BURKINA FASO - EXCLUSIVE: These military ready to take up arms if Compaore does not honor its commitments

AFP - Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore, whose country has been faced with mutinies of soldiers, has assigned the Ministry of Defence in the new government, whose composition was announced Thursday night, according to decrees read on state television RTB.

"The president of the (Burkina Faso) Faso, supreme commander of armed, took office as Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs," reads one of the decrees.

This position is particularly sensitive in the present context, the regime of President Compaore, a soldier who seized power in a coup in 1987, facing more than a month to the mutinies of soldiers who received up his own personal guard.

These riots occurred in parallel with other protest movements of most of society in Burkina Faso which began in late February.

Fifteen new ministers enter this government comprises 29 ministers (against 38 previously), all members of the ruling party or the presidential movement.This is the team most ressérée history of Burkina Faso.

Djibril Bassolé, former joint mediator of the UN and African Union (AU) for Darfur (Sudan), was appointed foreign minister.

Economy and finance back to Lucien Marie-Noel Bembamba, brother-in-chief of the State, Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Security, Jerome Bougouma, another close to Blaise Compaore.

The new team includes three women appointed to the Ministries of National Education, Social Action and Promotion of Women.

This government was formed by the new Prime Minister Luc Adolphe Tiao, a journalist by training and former ambassador to Burkina Paris, appointed Monday to replace Tertius Zongo, who was fired after a mutiny within the leader's own presidential guard of State, April 14.

Mr.Compaore had also replaced the main army officials, including Chief of Staff.

The new team of faithful head of state, while many observers had expected an opening to members of civil society and opposition, will have to try to stem a wave of protest unprecedented in history of the country.

Since late February, all segments of the population, youth, students, judges, soldiers, traders, expressed with varying degrees of violence across the country against Compaore's regime and the high cost of living while most of the 16 million Burkinabe live with about 1.5 euro per day.

Balance: At least six deaths, injuries, looting, damage to property.

A year after the oil spill in Louisiana, the risk is always present

A year after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, oil has been dispersed and enhanced security, but the United States is not safe from another disaster, told AFP that the admiral had led the government's efforts against the oil spill.

"We can never prevent a disaster from taking place here," said retired Admiral Thad Allen, who has worked on various oil spills since the 80s and led relief operations after the explosion of the oil platform , April 20, 2010, off the coast of Louisiana.

The accident had caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history.BP, operator of the platform, could not prevent the spill of some 4.9 million barrels of crude in the Gulf of Mexico.

"And we're still cleaning," said Mr. Allen told AFP. "But the quantities are much smaller than those we have known, limited mostly to swampy areas," upsetting the nesting birds in the reeds still polluted the coast of the Southeast, according to Mr.Allen.

Over 1,700 km of wetlands and beaches of the Gulf have been polluted and more than 6,000 birds died, according to the American Council for the Defence of natural resources, while 2,000 people are still working to clean the first wetlands to be affected by oil spill.

The U.S. government said at the time a moratorium on offshore drilling and a few months later, the Department of the Interior has tightened rules against companies wanting to acquire a drilling permit.

"This is obviously an improvement over the previous situation, but we can never prevent such an event happen," he said.

Mr.Allen retired in June but stayed on the scene to carry out the plan of government support Obama until the wellbore BP is declared "dead" in September.

"It was clear that this crisis would not be resolved quickly," says Allen, urging the U.S. not to repeat the mistakes of the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez, which had spilled 50,000 tons of oil Wed

"Two to three years after the Exxon Valdez, it has invested heavily in research and development against these risks," according to Thad Allen.

"And while we focus on tanker accidents, the industry has changed and went to drill deeper and deeper."

"We should not let that happen.We should focus on innovation and technological improvements to track changes in the industry, "says Allen.

LIBYA: The G8 failed to agree on the establishment of a no-fly zone

The foreign ministers of the G8 in Paris on Tuesday called for new measures to the UN to "further pressure" on Muammar Gaddafi, Alain Juppe announced at the end of their work.

"We agree to ask the Security Council to increase its pressure on Colonel Gaddafi," said Alain Juppe to the press.

But the written conclusions of the meeting did not mention the option of a no-fly zone, in which several countries, including Germany, were opposed.

"The ministers have asked Muammar Gaddafi to respect the legitimate claims of the Libyan people for their fundamental rights, freedom of expression and a representative form of government.They warned against the tragic consequences of his refusal, "these findings indicate.

"The Ministers welcomed the fact that the Security Council of the United Nations urgently examine a wide range of measures to protect people against attacks by Libyan forces of Muammar Gaddafi," said the text also.

"They also agreed that the Security Council should increase the pressure to encourage Muammar Gaddafi to leave, including economic measures," he adds.

