In August 1972, the calm sky over Morocco was broken by the roar of artillery shells, and King Hassan II of Morocco took the opportunity to attack! Hassan II was attacked by fighter jets on his way home from a visit to France. In just a few seconds, the plane had been hit by shells and scaled, and 8 passengers on the plane had been killed, just one step away from the crash.
At this time, a report came from the cabin: "The tyrant is dead!" Please cease fire immediately. The fighter jets, which were watching from the sidelines, circled around after two rounds of the road.
The mastermind behind this earth-shattering coup was not the Moroccan rebels, but the Moroccan Minister of Defense, Uphkir, who was also Hassan II's most trusted right-hand man. Whether it is the tyrant's evil deeds that are disgraceful, the Minister of Defense eliminates the harm of the people; Or is there something else hidden in it?
In order to raise prestige, Hassan's confidants offered brilliant ideas
In July 1971, King Hassan II of Morocco celebrated the 10th anniversary of his accession to the throne and the 42nd birthday of Hassan II. Hassan II held a grand celebration, and while everyone was still imagining the picture of the cup changing after 45 minutes, a coup d'état quietly took place.
General Madmeh, the head of the Moroccan royal family's military service, assembled 250 paratroopers and thousands of cadets to stage a coup d'état with the intention of overthrowing Hassan II and creating a military-dominated state.
The sound of gunfire began to sound from the outskirts of the palace, and the guards on the periphery were all killed in an instant, and the banqueters who heard the gunshots panicked and fled in all directions, and the venue was suddenly chaotic. The frenzied coup d'état aimed machine guns at the unresisting entertainers, who lost their lives in bullets.
In order to avoid more casualties, the ultimate goal of the rebels ---- Hassan II ordered all soldiers to lay down their arms. After the rebels captured Hassan II, there was disagreement over the treatment of Hassan II, and internal unrest arose.
The rebel leader Madmeh was also killed in the chaos, and Hassan II seized the sudden opportunity to lobby the soldiers and threaten and lure the soldiers to launch an offensive. Many soldiers were either under pressure or cajoled at first, and their already unflinching rebellious spirits disintegrated one after another, and eventually defected.
Later, Hassan II's confidant Uffkiel vigorously eliminated the rebels who escaped after the coup, and a sudden coup came to an end.
Madmöch
After Hassan II was captured, not only was he unscathed, but even the feat of accurately seizing the opportunity to turn the rebel soldiers against him was widely spread in Morocco, and many people who were originally critical of Hassan II had to recognize Hassan II's brains and guts.
With this battle, Hassan II's prestige in the country was greatly enhanced, and a coup d'état was a ladder for Hassan II to unite the people's popularity, so that Hassan II gained a very high popular voice and national recognition.
Uphkiel
At that time, due to the turmoil in the world pattern, morocco's domestic political situation was also chaotic, and Hassan II's iron-blooded wrist made many people dissatisfied, and it was necessary to need some means to raise the prestige again and calm the situation of domestic turmoil.
So Hassan II's right hand man, ----, Morocco's defense minister, proposed that in the near future, Hassan II would visit France and arrange an "exercise" on the way home.
The so-called "exercise" is actually to launch a fake coup d'état, arrange fighter jets to shout at the king's special plane on the way back home of Hassan II, and the king will not be in danger under the "coercion" of the rebel army, and will know the rebel army with affection, move with reason, and exert both grace and power, and finally impress the "rebel army".
The intention was to reproduce the bloody coup of July 1971 and further enhance the king's reputation, but this "coup" was all planned.
Hassan II, tormented by the political turmoil in the country, recalled the wave after wave of praise from the people after quelling the last coup, and without much thought, he readily agreed to the "exercise" and gave it full authority to Uhkir to run. But is this really just a "maneuver" to raise the prestige of Hassan II?
A shocking coup d'état at a height of 1,000 meters
Being hijacked in the air for a kilometer is basically a man-made knife trick, and I am a fish meat. And King Hassan II of Morocco, surrounded by 4 fighter jets in the air, why can he still be in danger?
