Labels:text | font | number OCR: Mobipocket Reade € 21:20 X Oxford DL. . 1 ARA 9 Abd el-Krim (1881-1963) Moroccan Berber resistance leader. In 1921 he roused the Rif Berbers, defeated a Spanish army of 20,000. and He held out until 1925, when a Joint Franco-Spanish force took him prisoner. He was exiled to Reunion unti 1947, when he was given permission to go to France. On the way he escaped to Caro, where he set up the Magheb Bureau, or Liberation Committee of the Arsh West. After Moroccan independent- ce (1956), he refused to retum as long as French troops remained on African soll.