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From sources close to the Polisario Front Leadership, a MINURSO telecommunication centre, near the Polisario Front headquarters of Rabouni (Algerian South-East, near Tindouf), has recently been devastated and its equipment stolen. The story goes back to June 2009, the MINURSO official, from the Algerian side, wants at any price to get rid of a telecom centre guard called Mahjub, but the Polisario Front multiplies the administrative harassments to postpone the replacement of the latter. In fact, it was clear that the so-called Mahjub is not a simple guard, but an agent of the Polisario Front intelligence, in charge of picking out all the UN forces movements and communications, and handing over reports to the Front leadership. After many unsuccessful attempts, the MINURSO official in the area called the said guard and fired him.
A few days later, the UN civil servant has been informed that the centre for which Mahjub was responsible has been devastated and all the equipment disappeared. Yet, this raises a serious problem as an UHF transmitter/receiver of high capacity has been stolen, which embarrasses even the Polisario Front leadership, uneasy to know this kind of “special” equipment somewhere in nature, especially given the proximity of the terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

Read more: Exclusive: a MINURSO telecom office near Rabouni, devastated by a Polisario guard.

According to sources close to the Polisario Front leadership, the Front has noticed a decrease in the subsidy traditionally granted by the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela to the Secretariat General of the guerrilla movement. In fact, since Hugo Chavez’s return to power in February 1999, the Polisario Front has regularly received the “revolutionary friendly subsidy” granted by the Venezuelan President, consisting of a cash aid (around US$ two million), as well as of military and transmission equipment. Yet, due to the financial crisis, Venezuela has decided this year to “delay” as possible the subsidy to the Polisario Front, and to classify its priorities in terms of revolutionary solidarity. It should be reminded that the Bolivian leader has already a lot to do with the other movement of the guerrilla that it supports, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (most commonly called F.A.R.C), known mainly for their tendency to Colombian politician kidnappings, women and deputies, if possible. The only two Marxist-Leninist-Guevara guerrilla movements in the world, the FARC and the Polisario Front, seem to adopt the same financing operating mode for their activities embodied in kidnappings. Just to remind, the Polisario Front has started its international career by Spanish fishermen kidnappings, then their massacre, by the end of the 70s.

Read more: The Venezuela hesitates between the FARC and the Polisario

He was probably expecting a kind of special reception committee, but certainly not to go out ribs broken. In fact, the journalist Mohamed, from the American channel in Arabic El Hourra, learnt on his own expenses that one should not go against the “revolutionary meetings” organized by the Polisario Front.
Indeed, the latter succeeded in mobilizing some 500 extreme left wing activists in Grenada, in order to organize an anti-demonstration to the force demonstration of Moroccans, who were over 1100,0 crowding to celebrate the first Morocco- European Union summit held this weekend. Weary, Ould Lemine Khetari has been the first victim of the Polisario gathering, as he has been be ill-treated when he dared asking the question that makes angry: how many people are here today to manifest?
A political representative of the Polisario Front, arriving from the Canary Islands, answered him that over “ten thousand comrades” have joined the demonstration. The journalist answered that many hundreds would be closer to the reality, but as a clarification, he received a hook from the political representative. Then, many comrades used violence against him, accusing him of “undermining” their “fight”, and of being paid by the “American imperialism”.

Read more: Urgent: a journalist from Al Hourra Channel ill-treated during the Polisario meeting in Grenada

Following some reliable information reaching the « Polisario confidentiel », Algeria would have handed over a memo to the MINURSO and the UN Refugee Agency requesting that their staff working in the Tindouf camps « won’t move alone anymore, but in groups », stating that this measure concerns « more particularly women alone who have to move during the night ». Without clearly referring to the rape issue and the violence used against Rahmouna Dahousse, Algeria, through the voice of the official in charge of relations with the MINURSO and its permanent representative to the United Nations, has recognized that the security of the international officials in Tindouf is no more certain. Those “recommendations” of the Algerian authorities fit with the concern of trying to contain the increasing criminality inside the camps and to reduce the risk of damaging their reputation in case another international official came to be victim of violence. Making an anonymous declaration, an official from the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives way to his anger: “It is not up to the Ministry to do the work requested from the army, we deal with diplomacy not with security”.

Read more: Following the scandal of the UN Refugee Agency in Tindouf: Algiers wants to reinforce security.