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Spain-Western Sahara Separatists: The break Up?

Khalid Ibrahim Khaled
The relationships between Spain and the Western Sahara Separatist Group Polisario leadership have seriously deteriorated and are at their lowest since the creation of the Western Sahara pro-independence movement.
The kidnapping of three Western aid workers in October 2011 in the camp of Hassi Rabouni, few hundred meters away from the Headquarters of the Polisario, was the last straw.

 

The Spanish intelligence services obtained information from sources in the Tindouf camps and in Northern Mali stating that the 15 million euro ransom perceived on July 18 for the liberation of the  three western hostages (two Spaniards and an Italian) was shared between the Polisario and MUJOA (Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa).
Madrid was also informed by its secret services that fighters of Al Qaïda and executives of the Polisario front were plotting a new kidnapping operation in the Algerian southwest.
According to the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Madrid received reliable information on an imminent kidnapping of Spanish and western volunteers in the camps of Tindouf.
The information was cross-checked by Spanish and foreign intelligence services, the Foreign Minister said. It is for this reason, he explained, that the Spanish government proceeded on Saturday at dawn to the evacuation of 12 humanitarian workers from the zone. Only one Spanish volunteer chose to remain in the camps, exempting the government from any responsibility regarding his safety.
A Sahrawi Sheikh (O.S.M), member of the influential Rguibate tribe, confirmed to us over the phone that fighters of the MUJAO, an Al Qaeda affiliate present in Northern Mali, would be tempted to carry out, in collusion with elements of the Polisario, another kidnapping operation.
According to the same source, the kidnappers know that the Algerian army and the Algerian military intelligence services would probably close their eyes to any kidnappings of western humanitarian workers, for the simple reason that they do not want to have these volunteers on their territory.
The Algerians suspect the humanitarian workers of spying for foreign intelligence services. The Polisario leaders are now sure that they can no longer rely on Spanish officials, be they from the left or from the right.
 

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Morcelli
-4 #1 RE: Spain-Western Sahara Separatists: The break Up?Morcelli 2012-08-05 09:49
This article is simple mediocre propaganda that will not help the Moroccan sacred cause: its territorial integrity.

The Polisario are not as dumb as you were led to believe. They made the international community force Morocco to sit across the table from them to negotiate the non negotiable.
They made the UN recognize them as "the other" party in the conflict, and we all know that the real party in the conflict is Algeria.
In order for them to jeopardize everything they have accomplished so far for few million dollars does not make any sense whatsoever.
I see it otherwise, Spain is in deep hole economically and the last thing they want to worry about is the Sahara, They are smartly feeding the Moroccans their usual lies so they can score some cheap investment in Morocco. As a matter of fact the King of Morocco in his last speech mentioned the other king Juan Carlos and how loving the relationship between the 2 kingdoms, when we know that is not true, Spaniards have been the most racists toward Moroccans than any other European country. They'll tell the Algerians something and the Moroccans something totally different. When was the last time you heard the king mentioned Spain in his speech, other then the fiasco of the leila island?
Please don't celebrate the end of honeymoon between the thugs made in Algeria and Spain.
The honeymoon will last for ever because Spain is smart to keep the Sahara issue alive to draw the wedge between Morocco and Algeria any time Morocco starts bugging them about Sebta and mellilia.
And Frankly if I were Spain I would do It's called National Security. Why give freebies to Morocco an Arab Muslim country?
If Morocco was an Christian country, that would be a different story, Spain perhaps would have different view. Remember that Islam ruled Spain for a while and that is not something Christian Spaniards like to remember.

lastly pulling a dozen worker or so is not the end of the Polisario, and of course I totally disagree with the fact that Algeria does not want the aid workers in Tindouf, The Algerians use them for their propaganda, they feed them , house them and treat them as a valuable foreign guests. I don't know when you came up with the story that Algeria does not want the air workers.

I wish the problem was as simple as you phrase it "The Polisario leaders are now sure that they can no longer rely on Spanish officials, be they from the left or from the right."

Sadly it is more complicated than that. For sure Morocco will tackle Sebta and Mellilia as soon as the Sahara conflict ends, and if you think that Spain will make it easy for Morocco to do that, then I envy Mr Brahim for his naivety.
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Morrocans slaughter
-7 #2 ugly MorrocansMorrocans slaughter 2012-08-06 03:55
dump and cowards as the usual I hope that the Polisario break the peace so I can get some Moroccans to build for me and cook.In free time I can use them to entertainment as some of the Polisario fighters did with them,
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The Moroccan
+1 #3 RE: Spain-Western Sahara Separatists: The break Up?The Moroccan 2012-08-06 22:40
Get a life people we the moroccans have a better life than you leave us alone go read about somebody else.and you morcillu I think you're forgetting that we live in our sahara it's the other side that lives behind a wall so I don't think we've lost anything,we can talk chat with them but at the end we're still there with over 5 million real moroccans baby
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Bouka
+1 #4 true thatBouka 2012-08-09 23:34
Spain is sending two crystal clear messages, first, that it is their solid belief that Tindouf and the whole Sahel is becoming a safe heaven for terrorists, second, that the lives of their humanitarian workers is too valuable to risk it for the sake of sahraouis.

As for the details on intelligence services, over the years I learned that things are rarely what they appear to be, who would have guessed that the Algerian intelligence was behind the capture and slaughter of Gaddafi? not me...
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