Lawyers, stand aside the engineers are coming out.
Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Libya's interim leadership has chosen an electronics engineer from Tripoli as the country's new prime minister. Abdel-Rahim al-Keeb was chosen on Monday by 51 members of the National Transitional Council (NTC) and will appoint a cabinet in the coming days. Keeb's appointment helps correct the Benghazi bias of the interim government, according to the New York Times. He has spent most of his career abroad it notes, but "for the purposes of Libyan politics Keeb is considered a resident of the western city of Tripoli, the capital, offering regional balance to the interim president, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, who is from the east."