Lahbib Ayoub

Lahbib Ayoub (born in 1951 with Tifariti, in the south-east of Smara in what was then the Río de Oro Spanish) is the cofounder of the Front Polisario and former military chief, but it is also the combatant emblematic of 1974 with 1980.

The man is also one of the seven historical leaders of Polisario who sat within the first executive committee of the separatist movement directed by El-Ouali Moustapha Sayed.

In October 2002, Lahbib Ayoub turns over towards its fatherland, the Morocco. It was received by Mohammed VI and made him act of allegiance.

In the camp of Aousserd, it leaves behind him his mother and three of her brothers: “I am not anxious for them, they will never dare the touch”. By precaution however, his wife and her children joined it discreetly, via the Mauritania, before the advertisement of her rallying.

Principal feats of arms

the September 30th 1973, with the head of a heteroclite column armed on spoiled rifles, lance a crowned attack of success against a Spanish station , side of Amgala.
In December 1975, it carries out a raid flash against the first Marocains battalions charged “to recover” the the Sahara, on the side of Haouza.
to avenge El-Ouali, killed in front of Nouakchott the June 6th 1976, it goes down from Nouadhibou and occupies the suburbs of the capital Mauritanian from where its guns bombard the presidency.
In May 1977, it is him which directs the attack on the mining city of Zouerate, defended by fifteen hundred men and where several hundreds of French co-operators and their families live.
In January 1979, it attacks in North, beyond the border of the the Sahara, in Lemseied, then with Tan-Tan, which it occupies during five hours with thousand seven hundred men. In February, it is caught of them with the garrisons Zag and of Jdiriya. In May, with that of el-Khaloua, then, three months later, with those of Bir Anzaren and Lebouirate, where it makes 111 prisoners and destroys 37 tanks T 54. These loopholes operations receive the code name of “offensive Houari Boumédiène”, then, the following year, of “offensive Grand the Maghreb”.
In 1980, in Ras will el-Khanfra then in Djebel Ouarkziz, it inflicts heavy losses with the immense armor-plated columns Ohoud, Larak and Zellagha, which, come from north, try to take again the control of the the Western Sahara and to make safe it.
In March 1981, with Gueltat Zemmour, Sam6 d' Ayoub cut down C130, two F5 bombers and a helicopter.

Quotations

“I will make return a maximum of refugees here, with the Morocco, because I regard myself as person in charge of their Exil”
“Taking into account the vacuum which I leave behind me, the Algerians will have to imply itself directly in the recasting of what remains army of Polisario; but, believe me, they can them also with what leave it. ”
“My rallying is not a rendering. ”
“the Algerians had chosen it and we could nothing refuse to them: they gave us all, or almost.”
“In August 1983, when, for one month, I besieged the locality of Lemseied again, it is them which gave me the order to be withdrawn: they feared that Hassan II does not exert a right of continuation. Their radars of Tindouf and Béchar informed us when had Moroccan moved towards our columns. Sometimes, when they intercepted radio conversations between certain units of FAR, they transmitted the contents of it to us. Without them, we would have been plug and deaf.”
“I do not know what to answer you, but not, I do not regret anything. His life is not regretted. Today, like yesterday, I do what my conscience dictates to me. ”
“My return is a restarting. ”

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