Many Tunisians fear the Libyan leader will intervene to prevent the popular revolt spreading to his neighbouring country.
Mezri Haddad, who resigned last week as Tunisia's ambassador to UNESCO in protest against Mr Ben Ali's rule, said the former president had sought Mr Gaddafi's help for a "scorched earth" policy.
"He gave weapons and lots of money to his close protection teams and his loyalists so that they could provoke civil war on his departure from Tunisia. He gave them the order to launch operations well before he fled," Mr Haddad said.
Mezri Haddad, who resigned last week as Tunisia's ambassador to UNESCO in protest against Mr Ben Ali's rule, said the former president had sought Mr Gaddafi's help for a "scorched earth" policy.
"He gave weapons and lots of money to his close protection teams and his loyalists so that they could provoke civil war on his departure from Tunisia. He gave them the order to launch operations well before he fled," Mr Haddad said.
With several top ministers retaining their posts in the shake-up will it be enough to prevent further clashes, gun battles on a larger scale with the loyalists to the ousted president Ben Ali and or a Libyan intervention of some form?
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