CAIRO (AP) - State TV has announced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sworn in a new cabinet, replacing one dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests.
In the most significant change, the Interior Minister – who heads internal security forces - was replaced. A retired police general, Mahmoud Wagdi, was named to replace Habib el-Adly, who is widely despised by protesters for brutality shown by security forces.
Mubarak has retained his long-serving Defense Minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, and his Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit.
(COPYRIGHT 2011 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
