Tunisia Charges Officials With Helping AQIM

CAIRO [MENL] -- Tunisia has determined that officials cooperated with Al
Qaida to overthrow the government.
Two senior officials have been convicted of working with the Al Qaida
Organization in the Islamic Maghreb in an effort to launch major attacks and
overthrow the regime of Tunisian President Zein El Abidine Ben Ali. The
officials were said to have provided information to AQIM as well as
concealed a plot by the insurgency group.
The officials were identified as Souhail Guezdah, a commander of
Tunisia's security force, and sentenced to nine years. The other official
was Sami Belhaj Aissa, the deputy director of a Tunisian prison, and sent to
four years in jail.