i was hoping this headline was about cheney & rumsfeld...

[spanone]

Two Officials Tied to Former President Are Held in Tunisia

TUNIS — The military on Sunday arrested two former top security officials under allegations of conspiracy against the acting Tunisian government, as interim officials stepped forward to attempt to curb the chaos engulfing the country.

The arrests, reported by state television Sunday, increased the suspense here and around the Arab world about what form of government will emerge out of the four weeks of protests that drove the autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali from power and into exile two days ago.

The reports of the arrests came as the second interim president in the past two days, the speaker of the Tunisian parliament, sought to negotiate a unity government with some of the previously tolerated opposition parties.

Citizen groups, encouraged by Tunisian television broadcasters, formed to defend their neighborhoods against the looting and mayhem that prevailed Saturday. Roads and lots around the city were pockmarked with evidence of the rioting — burned out carcasses of Kia, Fiat, and Porsche cars, evidently torched by rioters because of their connection to a rich son-in-law of the president who controlled their dealerships.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/world/africa/17tunis.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[Ken Burch]

1. Yeah...if anybody deserves to be rotting in a Middle Eastern jail, it'd be them

n/t.