Abd el-Krim
War leader and president of the Rif Republic from 1921 to 1926 · Politicians · Lived 1882 to 1963 · aged 81
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Something wrong?He led Riffian tribes against two European powers in Morocco and pioneered guerrilla tunnel warfare a generation before Vietnam - tactics that Mao, Ho, and Guevara all studied.
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Abb el Krim. Revista Ejército n. 962. junio 2021. p. 50
1921-08-20, La Voz, A la moda, Tovar
1921-12-05, La Voz, La pesadilla del ministro de la Guerra, Tovar
1925-06-27, Caras y Caretas, Cabeza de quebracho
1949 - Sayf El Islam Al-Badr, Sayf El Islam Yehya & Abdelkrim Al Khattabi - Dar al-Shura
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Mohammed ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi was born on 12 January 1882 in Morocco. With his brother M'Hammad, he organized a coalition of Riffian tribes into a large-scale revolt against the Spanish and French Protectorates controlling the Rif and wider Morocco, becoming president of the Republic of the Rif. His forces introduced tunneling as a modern combat technique - the first time it appeared in twentieth-century war. Those methods traveled: Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara all drew directly from his playbook. After the fighting he moved to Cairo, where he became a major voice in Arab nationalism. He died on 6 February 1963.
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