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	Ahmed Ben Bella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mohamed Ahmed Ben Bella (Muhammad Ahmad Bin Balla) (born December 25, 1918?, Maghnia, Algeria) was the first President of Algeria, and seen by many as the Father of the Nation.
		Ben Bella was born in a small village in western Algeria during the height of the French colonial period to a Sufi Muslim family.
		Ben Bella's first language was French, not Arabic, and it was not until he travelled to Egypt while trying to gain support for the Algerian independence struggle that he actually learned Arabic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahmed_Ben_Bella (701 words)

	Ahmed Ben Bella
		Ben Bella was a soldier in the French army during World War 2, for which he was decorated for bravery.
		After the end of the war, Ben Bella became active in the Algerian battle for independence, was arrested in 1952, but managed to escape to Cairo, Egypt.
		Ben Bella was one of the 9 legendary members of the revolutionary committee that developed into FLN (Front de Libération Nationale).
	i-cias.com /e.o/benbella.htm (223 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ahmed Ben Bella
		Ben Bella was a soldier in the French army during World War II, where he was decorated for bravery.
		Ben Bella returned to Algeria, where after campaigning against Yussuf Ben Kheddha he became premier minister of Algeria in 1962 and was elected president the following year.
		Ben Bella was placed under house arrest until 1980, after which he left Algeria until 1990, when he returned.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ahmed-Ben-Bella (558 words)

	France KILLED 1/2 of the Algerian population (Al-Ahram) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		These are changing times." Ben Bella, now based in Switzerland, was born in 1916 in the small town of Maghnia, perched high in the rugged mountains in the far west of Algeria, a stone's throw away from the Moroccan border.
		Ben Bella is leader of the Movement for Democracy in Algeria (MDA) and heads a number of non-governmental organisations, including the Democratic Revolutionary Arab Dialogue Forum, a leftist pan-Arab group.
		For Ben Bella is not an arm-chair intellectual but a revolutionary at heart who even in his 80s hates to sit around "doing nothing." Following his release from prison Ben Bella was placed under house arrest until 1980 when he eventually left Algeria for exile only to return, albeit briefly, in 1990.
	www.talkaboutculture.com /group/alt.culture/messages/3922.html (2699 words)

	'Resisting imperialism: Ahmed Ben Bella and the Algerian Revolution' - swp.ie - Socialist Worker
		Ben Bella, who had been decorated for bravery while fighting for the Free French Army against the Nazis, was one of the many returning soldiers who joined the resistance.
		Ben Bella was sent to Cairo where his role was to win diplomatic support and procure arms from regimes sympathetic the revolution such as Nasser's Egypt and Tito's Yugoslavia.
		Ben Bella was elected president by a constituent assembly in July 1963 and his government took many progressive measures.
	www.swp.ie /socialistworker/2005/sw237/socialistworker-237-7.htm (1315 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Profile \| Ahmed Ben Bella: Plus ça change
		Ben Bella, now based in Switzerland, was born in 1916 in the small town of Maghnia, perched high in the rugged mountains in the far west of Algeria, a stone's throw away from the Moroccan border.
		Nowadays, with the advent of a new millennium, Ben Bella rubs shoulders with a different set of post-independence African and Arab heads of state, many half his age, some not even born when he was overthrown in a palace coup in 1965 engineered by his Defence Minister Houari Boumedienne.
		Ben Bella's own removal by the military ushered in a new chapter in Algeria's history, one in which the military dominated the political arena.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/533/profile.htm (2840 words)

	National Liberation Front (Algeria) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To counter this, the Political Bureau was established by Ahmed Ben Bella, Colonel Houari Boumédienne, and Muhammad Khidr.
		Ahmed Ben Bella became the Premier in 1963 but was overthrown by Colonel Boumédienne in 1965.
		The Colonel held tight control over the party leadership until his death in 1978, at which time the party reorganized into its present incarnation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Liberation_Front_(Algeria) (384 words)

	Ahmed Ben Bella
		Ahmed Ben Bella was born in Maghnia, Algeria, in 1916.
		Ben Bella was captured in 1952 but he escaped to Egypt where he founded the National Liberation Front (FLN).
		However Ben Bella was deposed in 1965 in a military coup led by General Houari Boumedienne and was kept under house arrest until 1979.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDbella.htm (194 words)

