General Ahmed Boutaleb (Arabic: أحمد بوطالب – born 1946 in Tahla, Taza province) is the Ex-Inspector of the Royal Moroccan Air Force.
[2][3][4] Ahmed Boutaleb joined the air force in 1964 as part of a new class of air force officers that were recruited after the 1963 sand war.
[1] Towards the end of Hassan II's reign, Boutaleb was appointed as the aide-de-camp of then crown prince Sidi Mohammed and was promoted sometime afterwards to the rank of Colonel Major then to his current position, replacing General Abdelaziz Alaoui M'rani.
[2] He had started his career in the military as a C-130 pilot and was trained in the United States.
[2] Ahmed Boutaleb is from the Beni Ourain (also known as Beni Warain), a Zenata Berber tribe of the region south of Taza.