Word: ait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algeria last week Hocine Ait Ahmed and an officer named Si Moussa sat in prison cells awaiting execution. Their four-day trial had taken place before a three-man "revolutionary criminal court." Ait Ahmed, 39, a French-trained lawyer, was captured last October after leading an underground movement aimed at toppling the government of President Ahmed ben Bella, his onetime comrade in arms in the F.L.N. struggle against the French. The state demanded the death sentence, and the 15 defense lawyers-Algerian, Moroccan, French and Swiss-finally quit the courtroom in protest at the methods of the tribunal, especially...
...range into his personal fief. His men-historically mutinous Chaouia tribesmen whose ancestors had rebelled against Romans, Byzantines and Arabs alike-are equipped with armored cars, tanks and artillery, thus representing a more serious military threat to Ben Bella than the 2,000 Berber rebels under Hocine Ait Ahmed's command in the Great Kabylia range to the northwest...
...Criminal Adventure." "The regime is now moving irresistibly down the dangerous path toward fascism and totalitarian rule," he said. "Such a regime must be abolished." Khider sided openly with the armed rebellions of Ait Ahmed and Chaabani...
...cities, Ben Bella faced a much more difficult prospect in the mountains. At week's end, as government troops sat nervously in Biskra, and occupied the isolated towns of Bou-Saada and Djelfa as well, it was clear that Chaabani is as safe in the Aures heights as Ait Ahmed is in the Kabylia. Both know their high redoubts inside out. And a punitive expedition mounted by Ben Bella could lead to a long guerrilla war like the very one that gained Algeria its independence...
...chief rebel is Hocine Aft Ahmed, 38, who took to the hills in 1963 and is still holed up with his guerrillas near Michelet. Ait Ahmed patriotically called off his war last October, when border fighting broke out between Algeria and Morocco. But now that there is peace, Ait Ahmed has returned to the attack, with guns, bombs and pamphlets urging Ben Bella's soldiers to desert...