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Title: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on April 12, 2012, 02:04:57 PM
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/04/201241241422807422.html

RIP

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: Pingvin on April 12, 2012, 02:21:26 PM
RIP.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: Beet on April 12, 2012, 03:01:44 PM
The Algerian Nasser is dead.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: Antonio the Sixth on April 12, 2012, 04:56:11 PM
RIP

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: Phony Moderate on April 12, 2012, 06:50:42 PM
RIP Ahmed Ben Bella.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: minionofmidas on April 13, 2012, 12:28:37 PM
Wait, he was alive all this time?

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: politicus on April 13, 2012, 12:44:17 PM
Yup, they just kept him in a freezer for 30 years, when they didn't need him. Then the government had him reheated a couple of years ago, so they could brag about how Algeria had the eldest statesman in the Magrebh countries.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on April 13, 2012, 12:53:39 PM

Claude Lévi-Strauss syndrome.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: minionofmidas on April 13, 2012, 01:09:47 PM
Known to older people as Molotov syndrome.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: Antonio the Sixth on April 13, 2012, 04:39:43 PM

Actually, this was my first reaction when I heard this news.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on April 13, 2012, 05:20:25 PM

Molotov's dead? When?!

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: minionofmidas on April 15, 2012, 05:06:01 AM
1986. :P

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: Tetro Kornbluth on April 15, 2012, 06:09:03 AM

Will be referred to soon as Oscar Niemeyer syndrome... assuming the venerable architect is not immortal, which may well be.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on April 17, 2012, 06:05:13 AM
Quote from: Mist on April 15, 2012, 06:09:03 AM

Will be referred to soon as Oscar Niemeyer syndrome... assuming the venerable architect is not immortal, which may well be.

Such assumption is a blasphemy.

Title: Re: Ahmed Ben Bella dead at 95
Post by: Stranger in a strange land on April 17, 2012, 07:01:57 PM
His opposition to the Iraq War in 2002-2003 made some headlines, as did his appointment to the African Union's "Council of the Wise" but yeah other than that he basically hadn't done anything notable since he was overthrown in 1965.


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