It turned out that all this was under the control of Hassan II, a carefully planned "exercise" to enhance the prestige of the people, but at this moment, when imagining another good time when the people chanted after the "coup" was quelled, it was not known that under this fake coup, the real coup code-named "Red Lightning" was quietly beginning.
F-5A
In August 1972, after Hassan II visited France and returned to Morocco by special plane, six F-5A fighters appeared. The passengers in the passenger plane thought it was an escort fighter and did not pay much attention.
After the fighter flew with the plane for some time, Colonel Kura, the pilot of the fighter, called out to the plane and asked him to accompany him to Kenitra Air Base for inspection.
The passengers on board were apprehensive about the sudden appearance of the situation, while Hassan II was calm. You know, on the way back from a visit to France, when he stopped in Spain, Hassan revealed to Spanish Foreign Minister Lopé Bravo that a "good play" was about to be staged.
With the shouts of the warplanes, Hassan II thought that the good play had begun, so he began his own performance. After hearing Colonel Kula's fighter jets shouting at the plane, Hassan II ordered his pilot, Mohammed Kabaji, to ignore it and continue flying on the route back home.
At this time, Colonel Kura's fighter jet shouted again: "This is the last warning!" Hassan II continued to work the "exercise" to show his undaunted monarchy. While comforting the passengers on the plane, he continued to order the pilots to continue flying.
At the end of Colonel Kura's shouting, seeing that the plane did not react at all, he did not hesitate to fire several warning shells at the front of the plane.
At this time, Hassan II did not realize the seriousness of the matter, thinking that all this was the "exercise" part of Uphkir's plan for a more realistic effect, and at the same time, Hassan II's heart was also somewhat worried.
But Hassan II thought about it, after this fishing operation, he would usher in a wave of public satisfaction, so he put these concerns behind and continued to perform.
However, with the sound of shells, the plane suffered a serious jolt, and Hassan II realized that things were somewhat out of his control, which could be a real coup d'état hidden behind the "exercise"! Escort aircraft are not allowed to carry shells, and a few warning shells can be considered for "exercises" for the time being.
However, after the attack on the special aircraft began, the shell savings of the escort fighters clearly exceeded the scope of the "exercise".
A steady stream of shells hit the plane, and the turbulence of the plane became more and more intense. Since this was a covert coup d'état, the shells carried by the fighters were not really live ammunition, but 20 mm shells for training. Such shell damage is not very high, and the special aircraft is: Relatively tough, so it was not directly shot down, which is also a blessing in misfortune.
Although it was a 20 mm shell for training, fired by a professional fighter pilot, it also hit the fuselage, wing, and tail of the aircraft, and only one of the three engines in the tail was struggling to support.
The cabin was punctured by a shell! The cabin rapidly lost pressure, the air in the cabin became extremely thin, and the oxygen mask had come off to provide air to the passengers. The fighters' offensive continued, and the passengers were in a state of panic.
At this time, it was only more than ten minutes away from landing at Rabat Airport. Hassan II continued to comfort the passengers with a hard scalp, and came to the cockpit to shout at the fighters, hoping to restore the glory of last year and quell the coup with his three inches of uncorrupted tongue.
However, the last time he was faced with only a group of coaxed recruits, this time he was facing a professional air force major who was really "evil" against the king, and his shouts had no effect, and the fighters continued to attack.
Major Kura is a true Air Force major, but the pilot of the plane, Mohammed Kabaji, is not a fuel-efficient lamp. As one of the first fighter pilots of the Moroccan Air Force, Mohammed Kabaji has a wealth of experience in piloting. After his retirement, he was favored by Hassan II and appointed as the captain of the special aircraft.
Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to the Rabat airport where he landed, Major Kura was confused. Unwilling that the coup would end in Hassan's safe landing, he frantically fired all the bullets from the fighter jet, but it was cleverly avoided by the captain of the plane, Kabaji, who was still flying towards Rabat Airport with the last engine.
Colonel Kula, who was no longer free of bullets, was so distraught that he finally made a heartbreaking move, and he was going to die with the plane! He bid farewell to the other two fighters who were also in the coup camp, shouting that he was going to die for the country.
Maybe at the last moment, he suddenly feared death, maybe he still imagined that after the successful coup d'état, he would ascend to the sky and go from then on, or maybe he had estimated that the fighter jet could crash into the special plane. At the last moment of rushing to the plane, he pulled the ejection seat and fled the fighter he was flying. Due to the impact of the catapult, the fighter plane crashed into the special plane, and the special plane crashed dangerously.
The craziest Colonel Kura temporarily left the thrilling air coup, but of the six fighter jets surrounding the plane, there were still two pilots carrying the 20mm coup faction, Lieutenant Ziad and pilot Lieutenant Bukhalf.
Lieutenant Ziyad's fighter jets had some malfunctions, with only one cannon to attack, while Lieutenant Bukhalf was informed of the coup before the flight and was very distracted. Coupled with the fact that the captain of the special plane was an experienced Kabaji, most of the bullets they fired at the special plane were empty, and they also ran out of their own bullets.
After the repeated attacks just now, Hassan II had long been out of his soul, and he had forgotten to hold his own king's shelf, let alone that the suddenly stopped fighter attack was without bullets. Hassan II seized on the last vestiges of sanity and ordered the crew to shout at the fighters, saying that he had been killed and demanding that the firing stop.
The target of the coup d'état was Hassan II, so the crew on board quickly did the same, shouting at the fighter: "The tyrant is dead!" Please stop shooting now! We managed to make a forced landing, please stop shooting immediately! ”
The crew had already passed away at the ghost gate, and the shouts to the fighter plane were also a mess, and it was this state of tension that made them believe that Hassan was dead. After circling for a while, the fighter turned around and left.
In the end, Captain Kabaji flew a trembling special plane to the Rabat airport, and rushed out of the runway during the landing, but fortunately, he successfully led the heavily damaged special plane to a thrilling landing.
In this thrilling coup d'état at an altitude of 1,000 meters, two passengers were killed and several passengers were injured, while the rest were safely evacuated.
But after leaving the plane, this coup is not over! When Uphkiel learned of the failure of the operation, he informed Ameklan, the rebel air commander at the Kenitra base on the other side, of the failure. Amechlan was furious and decided to settle Hassan II at the airport, completing the feat of overthrowing Hassan II's regime. Three more F-5A fighters were sent to attack the airfield.
The panicked king had already left quickly, leaving only a few government officials at the airport who were still waiting. But the pilots of the F-5A fighters did not know this, and they indiscriminately strafed the crowd at rabat airfield. Although it was only a 20 mm training bomb, it caused a lot of damage to the unsuspecting crowd, eventually killing 8 people and injuring more than 50 people.
This earth-shattering coup d'état, hidden under the "exercise," has come to an end for the time being.
What did the King of the Kingdom of Morocco, Hassan II, do to be hunted down and killed in such a way?
Hassan II's plane
The "evil deeds" of "tyrants"
Is it really a "tyrant" to gain popularity by relying on a fake "coup" and being hunted down and killed by Hassan II?
On the contrary, Hassan II received Kissinger's praise: "In the Arab countries, there is no leader who is as intelligent and capable of controlling everything as Hassan. ”
So why was Hassan II so hated by his own henchmen that he didn't even hesitate to do so?
Fast forward to July 1971, the coup d'état that marked the tenth anniversary of Hassan II's accession to the throne and was also Hassan II's 42nd birthday. After the coup was temporarily put to rest, Uffkill executed most of the minor leaders of the coup with thunderous means.
As is customary, the execution of the coup leader requires the approval of the king, and Uphkiel's behavior is somewhat arrogant. Such trespassing ushered in popular discontent and also made Hassan II quite critical.
Later, Hassan II ruled with an iron fist, sparing no effort to strike at parties that disagreed with his own politics, and quickly quelled a large number of opposition voices in Morocco.
Having seen the king's means, Uffkill could not help but feel a chill in his heart while admiring it, and the powerful party was still firmly controlled by Hassan, not to mention the commoner himself. Hassan II advocated freedom and defended national independence, which is very different from Morocco's traditional political views for many years.
Uphkir's heart also wanted to establish a core of national leadership with military power as the mainstay, and the original Hassan II swept away the rest of the parties and seized the military and political power, with the ultimate goal of national independence, not for military dictatorship. Such political views not only contradicted Uphkiel, but also touched the rights and positions of most of Morocco's high-ranking officials, which made them hate Hassan II to the bone.
At first, Uphkir was not so disgusted with Hassan II, but as Ulfkir's position rose, he gradually became the part of the person who was touched by power and status.
There is an old Chinese saying called the Lord of Merit, and often a general with excessive military power will be jealous of the monarch and eventually suppressed to the point of no turning over, and Uffkir is also afraid that one day, Hassan II will also suppress himself. Instead of being powerless to fight back at that time, it is better to strike first, overthrow the regime of Hassan II, and establish a regime with him at its core.
In the midst of interest and panic, coupled with the incitement and support of the CIA, and coinciding with Hassan II's imminent visit to France, it was a good opportunity to miss it, and Uphkiel finally decided to launch a coup d'état, so he began his deployment.
Uphkill first visited Kenitla Air Base several times and established relations with Lieutenant Colonel Amechland. (Ameklan was the commander of the ground air force who later staged the air coup and the perpetrator of the order to hunt down Hassan II at the airport) Uphkir consciously or unconsciously mentioned Hassan II's "atrocities" to Ameklan, portraying Hassan II as a "tyrant".
In The mouth of Uphkir, Hassan II knew only pleasure, was absurd, held a high position but did not consider the people at all, and killed decisively, and once he disagreed with himself, he showed no mercy. Under The guidance of Uffkill, Amechland, who did not know the truth at all, hated the king he had never met.
When Uphkill saw that the time was ripe, he laid out the coup plan and the plan, and Amechlan agreed to the plan almost without thinking, and encouraged many people at the base to participate in the coup, including Colonel Kura and Lieutenant Ziad in the three rebel fighters.
Amechlan was supposed to personally go on the field and shoot down the "tyrant's" plane with his own hands, but due to a sudden and vicious illness before the coup, he had to command on the ground. This began the coup d'état that had been launched in less than a year.
And the tyrant Hassan II in The Mouth of Uphkir is a nonsense. In the turbulent world pattern, Hassan II insisted on seeking a way for the survival of developing countries, insisted on giving priority to the development of agriculture, supported free trade, and sought to change the unbalanced economic situation, all for the country and the people.
After several years in power, the most extravagant thing was to build a golf course for himself, and his only hobby was to play golf.
Good and evil will be rewarded
In the turbulent world pattern and the unpredictable international situation, Morocco, as a developing country, has struggled to survive in the turmoil of the world pattern.
Hassan II vigorously quelled the domestic chaos and sought new routes to make Morocco's economic development, which had been on the cusp of the storm, better than ever. And during the reign of Hassan II, who was also assassinated several times because of his disagreement with the control of the United States and the political views of the domestic power holders, can this troubled king be called a "tyrant"?
Influenced by interests, Uffkiel has forgotten the original intention of the young boy Lang to join the army, forgotten the enthusiasm for the country and the people, and finally took a step that cannot be turned back. Those who wield power will eventually be manipulated by power.
The former Moroccan minister of defence, once Hassan II's most trusted confidant, was eventually shot three times by two of the king's cronies, who pulled the fatal trigger at his comrades who had fought side by side for years to quell the rebellion.
At the moment when the bullet flew out, Uffkiel's mind was filled with regret or no regrets; We do not know whether the king's heart is still full of reluctance or hatred.
Later, Uphkir's wife and daughter were escorted to a prison in the Sahara, where they began a fifteen-year prison life, and in 1987 they were escorted to another prison for eleven years. Pardon was not granted until the next monarch took the throne.
It is worth mentioning that Colonel Kura, who was the most distraught in this air coup, did not lower his head after being arrested, and looked like he was going to die calmly, if it were not for political disagreements, perhaps Major Kura would also be a good air force major.
In November 1972, all participants in the air coup were approved, 11 of whom were sentenced to death and 32 who were sent to prison. After the end of this thrilling coup, Hassan II, who escaped twice, unexpectedly gained a higher prestige, and through this incident, Hassan II once again swept away the political situation in the country and brought his power to an unprecedented height.
After this, Hassan II also experienced several hunts, but each time escaped death, and finally died of a heart attack on July 23, 1999, ending his ups and downs and great life.