VOL. XLVII

No 15

12-April-2004

Arab Press Review

Libyan Hardliners Re-Emerge

(MEES Translation)

The following is an extract from an article entitled The New Libyan Cabinet: Militias Of The Popular Committees Persist that was published on the Akhbar Libya website on 4 April.

The first thing to catch the eye in the formation of the new Libyan cabinet was the total obscurity in the manner in which it was chosen or appointed. In years gone by, the General Peoples Congress used to oversee the process,...