Evacuation through the Alboran Sea, 2012

Evacuation through the Alboran Sea 2012:

This scenario is modified for employ the new planes and ships included now in the Data Base reflecting the composition and modernization of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces. But it's compulsory to do mention of the historical facts: After I wrote this scenario (February 2011) the theorically moderate islamist Justice and Development Party won the November 2011 polls, and his candidate Abdelilah Benkirane was appointed First Minister of Morocco. As consequence, now in Morocco the government is clearly islamist and the facts below narrated as scenario background are only fiction, but not is fiction the current islamist government of Morocco ...

I've some good friends in Ceuta and Melilla and also in Morocco. This scenario is inspired from and dedicated to them. I hope it will not scare them too much ...

Note: In this scenario, to avoid spoilers, it is better to play the Spanish/Blue side first a few times, and only after play the Moroccan-Islamist/Red side.

Spring 2012: As a last backslash to the 2011 turmoils in the North Africa and Middle East Muslim World, in Morocco the moderate laicist Government of National Unity of Abdelhadi Boucetta (With the decisive support of his intellectual and glamorous wife) replacing for less than a year the deposed King Mohammed VI (Exiled to the ONA-Managem luxury mining facilities in Equatorial Guinea), has been overthrowed by the Islamic extremists after a long and painful agony.

The new Moroccan islamist Government of the now named Muslim Brotherhood in the Islamic Maghreb, counts with the opposition of a important sector of the Moroccan people, basically the most literate and pro-Western sector. Preventing a possible unrest, remembering the internal public reaction to the ill-fated Moroccan invasion of the Spanish Perejil Island on 2002, the new Islamic government has fixed as national target for amagalmation of the public opinion the seizure of the North-African Spanish Automous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, a long-time Moroccan claim.

As both cities are very vulnerable without room for a possible in depth military defence, and the other new strategic targets and ambitions of the Spanish Government are now well known and the last years was retiring troops and police corps from both Ceuta and Melilla, there is a window of vulnerability the Islamic faction has well exploited.

With a Moroccan Police and Secret Service organized human waves of thousands of desesperate low-class Moroccan people jumping, breaking through, bending and for last tearing apart the divisory fence between both cities and Morocco, in face of the passivity of the Spanish security forces to avoid the loss of human lives (Action and reaction very similar to the Moroccan Green March occupation of the Spanish Sahara on November 1975, against a confuse Spanish government when Franco layed dying), the Moroccans had de facto occuppied both cities.

Facing a not-return case, the Spanish citizens are assembled by the authorities in the cities ports, waiting for maritime evacuation (Only Melilla counts with a very small airport).

Remembering the success of the current Somalia pirates, and the success of the traditional historical activity of the Barbary Coast pirates (Only finished with the French conquest in North Africa in the XIX Century, after the previous famous actions of the USN and USMC), and for enforce more the moral of the Moroccan People, the Islamic government has decided to prevent the evacuation and the loss of richess and qualified manpower. In the tradition of their ancestors the Barbary pirates, they want capture them for ransom, or if not destroy and sunk the merchant ships carring them, to shown the weakness of the Spanish government and his incapatility to protect his own nationals.

In Spain, after the 2012 polls, the unstable socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his long-time Defence Minister Carmen Chacon, has had to suffer the pressure of the peripherical nationalistic parties of his coalition of government, and to lend to his desires.

After the resignation of General Felix Sanz Roldan as head of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia and his replacement by a puppet civilian, nothing can be opposed to the nationalistic parties desires.

As their first demand is the recuperation of the old territories of the Kingdom of Aragon, most of the surface forces of the Spanish Navy and a great number of his air assets are deployed in forward bases in the Balearic Islands and in the Central Mediterranean.

As a result of it, facing the worst-case possible scenario, only limited forces are available for escorting the evacuation of Spanish refugees from Ceuta and Melilla.

Generic unnamed places are:

ZMa Ben Guerir (The reactivated base for the Moroccan F-16. An old SAC base and old Space Shuttle Transoceanic Abort Landing Site).

ZLa Ibn Batoutta-Tangier Airport.

ZNb Casablanca City and Naval Base.

ZIa Al Massira-Agadir Airport.

ZHa Inezgane-Agadir Airport.

ZGa Cherif Al Idrissi-Al Hoceima Airport.

ZFa Sania Ramel-Tetouan Airport.

ZEa Ben Slimane Airport.

ZDa Mohammed V-Casablanca Airport.

ZCa Anfa-Casablanca Airport.

ZBa Moulay Ali Cherif-Errachidia Airport.

ZAa Mogador-Essaouira Airport.

YZa Saiss-Fes Airport.

YYa Ifrane Airport.

YXa Marrakech-Menara Airport.

YWa Al Aroui-Nador International Airport.

YVa Ouarzazate Airport.

YUa Angads-Oujda Airport.

YTa Sidi Ifni Airport.

AVb Spanish Autonomous City of Ceuta and Port.

AUb Spanish Autonomous City of Melilla and Port.

AWa Melilla Airport.

AXb Alboran Island and Military Garrison.

AZa Son San Juan-Palma de Mallorca Airport

BAa Manises-Valencia Airport.

AYb Malaga Port and City.

BBa Mahon Airport.

BCn Mahon Port and City.

BDa Matacan-Salamanca Air Base and Airport.

BEa Villanubla-Valladolid Air Base and Airport.

BFa Alcantarilla Air Base.

BHa San Javier-Murcia Air Base and Airport.

BIa Lavacolla-Santiago de Compostela Airport.

BJa El Prat-Barcelona Airport.

BKa Bilbao Airport.

Enrique Mas, February 2011

P.D.: resolved the unspected issue of both transport task forces running aground in Malaga Bay. Updated 27 February 2011 10:43

Updated: July 1, 2012, to include the new Moroccan ship and planes now included in the Data Base, specially the Mirage F1EM VI with MICA AAMs.