At a recent meeting with human rights activists, Justice Minister Ahmed Mekki denied the allegations and insisted that it was the interior ministry's internal responsibility to reform its forces.
Although land conservation is mainly Interior's responsibility, Mrs. Whitman demonstrated a real appreciation for the importance of saving natural resources for future generations when she sponsored a $1 billion open space program, the largest in New Jersey's history.
Speaking generally about the release of drug traffickers, Mohammad Daud, deputy minister of interior with responsibility for tackling illegal drugs, is quoted in a cable as telling assistant US ambassador Anthony Wayne that he had learned "some members of the president's family had been receiving money from those seeking the pardon and release of convicted traffickers".
Mr. Shtayyeh foresaw more problems in other appointments, like the minister of interior, who has responsibility for the security forces.
"It is dangerous for us if a guerrilla force has an income," said General Daoud, who as deputy interior minister has responsibility for counternarcotics efforts.
José Bové, a Green MEP and sheep farmer once imprisoned for trashing a McDonalds fast-food restaurant, accused the government of sending in the police to provoke tension and charged Bernard Cazeneuve, the Socialist interior minister, with responsibility for Mr Fraisse's death.
More broadly, they want Mr. Salazar to reject the destructive philosophy underlying the Norton-Leavitt arrangement by reasserting the interior secretary's responsibility to help protect America's fragile landscapes from oil and gas leasing, off-road vehicle use and mining.
Ahmed Razak Yehiyeh, the new Palestinian interior minister, who has responsibility for security forces, met for almost three hours with Mr. Peres in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
Israeli officials said that they were impressed with two new ministers appointed by Mr. Arafat who are involved in these talks: Ahmed Razak Yehiyeh, the interior minister, who has responsibility for overseeing security forces, and Salam Fayad, the finance minister.
"My father wanted to convince the West that those at the top of Russian television were lying to the public," she said, adding that if those now arrested effectively worked for the Chechen interior ministry, "the political responsibility did indeed lie with the government in Moscow".
