1. Ahmed Dlimi led the Western Sahara War and played a major role in Angolan Civil War.
15 Facts About Ahmed Dlimi
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Ahmed Dlimi was promoted to General during the Green March in 1975, and took charge of the Moroccan Armed Forces in the Southern Zone, where the military were fighting the Polisario Front.
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Ahmed Dlimi's father, Lahcen Dlimi, was a rural aristocrat falling over the Middle Eastern umbrella term of Pasha for his land-owning nature during the Protectorate Era.
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Ahmed Dlimi headed the Moroccan security services and played an important role as a military supporter of King Hassan II during the Years of lead.
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Ahmed Dlimi was reportedly connected to the "disappearance" of the exiled opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka, leader of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces and of the non-aligned Tricontinental Conference, in 1965, in Paris, France According to the first judicial investigation, Ahmed Dlimi was in Paris, along with General Oufkir, at the time of Ben Barka's kidnapping.
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Former dissident and prisoner Ali Bourequat has directly accused Ahmed Dlimi of taking part in Ben Barka's assassination.
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Ahmed Dlimi eventually replaced Oufkir as right-hand man to Hassan II.
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In 1980, Ahmed Dlimi initiated the construction of a wall, stating it was to protect the annexed Western Sahara from the Polisario's attacks.
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Ahmed Dlimi was increasingly viewed as the main military strongman of Morocco.
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Ahmed Dlimi was allegedly part of the "Independent Officers" who intended to overthrow the monarchy, in order to put an end to the regime's corruption and human rights violations.
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Ahmed Dlimi himself was arrested, interrogated and tortured in the royal palace, before his death being set up as a car-crash.
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Ahmed Dlimi is said to have advocated a closer relationship to France in order to counter US influence.
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Ahmed Dlimi had agreed to the setting up of a CIA station in Morocco, which became one of its key installations in Africa.
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Ahmed Dlimi died in January 1983, officially in a car crash, although allegations have been made that he was assassinated.
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Ahmed Dlimi was accused of being responsible for the death of Mehdi Ben Barka in November 1965.