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Brandon Tucker (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Reports from the European Tour this week reveal two tournaments are being added to their 2010 Race to Dubai schedule, while three existing events will be dropped. But one of the new events that caught my eye is by no means a new tournament: The King Hassan II Trophy in Morocco’s capital city of Rabat. The event was founded by the late King Hassan II along with the assistance American...
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Winds Of Jihad (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Where a picnic is against the lawMuslim Moroccans pray near Hassan II Tower in Rabat during the holy month of Ramadan, Oct. 5, 2007. Moroccans who planned a public picnic this year in protest of laws...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... the course, preventing 78 players from finishing.With no wins since the Honda Classic and King Hassan II Trophy in early 2008, he was happy just to be in contention."It is a good start to the tournament. I felt like I was really in control of my swing today. I hit the ball really nicely," he said.
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Irish Golf Desk (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The second edition of The Race to Dubai will start with four successive tournaments in South Africa in December and January.The Alfred Dunhill Championship (10-13 December) and the South African Open Championship (17-20 December) will be followed by the Africa Open and the Joburg Open before the tour heads to the Middle East for the Gulf Swing.The Africa Open and the Hassan II Golf Trophy in...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
REUTERS - The body of Mehdi ben Barka, an opponent of Morocco’s King Hassan II who was abducted in Paris in 1965, was burnt in Essonne, south of the French capital, author Georges Fleury told the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. Fleury was given secret police documents on the Mehdi ben Barka affair 25 years ago, the former marine commando told the paper in an interview to be published...
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The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The French secret services have been accused of complicity in the murder of Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan dissident who disappeared from the streets of Paris more than 40 years agoThe an exiled critic of the Moroccan King Hassan II, was kidnapped while walking past the Left Bank Brasserie Lipp in 1965. The former opposition leader has not been seen since two French "agents" are alleged to have...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... Christmas.Two new events for the circuit — the Africa Open in South Africa in January and the Hassan II Trophy in Morocco in March — feature in the first sector.Tour chief executive George O’Grady said: “We are delighted that, with the support of our partners in Dubai, we can confirm the way forward for the Race to Dubai (the new name for the Order of Merit) prior to the inaugural competition...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... body may have been burned in the Paris suburbs.Ben Barka, a leading opposition figure to then-King Hassan II, disappeared in Oct. 29, 1965, in front of the famous Left Bank Lipp Cafe. His body has never been found. Various theories have been suggested over the years: One holds that Ben Barka's body was buried in concrete, while another says it was dissolved in acid. His family has been seeking...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... body may have been burned in the Paris suburbs.Ben Barka, a leading opposition figure to then-King Hassan II, disappeared in Oct. 29, 1965, in front of the famous Left Bank Lipp Cafe. His body has never been found.Various theories have been suggested over the years: One holds that Ben Barka's body was buried in concrete, while another says it was dissolved in acid. His family has been seeking...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... body may have been burned in the Paris suburbs.Ben Barka, a leading opposition figure to then-King Hassan II, disappeared in Oct. 29, 1965, in front of the famous Left Bank Lipp Cafe. His body has never been found.Various theories have been suggested over the years: One holds that Ben Barka's body was buried in concrete, while another says it was dissolved in acid. His family has been seeking...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
REUTERS - The body of Mehdi ben Barka, an opponent of Morocco’s King Hassan II who was abducted in Paris in 1965, was burnt in Essonne, south of the French capital, author Georges Fleury told the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.Fleury was given secret police documents on the Mehdi ben Barka affair 25 years ago, the former marine commando told the paper in an interview to be published on Sunday.The...
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Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
France suspended international arrest warrants for four Moroccans over the 1965 abduction of an opponent to Morocco's then King Hassan II early on Saturday after it had issued them earlier citing a request for information from Interpol. A French justice ministry spokesman said earlier on
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France24 (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
France has issued international arrest warrants for four Moroccans over the 1965 abduction of a high-profile opponent to Morocco's then King Hassan II, an event that has embarrassed the two nations for four decades.
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WorldBlog (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
By Martin Fletcher, NBC News Correspondent CASABLANCA, Morocco – Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city, conjures images of Rick’s Bar , couscous and the third largest mosque in the world, built at fabulous cost on land reclaimed from the sea. Only those in Mecca and Medina are bigger. Critics complain that the close to $1 billion spent in the 1990s on the Hassan II Great Mosque,...
