Assassinated Moroccan People - Assassinated Moroccan Politicians, Lillehammer Affair, Mehdi Ben Barka, Ahmed Bouchiki, Ahmed Bahnini (Paperback)

Chapters: Assassinated Moroccan Politicians, Lillehammer Affair, Mehdi Ben Barka, Ahmed Bouchiki, Ahmed Bahnini. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mehdi Ben Barka (born 1920 disappeared October 29, 1965) (Arabic: ) was a Moroccan politician, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNPF) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference. An opponent of Hassan II, he "disappeared" in Paris in 1965. Despite countless theories attempting to explain what really happened to the man hailed by his supporters as "Morocco's Che Guevara," the exact circumstances of his disappearance have never been established, and as of 2009, investigations are on-going. Ben Barka was born in Rabat, Morocco to a civil servant, and became the first Moroccan Muslim to get a degree in mathematics in an official French school in 1950. He became a prominent member of the Moroccan opposition in the nationalist Istiqlal party, but broke off after clashes with conservative opponents in 1959 to found the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP). In 1962, Ben Barka was accused of plotting against King Hassan II and exiled from Morocco, after supporting Algeria in 1963. On October 29, 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka was abducted ("disappeared") in Paris by French police officers and never seen again. On Dec. 29, 1975, Time Magazine published an article called "The Murder of Mehdi Ben Barka," stating that three Moroccan agents were responsible for the death of Ben Barka, one of them former Interior Minister Mohammed Oufkir. Speculation persists as to CIA involvement. French intelligence agents and the Israeli Mossad were also involved, according to the Time magazine article. Ben Barka was exiled in 1963, becoming a travelling salesman of the revolution, according to the h...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=123873