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...Fatima Oufkir and family detained since...
...Oufkirs are victims of vengeance at its most perverse. Fatima Oufkir's husband, General Mohammed Oufkir, was Morocco's Defense Minister when air force leaders unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate King Hassan II on Aug. 16, 1972. General Oufkir was accused of complicity and the next day was found shot dead. Four days later, Fatima, now 54, the six Oufkir children, who now range in age from 21 to 37, and Fatima's cousin Achoura Chenna, 54, were put under house arrest and have been held since then without explanation, charge or trial in various houses and farms...
Word that Ben Barka had been kidnaped was flashed to Rabat by Ahmed Dlimi, Oufkir's deputy for intelligence operations, who had surreptitiously entered France in order to supervise the first stage of "Operation Ben Barka." Oufkir immediately went to France; his cover story for leaving Rabat was that he intended to visit Switzerland, where his children were in school...
...second night after his capture, Ben Barka was confronted in a bedroom of the villa by Interior Minister Oufkir and by two other Moroccans. All three carried pistols. "Who gave you the authorization for what you are doing?" Ben Barka demanded angrily. Replied Oufkir: "We are here in the name of our master and for the sake of Morocco." For several minutes, the three Moroccans carried on a loud argument with their prisoner. Then one of them said: "Let's finish this comedy. You were sentenced to death in Morocco. Now you're going...
Violent Deaths. Thirteen people were eventually charged with crimes related to the Ben Barka case, but few actually stood trial. Oufkir and an intelligence agent code named "Chtouki" (real name: Mohammed Miloued) refused to return to France. They were convicted in absentia of illegal arrest and confinement and given life sentences. Dlimi did stand trial and was acquitted. Two of the French undercover agents got prison terms for "illegally detaining" him. Other people involved in the murder try to live in the shadows. Since Ben Barka's death, at least 37 people connected with the case have disappeared; some...