08.03.2011                      02.Adar ll, 5771

Tunesien:

Tunisia names new gov’t, disbands security service

Jordanian journalists rally for more freedom; Kuwaitis plan to launch protests of their own.

Tunesia's interim authorities on Monday named a new government and disbanded the feared state security apparatus notorious for human rights abuses under the country’s ousted leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Seeking to assert their authority and gain legitimacy in the eyes of protesters who forced Ben Ali to flee the country on January 14, the caretaker authorities are attacking the remaining vestiges of his 23-year rule one by one….