Alain Juppe had announced on Tuesday morning that the G8 countries were unable to agree on the principle of military intervention in Libya, desired by France.Paris and London last week evoked the possibility of targeted air strikes, carried out with the approval of the Security Council, or a no-fly zone.

UNITED STATES: Boeing and EADS suspended Washington's decision on tanker

AFP - The Pentagon is expected to unveil Thursday its decision on the mega-tanker contract from the U.S. Air Force, for which the U.S. aviation giant Boeing and Europe's EADS are competing for several years.

Several congressional sources said on condition of anonymity Wednesday that the decision on the contract of $ 35 billion was to be unveiled Thursday.

The solicitation is 179 tanker aircraft to replace the aging fleet of KC-135 U.S. Air Force from the 50.The Pentagon will buy these devices at a rate of 15 per year maximum and plans to spend $ 900 million in 2012.

According to Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Lexington Institute, a think tank based in Arlington, near Washington, EADS appears poised to win the contract.

The history of this tender is peppered with twists, including a spy scandal, and the contract was canceled twice, having been awarded to Boeing for the first time in 2003 and a second in 2008 to Airbus and Northrop Grumman.

EADS, the parent company of aircraft manufacturer Airbus, launches this time without a major trading partner, but with the support of hundreds of U.S. equipment.

EADS submitted a military version of its Airbus A330, the KC-45, it boasts as "the only real-tanker aircraft already in operation" while the version presented by the 767 Boeing is "on paper" and argues that its production in the United States would generate 48,000 jobs in the country.

The European firm announced last week it had revised its price down to steal the contract.

Boeing says his side as he presented the instrument ensure "better operational capabilities to U.S. combat aircraft with a fuel consumption 24% lower than the unit proposed by EADS," and that support 50,000 jobs in the United States.

In Congress, elected representatives of the States of Washington, Kansas (center), Missouri (center), Michigan (north) and South Carolina (southeast), where Boeing plants or subcontractors working with the manufacturer, have been campaigning for months for the selection of the American.

However, elected officials in Alabama (south) where the tanker would be assembled to support the European Airbus.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Shakhtar is sacked Rome

They came, they saw, they conquered. The Brazilians dominated Shakhtar Donetsk AS Roma in a match that was cut short for the Giallorossi on Wednesday, in the fourth round to move the Champions League. Ukrainians, far from being petrified by the two-month winter break when they are forced, reversed the game just one minute after the opener by the Romans (28th, Simone Perrotta) before taking it, 3 -2.

This is the Brazilian Jadson who undertook to deliver the two teams tied with a shot deflected by the unfortunate Nicolas Burdisso. Ten minutes later, the quota "do Brasil" Shakhtar drives the point home.At the edge of the area, Douglas Costa will play four defenders Italian Roma Doni and wrong a beautiful shot wound (1-2).

Too sure of him early in the game, the Roman club made the mistake of taking up a Ukrainian team that finished first in their group to Arsenal last December.

The fall of Rome

Especially since, its momentum, Shakhtar continues to rage.On a loose ball from Norwegian John Arne Riise, Costa transplanted into the shaft and serves caviar Luiz Adriano (41 ') which has only put the ball into the net (1-3).

But while the end of the European adventure seems to be emerging for the Romans, the French Jeremy Menez, who wrote a very good performance, give hope to his teammates. After the break, the former Monaco full-line rushes, fails to make the shirt and pull up a curling shot into the top corner (2-3).

The game finally balanced between a conquering and a Roma Shakhtar who wants to keep the advantage while seeking the killer cons. Yet the repeated incursions by Marco Borriello (70th, 90th), Francesco Totti (82) and Rodrigo Taddei (82) will achieve nothing.With their victory on the outside, the Ukrainians will host the March 8 a humiliated Roma who will also be without his strong man of the moment, Menezes, who was sentenced a second yellow card. The fall of Rome is announced ...

TUNISIA: The Interior Minister made the household within the security services

The Interior Ministry raided by nearly 2 000 people, attacks against schools and colleges, protesters harassed ... In recent days, the incident - and rumors of incidents - are multiplying in Tunisia. The interior minister of the transitional government, Farhat Rajhi, tried to calm the situation on Tuesday night, speaking on television and in dismissing some thirty senior security services.

"Day after day we hear of attacks, kidnappings and violence against innocent Tunisians, wrote on his blog Lina Ben Mhenni, professor at the University of Tunis. The dictator is gone but the plan is still there.Officers of State Security, supported by militia have sown terror in the country. "

A week marred by incidents

Tuesday, they are different schools of Tunis, the capital and its suburbs that have panicked. "The gangs are terrorizing the colleges and high schools," as this Wednesday the Tunisian daily Le Temps.

