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Tuesday 04 Aug 2015 - 14:37 Makkah mean time-19-10-1436
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Rabat, (IINA) - Former Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi had plotted to assassinate Morocco’s late King Hassan II, according to Atif Abu Bakr,former head of the political department of the Palestinian movement Fatah, Morocco World News reported on Monday.
In an interview with Al Arabiya News, Atif Abu Bakr said the late Libyan president sought, with the help of the Palestinian leader Sabri Al-Banna, known as Abu Nidal, to carry out an assassination operation against the King in Rabat. Morocco’s Hassan II was not the only Arab leader on the list of targets that Moammar Qaddafi and Abu Nidal plotted to eliminate. On the other side Libyan intelligence planned to assassinate Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during the African summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, in 1989, according to Abu Bakr.
He said the Libyan and Palestinian leaders proposed the Syrian regime take the fall in the operation. “Yet, the Syrians refused the proposal.”
Still, Qaddafi and Abu Nidal did not give up, and developed a new plan to eliminate the Moroccan king.
The former head of Fatah went on to add that the plan was coordinated with the knowledge of a Moroccan opposition member.
“In 1987, Libyan aircraft delivered weapons to Abu Nidal’s agents in Morocco, who were supposed to carry out the attack on King,” he explained.
“Every day, Hassan II leaves the Royal palace in Rabat via a road, crossing Hilton forest, located between the palace and the Sofitel Hotel,” he said.
He explained that Abu Nidal’s men deployed seven machine guns, two RPGs, along with bombs on both sides of the road in the forest. They were waiting for him to cross the road in order to bombard the whole royal convoy, using rocket-propelled grenades.
However, Abu Bakr told Al Arabiya News Channel that the plot was canceled at the last minute, citing fears of a violent reaction from Morocco. He said it was canceled also due to the political agreement between the two regimes at the time.
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