reinforcement
s started arriving from Benghazi and other eastern towns and the danger passed, but air force planes dropped bombs further down the road to try to stop the reinforcements arriving.
President Obama is reintroducing military trials at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Mr Obama said that allowing military tribunals to resume was one of several steps he was taking, in his words, to 'bring terrorists to justice'. Steve Kingstone is in Washington.
It's a pretty devastating
U-turn
by the Obama administration. You recall that just two days into office, Barack Obama signed an executive order, putting a halt to military tribunals,
instigating
a review process of Guantanamo Bay and the president said that CIA should close that prison facility down within a year, so by January of 2010. Of course that didn’t happen and what we are now seeing is the completion of that U-turn, the Obama administration going back to square one, saying 'Ok, we will re-open the process whereby military tribunals can take place at Guantanamo Bay.'
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The newly-appointed interim government in Tunisia has
dissolve
d the secret police, a key demand of pro-democracy protesters who ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January. The notorious state security apparatus was
blamed for
many human rights abuses. The new government has retained most key ministers from the previous interim administration, but a number of new appointments have been made.