Bettino Craxi supposedly instructed Italy's SISMI to secretly facilitate this leader's rise to power in order to prevent Chadli Benjadid from invading.
This leader had a major diplomatic standoff with France after his nephews stole a yacht belonging to Bruno Roger, painted it yellow, and tried to auction it back to French officials. He received a de-facto exile as Polish Ambassador after the Gafsa Incident, a comically failed coup that saw angry lunatics drive through the streets shooting people and demanding they blame the government. Bettino Craxi supposedly instructed Italy's SISMI to secretly facilitate this leader's rise to power in order to prevent Chadli Benjadid from invading. The opposition of al-Nabhani's Hizb ut-Tahrir, or Liberation Party, led this man to reshape the Neo-Destour Party into the Constitutional Democratic Rally after declaring his predecessor, Habib Bourguiba, medically unfit for office. After this man's agents confiscated some fruits and vegetables from a 26 year-old grad student, the student lit himself on fire, sparking protests against this man that led Mohamed Ghannouchi to take over in the Jasmine Revolution. For 10 points, name this recently-deposed former dictator of Tunisia.
This leader had a major diplomatic standoff with France after his nephews stole a yacht belonging to Bruno Roger, painted it yellow, and tried to auction it back to French officials.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali