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    Tunisia protests slaying of secular leader

    •February 6, 2013
    • Tunisian women gather in front of the house of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid's father prior to his funeral in Tunis, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Tunisia braced for clashes on Friday, with the capital shut down by a general strike and the army deployed for the funeral of a slain opposition leader expected to draw tens of thousands of mourners, and potentially many more. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi)
    • Besma Khlifi, left, wife of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid, reacts after he was shot to death in Tunis, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. A critic of the Islamist-led government and violence by radical Muslims, Belaid was shot to death outside his home Wednesday, in the first political assassination in post-revolutionary Tunisia. The killing is likely to heighten tensions in the North African nation whose path from dictatorship to democracy so far has been seen as a model for the Arab world. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi)
    • Tunisians demonstrate outside the home of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid after he was shot to death in Tunis, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. A critic of the Islamist-led government and violence by radical Muslims, Belaid was shot to death outside his home Wednesday, in the first political assassination in post-revolutionary Tunisia. The killing is likely to heighten tensions in the North African nation whose path from dictatorship to democracy so far has been seen as a model for the Arab world. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi)
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    Tunisian women gather in front of the house of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid's father prior to his funeral in Tunis, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Tunisia braced for clashes on Friday, with the capital shut down by a general strike and the army deployed for the funeral of a slain opposition leader expected to draw tens of thousands of mourners, and potentially many more. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi)

    Thousands of protesters gathered in Sidi Bouzid, cradle of the Arab

    Spring uprisings, after a prominent secular opponent of Tunisia's

    moderate Islamist-led government was shot dead on Feb. 6. The assassination of Chokri Belaid has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis.