Libyan prime minister poised to announce secularist cabinet

Source: The Guardian

Leaked details show no places for prominent Islamists in cabinet to be named by Abdulrahman el-Keib

Chris Stephen in Tripoli | Tuesday November 22 2011 12.25 GMT

Abdurrahim al-Keib, the new Libyan prime minister, is set to announce a secularist cabinet on Tuesday.

The major surprise in leaked details of the cabinet – which has no places for prominent Islamists – is the appointment of Osama Jweli, the chief of the Zintan military council, as defence minister at the expense of the Islamist Hakim Bilhaj. Jweli is an accomplished military commander whose forces played a key role in storming Tripoli in August but, until now, he had not had a high national political profile.

Sources in Zintan told the Guardian at the weekend that the town's leadership had demanded a cabinet post in return for handing over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who is being held at a secret location there.

Other appointments include Abdul Rahman Swehli, whose son, Ahmed, a psychiatrist at Manchester Royal Infirmary, spent the much of the war working as a doctor in the besieged city of Misrata, as the human rights minister.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/22/libya-prime-minister-secularist-cabinet

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'NATO imperialist intervention against Ghahddafi's Socialist paradise is putting al Queda in charge of Libya!' was being trumpeted here very frequently.

Women in the cabinet, no Al Qaida and something about education most recently. But I don't see much interest here or in the media for that matter in the situation on the ground and not the situation in NTC press releases.

Shootout erupts at Tripoli foreign worker compound

A group of around 20 men from the Libyan town of Misrata began firing guns when they were refused entry into "Palm City," a complex of luxury villas and flats on the outskirts of Tripoli, two witnesses said.

Two Libyan guards were injured when the 30-minute fight broke out at the front gate, one witness said.

The incident was the latest in a series of cases where militias who fought for months to oust Gaddafi, and now roam Libyan cities in armored pick-up trucks, have used their weapons to try to get their own way.

Monday night's attack was the first time foreigners have been caught up in the violence, and it is likely to make foreign companies and governments - whose help Libya needs for its economy to function - even more reluctant to send in staff.

http://news.yahoo.com/shootout-erupts-tripoli-foreign-worker-compound-161843762.html

This is the third relatively significant skirmish in months and it's still not counter-revolutionary in scope or an insurgency as a whole.

There are always bad hats and loose ends in something like this.

than I do.

It is some indication of where power actually lies in an armed coalition. Elements some attempted to present as predominant do not, in fact, seem to be.

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Elections were promised by June 2102.

they are not all former military (except defense), to avoid what happened in Egypt. Trying to Google who they are, looks like progressive thinking, very educated professionals.

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The U.S. is going to invade any day now. The Kearsarge and its Marines are probably on the way back there as we speak. :rofl:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=5065609&mesg_id=5068085



Due to my tardiness in responding, it probably didn't show up as a reply in your "My DU"...

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HAHA :rofl:

Never change. :)

Btw, Ali Tarhouni is not a member of the latest configuration of the Libyan cabinet. Hassan Ziglam is Finance Minister and Abdulrahman Ben Yezza is Oil Minister.

http://feb17.info/official-documents/full-list-of-official-ntc-executive-board-english-arabic/

I should've said, Abdurrahim El-Keib is a "US citizen" in an expat dissident circle, clearly he's being manipulated by the west, etc, etc.

I don't think Libya is a "model" to be honest. As valuable observers like Juan Cole pointed out, the protracted battle made it happen. Not that war is peace, but more that democratic institutions must be able to flourish in a time of protracted unrest or stalemate (remember, the Libyan Revolution basically went without any big conflict for at least 5 months in the middle there; takes time to train an army).

If it was "over" in a matter of days like Egypt you have the risk of things going south as they currently are in Egypt. Tunisia appears to be an exception and I would argue Tunisia is more of a model than any of them.

I doubt it.

With the many powerful foreign interests at play here, it may very well be a rather stable transition, but it's far too early to tell.

Some things to keep in mind, though: will the people be getting as good a financial, medical, educational and housing deal as they had before? How many people will have been killed, maimed and left without support before this is all "done"?

I'm glad certain people are full of themselves and strutting around proclaiming how "right" they were to support this insurrection, but there's been and will continue to be quite a bit of ethnic cleansing, rape, assorted violence and outright death. Will it all balance out as "better" for the Libyans? Time will tell, but even then it will be highly subjective.