	NPQ
		Ben Bella was both prime minister and then president of Algeria from 1962 to 1965.
		Ben Bella was interviewed for NPQ in Rome by Igor Man of the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
		BEN BELLA: If and when the West understands that the Gulf War has terribly wounded the Islamic world in general, but particularly the Arab world, it will find the right words with which to communicate with those it has humiliated with its fierce imitation of the Crusades.
	www.digitalnpq.org /archive/1995_summer/only_road.html (882 words)

	postwar
		Ben Bella accuses Morocco of sympathizing with the rebels.
		Ben Bella declares that the army will never be used against the Berber population.
		Aït Ahmed is sentenced to death and pardoned the 12.
	hjem.get2net.dk /algerweb/postwar.htm (243 words)

	Ahmed Ben Bella Biography / Biography of Ahmed Ben Bella Biography
		Ahmed Ben Bella (born 1918) was one of the "historic chiefs" of the Algerian war of independence and the first president of the Algerian Republic.
		Ahmed Ben Bella was born into a modest peasant family on December 25, 1918, at Marnia, a small town near the Algerian-Moroccan frontier.
		Back in Algeria by 1946, Ben Bella had become discouraged by the failure of the French to liberalize the colonial regime and joined the nationalist party, the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTDL).
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ahmed-ben-bella (264 words)

	Ahmed Ben Bella -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ben Bella was the son of a farmer and small businessman in Maghnia in the département of Oran.
		Bella Abzug was born on July 24, 1920, in New York City.
		Art, to Ben Shahn, was “one of the last remaining outposts of free speech.” He used art to express his social consciousness.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015347 (660 words)

	Ben Bella in Beirut
		Ben Bella, a guest of the Arab National Club, was greeted at the Airport of Beirut by Minister of Vocational Education Farouq Barbir and the club's leading founder, Monah Solh.
		Now, 81 Ben Bella said he was delighted to be back in Beirut, which he had not visited in 40 years, and praised the country's efforts to reverse the effects of the civil war, on political and material levels.
		Ben Bella lashed out at religious fanaticism and cautioned against "confusing Islam with those who pretend to be Muslims," in a reference to extremists.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/970723/1997072314.html (359 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		Ben Bella was quietly taken away from the president's palace, just across from my 4th floor apartment.
		Ben Bella returned to Algiers after six years' absence in prison and joined hands with army chief Colonel Houari Boumedienne to become the first president.
		Ben Bella was imprisoned until 1978 and remained under house arrest until 1990.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/FA07Ak01.html (5982 words)

	Algeria - Security Interests Outside the Maghrib
		More controversially, Ben Bella's government also sponsored efforts to overthrow independent African governments that were considered to be reactionary or too closely linked to former colonial powers.
		Ben Bella's activism, however, was ineffectual in weakening the opponents at which it was aimed.
		After Ben Bella's overthrow in 1965, the Boumediene government turned its attention to domestic development issues and limited its direct involvement in destabilizing foreign governments.
	countrystudies.us /algeria/156.htm (694 words)

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		In 1956, Hocine Aït-Ahmed, along with Mohamed Boudiaf, Mohamed Khider, Ahmed Ben Bella and Mostefa Lacheref, was kidnapped when the colonial authorities hijacked the plane that was carrying them from Morocco to Tunis, where the Maghreb Peace Conference was to have been held.
		On the eve of the general election, representatives of the [presidential] candidates were denied access to the polling stations [for the military and nomadic vote] thus confirming the regime’s intention to engineer widespread fraud in favor of the military’s chosen candidate.
		Fluent in several languages, Hocine Aït-Ahmed received a Bachelor’s degree in Law and defended his doctoral thesis on human rights in the Charter and practice of the OAU in Nancy, France in 1975.
	www.geocities.com /hocine_ait_ahmed/Biography.htm (1152 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ahmed Ben Bella (North African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ahmed Ben Bella[Akhmed´ ben bel´lA] Pronunciation Key, 1919–, Algerian statesman.
		Imprisoned (1956–62) for his activities, he became Algeria's first premier after independence was declared in 1962 and was elected president in 1963.
		In 1965, Ben Bella's government was toppled in a coup led by Houari Boumedienne and kept under house arrest until 1979.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BenBella.html (198 words)

	Ben Bella, Ahmed - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ahmed Ben Bella, a key figure in the Algerian independence movement, was born in Marnia near the Moroccan border.
		Ben Bella was imprisoned in 1950 following an attack on a post office near his hometown, but escaped two years later to live underground in North Africa and Europe.
		Ben Bella's propensity to meddle in other government ministers' affairs alienated Boumedienne who deposed him and placed him under house arrest for 15 years.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/2104.html (556 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 20 \| 1965: Students protest after Algiers coup
		Ex-president Ahmed Ben Bella is being held prisoner in a remote Sahara outpost.
		Ahmed Ben Bella was brought to power after leading the struggle for independence from France, which was finally achieved in July 1962.
		The 1991 election was won by an Islamist party but the result was annulled and Ben Bella was sent back into exile.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/20/newsid_2943000/2943388.stm (504 words)

