Some well informed sources in Tindouf camps have declared to Polisario-confidentiel that Mohamed Abdelaziz has lately made a deep reshuffle in the security device in Rabouni camp.
This upheaval was provoked by the revolt of many young people who have led many protesting actions and open sit-in in Tindouf camps, particularly in Rabouni. But, it is another operation which has made the Polisario chief very furious. The writing with white paint of the word “clear off”, on the pavement leading to the Polisario HQ, has infuriated him according to the same sources. Some executives in charge of security in Rabouni camp have been replaced and sent to other posts of control. The revolt of the young Sahrawis in Tindouf, prevailing since many weeks already, was aggravated by the debated election of Mohamed Abdelaziz at the head of the Polisario.

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Mali confronted in its own territory to the terrorist groups of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi), controled by the Algerian jihadists, takes it out on the Polisario. Taking into consideration the balance of forces, Bamako, instead of entering directly in confrontation with Algeria hosting the HQ of the Sahrawi movement for independence, has preferred to set its heart on the Polisario leadership. The Malian authorities accuse openly the Polisario Sahrawis of using these last time and in a recurrent manner, the Malian territory to settle their accounts with AQMI men and drug traffickers who are very active in the Sahel band, namely in the North of Mali, difficult to be controlled by the local army. The Algerian security services who did not admit the downs undergone following the kidnapping on their own territory, of two Spanish and one Italian humanitarian workers, on the last 23rd October in the highly controlled camp of Hassi Rabouni, near Tindouf, brought up some Polisario elements to try to release the three hostages by entering them in the Malian territory.
Following this affair, the most important leaders of the Algerian army start falling, with the dismissal,  the beginning of this week, of General Abdelkader Kherfi, alias Ahmed, who was replaced by General Athmane Tartag, alias Bachir, at the head of the Interior Security Department (DSI). The latter was working in the dreadful Security and Intelligence Department (DRS), which is the real question master in the Algerian powerful circles.

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Some elements from the Polisario front increase these last times repeated  and unexplained intrusions in the Malian and Mauritanian territory. After the infiltration, in mid December, of a Polisario armed militia in the North of Mali, where it has killed a Malian and kidnapped some others, the Malian authorities have just announced the forced returning back of eight Sahrawis from the polisario. The latter who came from Niger tried to get into Mali which authorities suspect them of wanting to do some propaganda for the benefit of their separatist movement. The Malian authorities have become very suspicious as regard the elements coming from Tindouf Sahrawi camps. Their connection with the Aqmi terrorist groups in the Sahel has increased Bamako’s suspicions. These feelings of suspicion have been increased with the recent intrusion of other armed Sahrawis in the region of Tombouctou (North of mali), where they have killed the called Mohamed yeyia Ould Hamed, and captured at least three other Malian people whom they have taken to Tindouf camps.

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Completely disorientated, the Polisario leaders make the most of their opportunities. Before the opening of the Polisario congress on Thursday in Tifariti, the President of the Sahrawi Parliament, Khatri Eddouh announced the arrest by the Sahrawi security services, of a group of persons who would be involved in the kidnapping of the three European aid workers in the end of October, in the West of Algeria. Such a revelation can be but a joke to improve the Polisario’s reputation tarnished these last months, with many doubtful affairs. Contacted by the “Polisario-confidentiel”, a specialist of the security and terrorism issues, explained to us that after the kidnapping in Tindouf, the Polisario leadership has accused Aqmi fighters of being responsible of this kidnapping. But after having noticed that Aqmi did not claim its responsibility of this kidnapping, the leaders of the movement for independence look at present to find foreign scapegoats so as to clear the Polisario front and to make some citizens of neighbour Sahel countries responsible of these acts. Moreover, considering the importance of this capture, wonders the same specialist, why the Sahrawi official did not specify neither the number of arrested persons nor the date and place of these arrests, nor even the identity or the nationality of the arrested persons. Eddouh merely said that the suspected persons “were acting on behalf of a criminal organization, unknown till now”, allusion made to an Aqmi dissident group, named “the movement for uniqueness and jihad in the West of Africa”.

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