Polisario confidential

In 1993, the representative of the Polisario Front in the United States Mouloud Said has signed an unlimited contract with the lawyer Paul S. Reichler referring to lobbying among “members of the congress, their staff and members of US executive”.
The contract stipulates that all the lawyer’s expenses will be charged to the Polisario Front.  
Actually the matter is not that clear. It happens that the lawyer Paul Reichler is part of the  “Foley Hoag LLP” firm which signed  with Algeria an annual contract of almost 360.000 $ renewed in 2007 and which “Polisario Confidentiel” hands it exclusively to its readers.

A conference co-organized by the university of Agadir and “Tarika Derkaouia Ibrahimia Al Bassiria” took place in Laayoune on the 16th and 17th of June.
The purpose of the conference was to pay respect to Sidi Mohammed Bassiri, considered by the Polisario Front as the original mythical figure of the guerrilla and without whom the Polisario would not exist.
During two days most of the participants (Experts, historians and people having close thighs with Sidi Mohammed Bassiri) have proved that this historical figure of the Polisario Front is actually a Moroccan “freedom fighter” who asserted very early the indexation of the Western Sahara to Morocco.

The summer house of the Polisario Front Secretary General in Arucas (the Canaries) would have been “visited” last Sunday night.
Apparently, nothing was missing from the house and according to a close source to the leaders of the Polisario Front; the “night visitors” would have had the keys of the residence.
According to the same source, the Secretary General of the Polisario front was not happy when he learned that his villa “has been visited”, but refused to file a complaint, not wanting to appear as owner of the residence which is registered under the name of a company in town.
Always according to this same source, it is more than probable that this “visit” was a “warning” from people having worked for the SG of Polisario during several years in the maintenance of the house and who were fired without notice by his wife last October.

According to our sources, some Polisario Front “godfathers”did not welcome the nomination of Khadija Hamdi as Minister of culture
The impetuous wife of the secretary General of the Front seems to have a very personal perception of her new job. Last week, she fired several influential members of her office causing the anger of historical chiefs of the revolutionary movement.
The object of the discord would have been the disappearance of several archaeological objects stored in the building occupied by Mrs. Hamdi in Bir Lehlu. The same objects would have made a miraculous “reappearance” in Spain, where an influential member of the Front would have tried to sell them to a Spanish art dealer of Peruvian origin. This last, alerted by several press reports on degradations of prehistorical sites in the Sahara, would have alerted the local authorities who seized few flints as well as remedies of gravestones.
Having heard about the stones disappearance and their “reappearance” in Spain, Mrs. Hamdi would have refused to corroborate the version of the trafficker who affirmed having been charged to “give them to a museum”.

While the Polisario Front is trying hard to improve its image, it appears that there were close ties between the leaders of the Tindouf guerrilla and members of the separatist organization Basque ETA…
In “Notes & Studies”, the Research Center on contemporary criminal threats had published in 1988 a paper revealing that, according to the Spanish secret services, some Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or ETA (Basque for "Basque Homeland and Freedom"), members would have been trained in Algiers camps in 1975 and would have had contacts with members of the Polisario Front.
At that time and according to a source close to the Polisario Front leaders contacted by “Polisario- Confidential”, the current Secretary General of the Front Mohammed Abdelaziz would have build up a friendship with José Luis Ignacio Irruretagoyena, the ETA main expert in the making of bombs.
Iruretagoyena Lanz had spent a few years in Nicaragua and El Salvador in the Eighties and was actively tracked by the Spanish police task force.