Major reshuffle in Egypt: PM quits & expectations of change in foreign, interior & justice ministries ...

"... One Shafiq aide said appointing Essam Sharaf prime minister was timed to defuse calls for another mass demonstration on Friday after a first modest reshuffle by Shafiq failed to mollify protesters who want a clean break with the Mubarak era."This is a shocking and premature resignation. There have been pressures from the streets that he quit," one of Shafiq's aides told Reuters, asking not to be identified.....

The Muslim Brotherhood and other political groupings had also been calling for Shafiq and his government to step aside and the army, in an apparent response had vowed to halt any "counter-revolution" from hijacking Egypt's revolution. ... The key jobs of foreign, interior and justice ministers were also likely to be reshuffled shortly, an army source said, to cleanse the government of further of links to Mubarak. Nabil Fahmy, an ex-Washington ambassador, and Magid Abdel Fattah, Egypt's permanent U.N. delegate, were possible candidates for the foreign affairs portfolio, a cabinet source said, adding it was highly unlikely the minister of defense, who is also head of the military council, would be changed..."