Will Not Be Missed

By Bill Day on August 27, 2007 11:22 PM | | Comments (0)

Driss Basri, formerly head of the Ministry of the Interior and chief architect of political repression during the "Years of Lead," has died in Paris at the age of 69. Via Laila Lalami. (Morocco Time reprints a popular joke about Basri's demise.) The BBC has more.

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