Ūfqīr, Muḥammad

LC control no.	n 99042132
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Ūfqīr, Muḥammad *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Oufkir, Mohamed Oufkir, Mohammad Oufkir, Mohammed أوفقير, محمد
Associated country	Morocco
Birth date	1920-05-14
Death date	1972-08-16
Place of birth	Aïn Chaïr (Morocco)
Place of death	Ṣukhayrāt (Rabat, Morocco)
Affiliation	Morocco. Wizārat al-Dākhilīyah Morocco. Wizārat al-Difāʻ Corps expéditionnaire français d'Extrême-Orient France. Armée. Régiment de tirailleurs marocains, 4e
Profession or occupation	Generals Cabinet officers
Found in	Oufkir, une destin marocain, c1999: p. 125 (Mohamed Oufkir; b. 1920; d. Aug. 1972) LC database, July 12, 99 (hdg.: Ūfqīr, Muḥammad) Les jardins du roi, c2000: t.p. (Oufkir) cover p. 4 (Mohammed Oufkir) Wikipedia, via www, 22 July 2014: (General Mohammad Oufkir; b. 1920, Aïn Chaïr near Bouarfa; d. 16 August 1972, Rabat; Arabic: محمد أوفقير‎ = Muḥammad Ūfqīr; senior military Moroccan officer who held many important governmental posts. He was assassinated after being involved in a failed coup attempt) Wikipedia, September 9, 2022 (Mohamed Oufkir; General Mohammad Oufkir; born 14 May 1920 near Bouarfa, French Protectorate of Morocco; died 16 August 1972, believed to have been assassinated for his alleged role in the failed 1972 Moroccan coup attempt; a native of Aïn Chair in the Tafilait region, stronghold of high Atlas Berbers in southeastern Morocco; studied at the Berber College of Azrou near Meknes; entered the Military Academy of Dar El Beida (Meknes) in 1939; enlisted as a reserve lieutenant in the French Army in 1941; served in the French Expeditionary Corps (4th Regiment of Moroccan Tirailleurs) on the Italian front in 1944, won the Croix de Guerre, as well as the U.S. Silver Star; fought with the French Far East Expeditionary Corps in the First Indochina War, 1947-1949; promoted to caption in 1949 and named to the Legion d'Honneur; right-hand man of King Hassan in the 1960s and early 1970s; believed to have been responsible for the "disappearance" of Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka in Paris in 1965; named interior minister in 1967, vastly increasing his power through direct control over most of the security establishment; after a failed coup in 1971 he was named chief of staff and minister of defense; accused of plotting the 1972 coup attempt against King Hassan II, died of multiple bullet wounds; on orders of the king, his entire family was sent to secret desert prison camps, not released until 1991)