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Thursday
Oct182007

The President's plane

This is great online activism. Tunisian blogger Astrubal has used data
of plane spotters to track the plane of Tunisia's Ben Ali on its visits to European cities. Comparing dates and destinations with official
newspaper annoncements, he suggests it could as well serve the First Lady's shopping endavours.


(Via crisscrossed.net)

Reader Comments (3)

I love this story. Good old planespotters, forever so maligned. Presumably it was the same kind devoted anoraks who documented the CIA's extraordinary rendition flights...

Does Luqa have swanky boutiques?

Oct 18, 2007 at 5:07 PM | Unregistered Commentereliza

What's wrong with Luqa! lol I'm Maltese - quite frankly I'm kind of annoyed that Mrs. Ben Ali's dirty money might be circulating here....

Interesting story though...

Oct 21, 2007 at 10:30 AM | Unregistered CommenterAndre

Nice story really :)

Oct 30, 2007 at 12:03 AM | Unregistered CommenterArab

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