	Algerian Revolutionary to speak in Dublin on Friday - Dublin Anti-War - Indymedia Ireland
		One of the leaders of the Algerian Revolution, Ahmed Ben Bella, is to speak in Dublin at the anti war forum organised by the Irish Anti War Movement next weekend.
		Ben Bella won honours fighting the Nazis in the second world war as part of the Free French Army.
		Ben Bella was the first presicdent of Independent Algeria, and then he was overthrown in amiltary coup in 1963, not to be released until 1979.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=68807 (413 words)

	Ben Bella, Ahmed on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Imprisoned (1956-62) for his activities, he became Algeria's first premier after independence was declared in 1962 and was elected president in 1963.
		Ben Bella à son arrivée à Alger le 4 août 1962 Ahmed Ben Bella fut le premier président algérien.
		L'ancien président algérien Ahmed Ben Bella le 5 novembre 2001 à Beyrouth Près de 160 intellectuels et activistes arabes e.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BenB1ella.asp (383 words)

	Algeria - Polarization and Politicization
		Ait Ahmed was later succeeded as chief of the OS by Ahmed Ben Bella, one of the early Algerian nationalist leaders.
		Ben Bella created a new underground action committee to replace the OS, which had been broken up by the French police in 1950.
		The leaders of these regions and their followers became known as the "internals." Ben Bella, Khider, and Ait Ahmed formed the External Delegation in Cairo.
	countrystudies.us /algeria/27.htm (1549 words)

	Morocco and Algeria: Integration is a necessity :: moroccoTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In a statement to the Algerian press, Ahmed Ben Bella, the former Algerian president, voiced again his willingness to work on bringing both Moroccans and Algerians close together by reopening the borders between the two countries.
		Ben Bella was right when he said that the reason for this historical dispute is due to the common colonial heritage.
		Ben Bella’s statement on opening mutual dialogue between the two countries reflects the king initiative, several months ago, of exempting the Visa for all Algerian citizens who want to visit Morocco.
	www.moroccotimes.com /paper/article.asp?idr=22&id=2926 (484 words)

	AHMED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ahmed Shah Massoud, an Afghani military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan.
		Ahmed Qurei, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority.
		Ahmed Sanjar, a ruler of the Seljuk Turks.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ah/Ahmed.htm (157 words)

	The Militant - December 8, 2003 -- How Cuba aided revolutionary Algeria in 1963
		Gleijeses describes Cuba’s response to Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella’s appeal for assistance in the face of imperialist-backed military aggression in 1963 by the Moroccan government.
		When the Cuban medical mission arrived in Algiers in May 1963, Ben Bella was in Addis Ababa at the founding conference of the Organization of African Unity.
		Ben Bella, the Arab, “won approval of subsaharans,” the U.S. State Department noted dryly.
	www.themilitant.com /2003/6743/674359.html (1250 words)

	History of the Algerian Workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In March of 1954, Ahmed Ben Bella, an ex-sergeant in the French army who was deported to Egypt for his leftist political beliefs, joined eight other Algerian exiles to form what would become the National Liberation Front (FLN).
		Ahmed Ben Bella, with the support of Colonel Houari Boumedienne, the National Liberation Army chief of staff, was elected the first president of Algeria in 1962.
		In 1978, Colonel Chadli Benjedid became the second elected president of Algeria, and began to relax the government’s authoritarian practices, pardoning for example Ahmed Ben Bella in 1980, though he continued to follow Boumedienne’s practice of putting the military into the political arena.
	www.marxists.org /history/algeria (1524 words)

	MAY DAY IN BELGIUM: BEN BELLA HONORED AT WORKERS PARTY FEST
		Keynote speaker for the anti-war theme was the leader of Algeria's liberation struggle from France, former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella.
		The 86-year-old Ben Bella described the war on Iraq as "a war decided by the group of oil barons who lead the United States today.
		Ben Bella also described "people like Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and Cheney" as being "part of a Christian religious current that represents a fundamentalism much more dangerous than that of Bin Laden.
	www.iacenter.org /archive2005/belgium505.htm (467 words)

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		Ahmed Ben Bella, with the support of Colonel Houari Boumedienne, the National Liberation Army chief of staff, emerged as the winner and was elected the first president of Algeria in 1962.
		During his three years as President of Algeria, Ben Bella made some attempts to revive Algeria, but eventually succumbed to the vanity of international politics and domestic autocracy.
		Benjedid also pardoned Ahmed Ben Bella in 1980 and released him from house arrest.
	www.arab.net /algeria/aa_independence.htm (1272 words)

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