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PostSubject: Good stuff: Tunisia opposition chief killed   Good stuff: Tunisia opposition chief killed Icon_minitimeThu Feb 07, 2013 4:15 am

Prominent Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead on Wednesday, sparking deadly protests, attacks on offices of the ruling Islamist Ennahda party, and the pledge of a new government of technocrats.

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Furious protesters built barricades in central Tunis and clashed with police, and four opposition groups including Belaid's Popular Front bloc said they were pulling out of the national assembly.

One policeman was killed after being hit on the chest by rocks in Tunis, the interior ministry said.

President Moncef Marzouki denounced the killing of Belaid, an outspoken critic of his government, as an "odious assassination," while Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi told AFP the killers wanted a "bloodbath."

Islamist Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said in a televised address after the murder that he would form a government of technocrats.

"I have decided to form a government of competent nationals without political affiliation, which will have a mandate limited to managing the affairs of the country until elections are held in the shortest possible time," he said.

Jebali did not specify that he was dissolving the existing government, nor did he set a date for the reshuffle, which must be confirmed by the national assembly.

The United States and other Western nations reacted with dismay at Belaid's killing.

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