Word: berbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Minh Communists at Dienbienphu last year was a veteran warrant officer named Mohammed el Khabouchi. By the time the Communists let him go, they had taught him to hate his French masters. Last week French officials identified 36-year-old El Khabouchi as the commander of a thousand Berber rebels lurking in Morocco's Rif Mountains. He hides out in the Spanish Moroccan hamlet of Talamrhecht, and on occasion sneaks across the border to shoot up his old home town of Tizi Ouzli, or to ambush passing convoys. El Khabouchi's Berbers and other rebel bands...
...Morocco's restive land. The Sultan could not trust some 400 pashas and caids (local administrators) who had endorsed his banishment by the French. They, in turn, fearing reprisals from the Sultan's friends, dared not assert their authority or exact their usual tithes from restless Berber tribes. The new French Resident General, Andre Louis Dubois, had turned over much of the police power to Moroccans, concentrating his 100,000 troops in the openly rebellious regions of the North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan militiamen nor the private guard forces of nationalist political parties were enough to keep order...
...door was flung wide. Shrouded in white djellaba and hood, El Glaoui shucked off his pointed slippers and advanced. The imperial chamberlain put a firm hand on El Glaoui's neck, sent him to the floor. The once-powerful pasha, who boasted that his 300,000 musket-toting Berber tribesmen made "cowards tremble and gave hope to the weak," groveled across the floor to kiss the feet of the Sultan...
...Moroccan nationalists, as representative of ex-Sultan Ben Youssef. But French colonists feared the influence of Si Bekkai, whom they regarded as a dangerous extremist. Final solution was to dilute Si Bekkai's influence by adding not one but two more "moderate" members-one a young (38), obscure Berber chieftain called Si Tahar ou Ali Assou Loudyi, the other an old (71), respected jurist and doctor of Koranic law, Si Mohammed Sbihi. The council's first task: to designate a Moroccan Premier to form a representative Moroccan government...
...Violence increased in both Algeria and Morocco. In Morocco, 700 Berber tribesmen burst out of the Atlas Mountains southeast of Fez and fell on the small French outpost of Imouzzer des Marmoucha. At exactly the same time, 90 miles to the north, other bands attacked the small town of Boured and two nearby outposts facing the border of Spanish Morocco. The besiegers cut roads, demolished bridges, held up French relief columns for six days before melting back into the hills. The attackers were highly organized, well armed, and skillfully directed by uniformed officers. The French bitterly charged that they were...