Saad Hassar ( ar, سعد حصار – born 21 February 1953,

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) is a Moroccan politician. Between 2007 and 2012, he was Secretary of State for the Interior in the cabinet of

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, succeeding Fouad Ali El Himma. Saad Hassar studied at the

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of Rabat (''Lycée Descartes'') and at the

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of Paris. He is a nephew of Abdelkrim al-Khatib, co-founder of the National Popular Movement which later became the Justice and Development Party, and cousin of Moroccan Gendarmerie

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Hosni Benslimane.

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Government ministers of Morocco 1953 births Moroccan engineers Living people People from Salé Alumni of Lycée Descartes (Rabat) Paul Sabatier University alumni {{Morocco-politician-stub

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