Talk:Moroccan Army of Liberation

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[edit] Name ?

• I mean to recall that in Arabic it is called "Jayshu attahri alwatany", which would mean in English "The National Armey of Liberation" and in French "L'Armée Nationale de Libération" ?!? The Algerian one is called ALN, probably "Armée de Libération Nationale". I am confused, anyone? Thanks wikima 20:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
• It was called Army of Liberation in Time Magazin [1]. The Spanish call it exercitio liberacion. I cannot find an Arabic-Moroccan source. We'll keep on looking. S710 09:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

End of the Army

I've added the surprising end of the Southern Liberation Army, the section that fought in the Sahara: it was neutralized by Spanish and French forces during Operation Ecouvillon (1958) after the Moroccan Army denied assistance to their former proxies. The sources are second-hand: neither the letter to Le Monde by Serfaty nor the article of Journal Hebdo can be found at their original sites in internet, but Le Journal Hebdo was, until its closure, quite a trustworthy weekly and personally I know that Abraham Serfaty, who is a widely admired political activist, supports this vision: I've on the record a somewhat more detailed description of the Operation Ecouvillon, which I intend to link here as soon as it's published anywhere and stops to be original research... --Ilyacadiz (talk) 23:54, 12 January 2009 (UTC)