English teacher in a school district Bardo - High School November 7th, renamed the school in the revolution of the 14th-January - Nabila Lakhdar Serian said that chaotic day. "Members of the former regime came in some institutions they hit the teachers, students and terrorized everyone.My high school was not attacked but friends called us to tell us to go home. Everyone was panicking. "

The day before, is the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior which was in turn attacked, this time by a crowd of over 2000 people. "Rashid Ammar [Chief of Defence Staff, note] and I escaped by a miracle, said the interior minister in person on television. Without the anti-terrorist units, the attackers would have killed us."Farhat Rajhi, which was stolen coat, his glasses and his computer during the attack, said the attackers "were armed, drunk and drugged."

At Kasserine, in central-west, the same day, several buildings, including the sub-prefecture, were ransacked. On Friday, demonstrators from within the country were violently evicted from the esplanade of the Kasbah, Tunis, where they camped for several days.

"They sow mayhem to slow change"

For Tunisians, there is no doubt that members of the former regime are behind these incidents. "We are living a revolution, said Hatem Frikha, a manager in a consulting and player associations.We just dropped a police state. It is normal for a fringe of the former regime does not want to let things take their course. "

"These people try to mess to slow the pace of change, Hatem Frikha analysis. They want to save some time either to try to rebuild their virginity, or to run away ..."

Alleging a conspiracy against the state after the attack on the Interior Ministry, Farhat Rajhi acknowledged in his address to the private channel Hannibal TV that "evil comes from within.""Fifty invaders, many of whom were armed, were arrested before being released, showing a fail-safe and collusion between the attackers and the law enforcement agencies," he said.

It is for this reason that 34 senior security officials, including heads of national security, safety and general presidential security, was retired Tuesday.Meanwhile, seven new directors were appointed to head various departments of national security.

Farhat Rajhi, the "new face of the police"

These ads and the general tone of the new interior minister, who spoke in Tunisian dialect, seem to have convinced some of the population. "Farhat Rajhi is a very sympathetic character, charming," says Nabila Lakhdar Serian. It embodies a new face of the police. " "The interior minister gave a very interesting speech, confirms Hatem Frikha. It is unanimously behind him."

On Wednesday, the calm seems to income in the country.An authorized source at the Interior Ministry, quoted by the Agence Tunis-Afrique Presse (TAP), has also denied rumors of child abductions, which have proliferated on Tuesday. A hotline was made available to the public by the Ministry of Interior.

Police also made a comeback in the Tunisian streets. After several days of strikes, wage increases were granted on Tuesday, agents of security services. Schools are functioning normally.

"We still always in fear because we are in a transitional period," says Nabila Lakhdar Serian.We do not want an abortion militias our revolution. "" There are incidents, but the situation is quite manageable, assured of his side Hatem Frikha. The police and army are playing their role. The general trend is very positive. "

INTERNET: How Ben Ali was trying to identify users of Facebook

"We had never encountered a security problem of scale that took place in Tunisia." Facebook has detailed this weekend, he led the battle to counter attempts by the regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to retrieve the identifiers of users of the famous Tunisian social network during the unrest that led to the leakage the former president. A communication operation that gives, of course, the handsome star at the role of Web 2.0, but also casts a harsh light on how the authority was trying to control access to the Net.

In an interview on Monday, the American cultural monthly "The Atlantic", Joe Sullivan, the head of security within Facebook, talks about the incident.It all began during the holiday season, says he. Many users complain Tunisian then seeing their Facebook account deleted.

Tunisian Internet by boiling following the immolation of young Mohamed Bouazizi, Sidi Bouzid, December 17, fear of censorship. At first, Facebook can not identify the problem.

Apolitical posture

Ultimately, it will take about ten days the team of Joe Sullivan to understand what's happening in the country. "The main service provider (ISP) [Tunisia] had established an unprecedented system for recovering logins and passwords for Tunisians registered on Facebook," said one.The social network accuses unnamed Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) to have engaged the pleasure of hacker crime.

The organization, under the Ministry of Telecommunications, was injected on the login page to Facebook a cookie to save the email address and password that users wrote in logging.

Malicious code online

To circumvent the problem, Facebook has implemented a secure login page (one address "https" instead of "http") for all Tunisians. The user who wanted access to their account should also confirm his identity by answering a security question.Two steps, by Joe Sullivan, were sufficient to prevent the regime of Ben Ali can delete or edit their Facebook accounts.

The firm of Mark Zuckerberg has therefore been drawn into a major political event. "We decided to treat this as a mere technical problem and keep an apolitical stance," said Ted Sullivan, however. That is why the American group waited until the former president Ben Ali stepped down to reveal the story.

This episode confirms, in any event, the tight control on the Net Tunisian denounced for months by both Tunisian and by international organizations to defend freedom of expression.In July 2010, the Internet and Global Voices was moved to an attempt by authorities to retrieve the identifiers of the subscribers to Gmail, Google's e-mail.

January 3, malicious code intended to allow Tunisian government to control access to Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook have even been published on the Internet.