He was educated at a Koranic school in Guelma until he was 14, then an Arabic secondary school in | The process culminated with the adoption of a constitution 1976 that laid down Algeria's political structure |
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Martin Evans; John Phillips 2007 | His place of birth variously appear as , the village of Clauzel near Guelma, or , and his date of birth as 16 August 1925, 23 August 1927, or in most sources as 1932 |
Algeria bought the majority of arms from the Soviet Union.
20He reached the rank of , then the highest rank in the FLN forces, and from 1960 he was chief of staff of the , the FLN's military wing | After independence [ ] In 1961, after its vote of self-determination, Algeria declared independence and the French announced it was independent |
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Initially, he was seen as potentially a weak leader, with no significant power base except inside the army, and it was not known to what extent he commanded the officer corps | In response to the US support for Israel in the , Algeria severed diplomatic ties with USA |
In response to Egypt's normalization of ties with Israel, Algeria along with other Arab countries condemned and severed ties with Egypt in 1977.
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