Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Facing Growing Unrest, Jordan's King Fires The Cabinet

Jordan's King Abdullah II, © RIA Novosti. Aleksei Nikolskiy

Jordan’s King Dismisses Cabinet -- New York Times

AMMAN, Jordan — King Abdullah II of Jordan fired his government in a surprise move on Tuesday, in the face of a wave of demands of public accountability sweeping the Arab world and bringing throngs of demonstrators to the streets of Egypt.

The Jordanian news agency Petra announced that after recent protests in Jordan itself, the king had dismissed Prime Minister Samir Rifai and replaced him with Marouf al-Bakhit, a former general and ambassador to Israel and Turkey. He is widely viewed as clean of corruption.

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