In an article published in the columns of the conservative daily ”The Washington Times”, a former US Attorney General for the state of Arizona, Mark Brnovich, calls on the authorities of his country and, incidentally, the world powers, to also include Algeria on the State Department’s list of countries supporting terrorism for its military and financial assistance to the Polisario.
The charges are heavy. After recalling “World powers are about to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism in view of the atrocities it committed during the invasion of Ukraine. As a result, Russia will join a list of other countries such as Iran, North Korea and Syria, all of which are on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism,” and in the same vein added, “However, it is not only Russia that should be added to this list, but also Algeria, which should be held accountable for its support of the Polisario Front.
For decades, Algeria, with the help of Iran, has provided military and material support to the Polisario Front, a terrorist organisation in Western Sahara, which Algeria uses to destabilise neighbouring Morocco.
Marc Brnovich, who is well informed on all trafficking, points out that, while “claiming to seek sovereignty over Western Sahara, the Polisario Front has established a corridor for arms trafficking and other illicit activities (drugs and especially human beings), 72,000 Sahrawi women and girls are forced into prostitution, domestic slavery or forced marriages) which the Polisario, with Algerian complicity, engages in in the Sahel strip, while establishing links with various terrorist organisations (Hezbollah armed by Iran and AQIM. ) targeting the Saharawi people. It also foments corruption. A report by the European Anti-Fraud Office notes that between 2004 and 2007, the Polisario Front stole and diverted international aid intended for Sahrawi refugees.
Commentary.
The multiple condemnations, denunciations and warnings that have come from the various UN institutions, NGOs, the European Parliament, Members of Parliament and Senators, and also from the US Secretary of State, the latest of which, commented on here, is from the former US Attorney General for the State of Arizona, Mark Brnovich, following the tribune of the former French ambassador to Algiers, Xavier Driencourt, all indicate that the international community is deeply concerned about the repeated violations of human rights against the Algerian and Saharawi populations (notably the Mozabites and Kabyles mentioned in the UPR report) and about the hateful and warlike bellicosity expressed through armed and violent terrorist actions carried out by the Polisario militias in the Moroccan Sahara against the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces
Former prosecutor Mark Brnovich’s call to list ‘Algeria’, also a narco-state, alongside the rogue states (Iran, North Korea and Syria) that support terrorism, highlights the pathetic if not pathological double standards of ‘Algeria’.
The junta’s soothing speeches on the need to resolve conflicts between countries or between different political factions or cultural minorities within a given country through political approaches (Mali, Syria, Iraq, Libya, etc.) are slyly accompanied by political manipulation and support for violent armed terrorist actions when it is a question of the junta’s own political and financial interests.
In conflicts that concern it directly (decolonisation of Kabylia and internal Algerian political dissent, Hirak and others…) or opportunistically in an attempt to establish its regional power (Morocco/Polisario), this ‘Algeria’ does not hesitate to manipulate terrorist violence and multiform repression, ignoring political solutions.
Terrorism is a cultural fact inherent to “Algeria”. Human resources, training, finance and armament. The first Islamist maquis were initiated by Algerian soldiers, the case of Captain Bouali or international terrorism, the case of Carlos, wanted in the world but lodged in… Algiers, dining without the knowledge of French diplomats, a few tables away from them.
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