What is Chadli Bendjedid?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Chadli Bendjedid<br/> الشاذلي بن جديد | image = Chadli.jpg | order = [[List of heads of state of Algeria|3rd]] [[President of Algeria]] | term_start = 9 February 1979 | term_end = 11 January 1992 | primeminister = [[Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani]]<br />[[Abdelhamid Brahimi]]<br />[[Kasdi Merbah]]<br />[[Mouloud Hamrouche]]<br />[[Sid Ahmed Ghozali]] | predecessor = [[Rabah Bitat]] {{small|(Interim)}} | successor = [[Abdelmalek Benhabyles]] {{small|(Acting)}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|4|14|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bouteldja]], [[French Algeria|Algeria]] | death_date = {{dda|2012|10|6|1929|4|14|df=y}} | death_place = [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]] | spouse = Halima Ben Aissa | children = 4 | profession = Soldier | party = [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|FLN]] <!--Military service--> |nickname = |allegiance = [[Algeria]] |branch = [[Armée de Libération Nationale|ALN]]<br>[[People's National Army|PNP]] |serviceyears = 1954–1962 (ALN)<br>1962–1979 (PNP) |rank = [[Colonel]] |unit = |commands = |battles = [[Algerian War]] |awards = }} '''Chadli Bendjedid''' ({{lang-ar|الشاذلي بن جديد}}{{lrm}}; [[Arabic transcription|ALA-LC]]: ''ash-Shādhilī bin Jadīd''; 14 April 1929 – 6 October 2012) was the [[List of presidents of Algeria#Presidents|third]] [[President of Algeria]] from 9 February 1979 to 11 January 1992. Bendjedid was hospitalized in [[Paris]] in January 2012 for [[cancer]] treatment and returned to hospital again in May and October 2012.<ref name=alaran61012>{{cite news|title=Former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid dies|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/06/242208.html|access-date=6 October 2012|newspaper=Al Arabiya|date=6 October 2012|agency=AFP|location=Algiers}}</ref> He died of cancer on 6 October 2012 in Paris.<ref name=bbcdeath>{{cite news|title=Algeria ex-president Chadli Bendjedid dies|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19859499|a