TUNIS, Tunisia — Outrage over the killing of a well-known opposition leader echoed across Tunisia's capital following what some are calling an unprecedented political assassination.
Chokri Belaid, a leftist and secularist who headed the Democratic Patriots party and openly criticized Ennahda, the ruling Islamist party, was gunned down outside his home early Wednesday, officials said. Two years after Tunisia's historic revolution, his death stunned the country's already-divided political landscape and populace as fingers pointed in divergent directions as to who was responsible.
