“My subjects are like rats in a basket.”

— Moulay Ismail

Morocco poll - choice or façade?, BBC News, 1 September 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6970555.stm,

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second ruler of the Moroccan Alaouite dynasty 1646–1727

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