SYRIA: Turkey takes on Assad over civilian attacks.
Turkey warned Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday that he cannot continue to oppress his people with tanks and guns forever, even as Syrian soldiers opened fire on at least two buses carrying Turkish citizens, witnesses and officials said.
“You can only continue with tanks and guns to a certain point, the day will come when you will go,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a speech at an international religion conference in Istanbul.
It was not clear whether Erdogan was aware of Monday’s attacks on the buses when he delivered the speech. In separate attacks, Syrian security forces killed at least 13 people during raids Sunday in central Syria, activists said.
LIBYA: Former intel chief held in secret location.
Moammar Gadhafi’s captured intelligence chief is being held at a secret location deep in Libya’s southern desert because of possible threats to his life, a government spokesman said Monday.
Abdullah al-Senoussi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands and by France, is being held in the city of Sabha by revolutionary fighters who captured him on Sunday, said Hmeid al-Etabi, a local spokesman for Libya’s new leadership. But the prisoner’s precise location must be kept secret, he said.
TUNISIA: Three parties detail plans for interim government.
The heads of the three parties in Tunisia’s new ruling coalition have announced their plans for the interim government.
The leaders of the Islamist Ennahda Party and its two junior coalition partners explained Monday in a late night news conference how they would divide up seats in the new government.
They confirmed news that Ennahda would take the prime minister’s post and veteran human-rights activist Moncef Marzouki of the Congress for the Republic would become president.
Denver Post wire services
