Cheikh el-Arab

Ahmed Agouliz (1927 – 7 August 1964), nicknamed Cheikh el Arab, was a Moroccan nationalist and veteran of the Moroccan Army of Liberation.

Life
Agouliz was born in Tata Province.

Trial
On 14 March 1964, after four months of trial, he was sentenced to death in absentia with Mehdi Ben Barka and other defendants, for conspiracy and attempted assassination against King Hassan II. According to Moumen Diouri, also sentenced to death during the trial, this "plot" was invented from scratch by Hassan II's entourage in order to get rid of their most active opponents.

After a lengthy manhunt by police under the command of General Mohamed Oufkir, police officers found and shot him on 7 August 1964 in Casablanca. Diouri claimed that he committed committed suicide in front of Oufkir rather than surrender.