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It is an exceptional picture that we propose to our readers: Bouteflika and Carlos together again. This flashback allows us to learn a little bit more about the Sahara conflict.
This picture of December 23, 1975, shows the Algerian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika welcoming the terrorist of Venezuelan origin Ilich Ramirez Sánchez, alias “Carlos”.
The terrorist has landed in Algiers holding forty two hostages kidnapped in Vienna during the OPEC conference.
On these photographs, the Complicity between the two men is obvious.
According to the testimony of Hans-Joachim Klein, former Carlos’s deputy who was seriously wounded at the time of the kidnapping: “they installed  us in a state’s house, an immense villa, and were treated like kings… the chief of the Algerian secret service came to visit every day, sometimes accompanied by the chief of the police force of Algiers. And there, I started to reflect a little bit. The chief of Algiers police force knew that I was German, and he says to me once: “Hitler Was a good man, hein? ». There I looked at him and said to myself: “poor FLN… ”. Once we even ate with Bouteflika, who was at that time the Foreign Affairs Minister …”

Mohammed Abdelaziz, Secretary General of the Polisario Front also called “Mister 15%”, has secured his re-election scoring 85% of votes. However, 15% of the votes were not expressed in his favor, even if he was … the only candidate.
An investigation was immediately conducted trying to find out the enemies of the revolution who had the impertinence to allow the re-election of the Comrade Secretary General with such a low score.
With 85%, Mohammed Abdelaziz follows the steps of his mentors specially Abyssinian Mengistu Haile Mariam (former president of Ethiopia) who, in September 10, 1987, obtained exactly the same score. However, a small event occurred since, namely the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the abandonment of the scores known as “Soviet” at the time of elections of secretaries-general of Leninist- Marxist movements. This “detail” of the history, the Polisario Front seems not to have seized it, believing that Homeric scores reinforce the popularity of the Chief among the leading authorities and the political police chiefs.  Those nevertheless are confronted to a growing dilemma: how to manage this inescapable fall of the election score? In 2003, the brother Abdelaziz had at least the courtesy to be re-elected with 92% of voices. But with the  85%, we start approaching the level of Tchernenko, which does not predict any good.

Except last minute surprise, Mohammed Abdelaziz should be reelected for another four years as secretary general of the Polisario Front.
Last minute reversal however, Mohammed Abdelaziz requires a revision of the internal regulations of the front so he cannot hold a new mandate after this one. Did the very strong pressure exerted by Morocco allied with the emergence of dissonant voices pushed Abdelaziz to introduce this clause to the program of the of the Polisario congress? Obviously, the reason for this reversal seems to find its source in Algiers. As Polisario Confidential revealed it yesterday,

Redha Malek, former Algerian Prime Minister, and president of the Democratic National Alliance (liberal political party having had 0, 17% of the votes the last local elections in Algeria) lost his briefcase while making a speech at the Congress of the Polisario Front in Tifariti. Once he finished the speech, Mr. Malik returned to the small waiting room contiguous to the platform, and realized with stupor that his briefcase was not there anymore. The former Prime Minister was furious and insulted the security guards of the Polisario Front summoning them to find his invaluable luggage.