Hi, Chris-

The candidate is Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, who was imprisoned by the old regime in the '60s and has otherwise been heavily involved in the pro-democracy movement for decades. Here's some basic info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Najib_Chebbi And here's his Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ahmed-Nejib-CHEBBI/30179433180

If you'd like to speak with my Tunisian counterpart who's handling our effort on the ground there, you can add him on Skype: jokoforlan1 He speaks good French and Arabic, passable English; I often use Google translate in addition to English and a few words of Arabic to communicate with him.

Haven't heard back from David yet, but at any rate there's no rush on this - the elections aren't until July, and I'm going to be busy with several other efforts in the meantime. So we have plenty of time for people to decide if they're interested in supporting this fellow and plan what sort of projects might be most helpful (as I mentioned earlier, a well-made YouTube video with solid info on him is the main thing we're interested in doing at the moment).

I'm heading to NYC tomorrow and will be in meetings from Monday to Wednesday, but I'd love to chat later in the week if you have a moment.

Thanks again for getting back to me on this; I appreciate your interest.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Chris Stroffolino <chris.stroffolino@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Barrett---

Yes, sounds great. Let me know when the Tunisian allies determine a candidate, and who that is, his platform, past history, etc.

Have you heard from David yet?

I could write him too---

I'm away from phone access this weekend, but we could talk monday if you want.

My number is 415-260-7535

Chris

On Sep 9, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:

Chris-

You may remember that Anonymous was heavily involved in the North African revolutions, particularly Tunisia. I'm still working with some of the Tunisians with whom we collaborated starting in early February, and they've proposed that we restart OpTunisia in an effort to help ensure that the winner of the presidential election next July will be someone without connections to the former regime. Anonymous itself can't support particular candidates, but my two-year old online group Project PM, which includes many Anons and former Anons, is going to be doing what we can to make the case for a particular candidate that our Tunisians believe to be the best bet.

I wanted to see if you might be interested in helping us a bit later on when we start making viral videos and that sort of thing in support of this candidate. If so, e-mail me back or give me a call at 512-560-2302. I just e-mailed Berman about this too, in case you two might want to collaborate on a little something.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

We're still studying the intelligence contracting industry with the attention of bring more attention to the matter. A few weeks ago I released a report on Romas/COIN, a complex intelligence operations apparatus that is detailed in the HBGary e-mails; I've done several interviews on the subject and have two documentary crews coming by over the next two weeks to interview me on the subject. Our info is put up on our wiki: http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Chris Stroffolino <chris.stroffolino@gmail.com> wrote:

Alas, I figured as much.

What's your current project by the way?

Chris

On Jul 12, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:

I think it already has, although I don't see anything fundamental coming of any of this.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Chris Stroffolino <chris.stroffolino@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you think some of the recent news about Murdoch may ripple over to the Fox Empire?

Perhaps a hopeful development?

Chris

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302