Tunisian Opposition Leader Assassinated...Did the Radical Islamist Government Make the Hit?

The country that started it all....yep, the country of Tunisia, which started the domino effect of the "Arab Spring" across northern Africa and the Middle East is now rocked by a huge turn of events when the country's biggest opposition leader...a man opposed to the radical Islamist regime that rules the country was shot dead in an assassination.

From the article at DAWN:

Leading leftist opposition leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead Wednesday morning as he left his home in Tunis, said his family, which accused Tunisia’s ruling Ennahda party of being behind the killing.

Belaid was head of the opposition Democratic Patriots party and a harsh critic of Tunisia’s Islamist-led government.

“My brother was assassinated. I am desperate and depressed,” Abdelmajid Belaid, brother of the dead leader, told AFP.

“I accuse…(Ennahda leader) Rached Ghannouchi of assassinating my brother,” he said.

But hey, haven't we seen the same kind of "democracy" in Egypt as well?  Is this the type of "democracy" that the Obama administration blessed?  The claims of many who said that these Islamist regimes taking over in these countries would lead to this were dismissed but now we all know the truth - the Arab Spring brought pain, death and totalitarian rule to these countries....above and beyond any kind of oppression they had known before.  Another foreign policy "gold star" for one Barack Hussein Obama.

Tunisian opposition leader shot dead

UNIS: Leading leftist opposition leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead Wednesday morning as he left his home in Tunis, said his family, which accused Tunisia’s ruling Ennahda party of being behind the killing.

Belaid was head of the opposition Democratic Patriots party and a harsh critic of Tunisia’s Islamist-led government.

“My brother was assassinated. I am desperate and depressed,” Abdelmajid Belaid, brother of the dead leader, told AFP.

“I accuse…(Ennahda leader) Rached Ghannouchi of assassinating my brother,” he said.

The wife of the opposition leader, speaking to Radio Mosaique, said he had been hit by two bullets as he left his home.

Belaid’s party was part of a coalition of parties which has emerged in opposition to the Tunisia government.

The country is witnessing a rise in violence fed by political and social discontent more than two years after the toppling of the former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Several opposition parties and trade unions have accused the pro-Islamists of orchestrating clashes or attacks against them.