In this photo released Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, by

In this photo released Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, by the Tunisian presidency, Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, in Tunis, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Rice pressed President Ben Ali for democratic reform. Rice's three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, is her first as Secretary of State in this region of increasing strategic importance in terms of oil resources, emigration and fighting terrorism. Others are unidentified.
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