands of it? I suspect however, that this was a plan put in motion by PRINCE WILLIAM for some reason...and TOMLINSON...rather like the AUSTRALIAN flooding story, this morning...none of it is coincidental...