What is Ahmed Gaid Salah?
[[File:Ahmed gaid salah 2006.jpg|right|200px]] '''Ahmed Gaid Salah''' ({{lang-ar|أحمد قايد صالح}}; 13 January 1940 – 23 December 2019) was a senior leader in the [[Algerian People's National Army]]. In 2004, he was appointed by then-President [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]] to [[Chief of Staff of the People's National Army|chief of staff]] of the army. On 15 September 2013, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. Salah died at a military hospital in [[Algiers]] of a [[heart attack]] on 23 December 2019 at the age of 79.<ref>[http://www.aps.dz/algerie/99289-deces-du-general-du-corps-d-armee-ahmed-gaid-salah Décès du général du corps d'armée Ahmed Gaïd Salah]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ahmed Gaïd Salah hospitalisé, un proche annonce son décès |url=https://www.radiom.info/ahmed-gaid-salah-hospitalise-un-proche-annonce-son-deces/ |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=2019-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223095543/https://www.radiom.info/ahmed-gaid-salah-hospitalise-un-proche-annonce-son-deces/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.france24.com/en/20191223-algeria-s-armed-forces-chief-ahmed-gaid-salah-has-died Algeria’s powerful military chief Ahmed Gaid Salah has died]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:GAID Salah, Ahmed}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Generals]] [[Category:Algerian military people]] {{bio-stub}}