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The plan in the combat of Anwal was suggestting the Reef resistance men to attack the spanish in the same time in all their sites; so it will make it difficult for the Spanish to help each other, and distributed a great number of his men in sites that make them able to hunt the escaping Spanish soldiers, the spanish army was eradicated including Silvester, and the Spanish asdmitted that they lost about 15000 soldiers and about 570 captive, and the Moroccans got more than 130 sites were under the Spanish control, about 100 guns , 129 cannons.

Prince Kattabi did not realise the fact of his win , and if he did continue to fortified Mlela he could win, but he stopped , he thought that the Spanish are real strong , He committed a big mistake by giving them the time to rearrange their lines , they collected about 60000 soldiers, so they make a counter attack in September1921 , so they got back some of their sites, that year the Spanish army was numbering about 150 000 fighters, however they could not control the whole region.

The Spanish attributed their defeat to the difficult nature of the counrty and the Jbalah regions(both regions charecterized by high mountains), and they ascribed it to the rotten officers and administration,that is what make the government of Madrid send an investigating committee to find out the thruth,the committee attributed the disaster to the great fault of making roads between the military bases,and they do ascribed it to making a great number of bases without concentrating on the supplies, their report admitted that the Moroccan did not have any choise but picking up the escaping soldiers weapons,and it does discover cases of guns sales between the hopeless Spanish soldiers and the Moroccans.

*Establishing a country: After the great victory that prince Kattabi made in Anwal, he became famous in the country region(el Reef), so he headed to establish a country;he invited the tribes of country region to make a congress to establish a political regime, they have made a constitution, and they established a general court known as the national association granted the will of Moroccan people, its first decision was the declaration of national independence, and declared the founding of a constitutional republic in september1931 ,the principle of the constitution of the Reef was the authority of people,and the constitution ordered the formation of ministeries,and mentioned that the governers are responsible infront of the president of the republic.

Prince Kattabi declared that the goals of his government were,disallow the French protection on the country region, the evacuation of the Spanish troops to all the territories they occupied, he declared that his government want good friendly relationships with all countries,and he declared that the Moroccan government has an intenion of the utlization of the European experience in the buliding of the growing state, and the usage of its fortunes,so he encouraged some of the mining companies to work in the Reef region that was the reason of some European capitalists,his Fighters turned into the new country s army, the Moroccan who were working in the Spanish army he entrusted them in various jobs, he rearranged the civil administration,and started to work on building the infrastructures and supplied ( electricity, telephone lines, split roads), and sent delegations into north african and Arab government to earn their support, and demanded from France,Bretain and the Pope of the Vatican to recognize his country and Aghadir its capital.

(Apolitical issue):

The situation of the Reef new country caused afear in Morocco s political life,which was the position of prince Kattabi from the throne, some thought that prince Kattabi was believing in Sultans authority*, what made the Alwey family** look at his country as a disunionism try, the proove that he did not have such intention he did not allow the Emmams in Friday prayers to speech in his name***.

*Sultans authority it’s a non central authority that every Sultan rule his region in a conferderal way. **The royal family of Morocco they are called Alweys because they say that their roots return to Ali bin Aba Talib the prophet s cousine. ***Beginning the Kottba of jomma(speech of Fridays prayer) in the name of the governer indicates the loyalty.

>>to be continued. Hadrubal Orfelli