STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "It was Ahmad Boukhari, at the request of a CIA agent named Colonel Martin, who built the steel cauldron into which dozens of dead Moroccan opposition activists were to disappear...." Sunday July 1, 1:15 AM New revelations on 1965 murder of Moroccan opposition leader PARIS, June 30 (AFP) - The body of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka, who became a cause celebre after he was kidnapped and tortured to death in France in 1965, was dissolved in a bath of acid after being shipped back to Morocco with French complicity, two newspapers said Saturday. Basing their joint report on testimony from former Moroccan secret service agent, Ahmed Boukhari, the French daily Le Monde and the Moroccan Le Journal said French officials were also involved in the murder. On October 29, 1965, French police officers in central Paris arrested Ben Barka, who had been sentenced to death in absentia in Morocco for left wing activities during the repressive rule of King Hassan II. His body was never recovered. "Thanks to French complicity, the car that transported the corpse was able to enter the airport, park on the tarmac beside a Moroccan military plane, and given enough time to place 'the package' on board," the reports said. "The conniving of secret services, if not among politicians, ensured that the Ben Barka affair stayed secret, because the crime of state carried out by Morocco on French soil became a crime of states, involving France," Le Monde and Le Journal said. According to the newspapers' investigation, Ben Barka was taken to a villa in Fontenay-le-Vicomte south of Paris, and tortured for several hours before being killed by the then Moroccan interior minister, General Mohammed Oufkir, and his assistant, commander Ahmed Dlimi. Fifty hours after his death, the corpse was transported to Morocco, and placed in a cauldron of acid at Dar-el-Mokri, a torture centre in a suburb of Rabat. It was Ahmed Boukhari, at the request of a CIA agent named Colonel Martin, who built the steel cauldron into which dozens of dead Moroccan opposition activists were to disappear between 1961 and 1967, the report said. Interviewed on Radio France Internationale on Saturday, Boukhari said he was "ready to collaborate with those who wanted to learn the truth" of what happened to Ben Barka. "I am really available. I am ready to face all these policemen," he said. The former secret service agent said he decided to come forward to free his conscience and to help Ben Barka's family and other families whose loved ones disappeared. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
