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For many weeks, some discrete negotiations between some members of the Front Polisario leadership have taken place in the Canary Islands in order to determine the feasibility of leadership substitution within the Guerilla movement. Meeting in a smart villa of Lanzarote, many “historical” Front leaders, within an unseen alliance with the new faces of the movement, tempt to replace the ageing leader, considering that he is no longer “representative” of the current movement and that his ideas are “outdated”. Moreover, the fact that Mohammed Abdelaziz has been trying for almost one year to make his spouse Khadija Hamdi as a potential heir has tensed up a number of the Front officials, who see in this an affront of the “legitimate” successors. In fact, the heart of the problem will be in terms of the management of the relationship with Algiers, the pressures of the latter are becoming more and more hard to bear within a global context where the Moroccan autonomy proposal wins more and more support within the international community and where a Spanish or French about-turn is becoming less and less probable.

If some doubts continue to exist in some minds, this exclusive image will sweep them away: yes, Aminatou Haïdar, presented by some media as the “passionate” of the Polisario Front, is in fact an agent of the Algerian authority. If it was not the case, how to explain then the fact that she accepts to take a photo with the Algerian Ambassador in Washington Abdallah Baali, both of them draped with the Algerian flag. This picture also clarifies a number of grey areas relating to the moving and lifestyle of Mrs. Haïdar, who is fully assumed by the Algerian authority. Phoned by the “Polisario Confidentiel”, a source close to the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains: “money is not important, provided that media tricks should be planned to embarrass Moroccans and continue to divert the Algerian public opinion’s attention from the real issues...”. The fact that Aminatou Haïdar is so close to Abdallah Baali also reveals the position of the Algerian Ambassador in Washington within the plan set up to promote the Polisario Front abroad. In fact, as the « Polisario Confidentiel » has revealed it, Abdallah Baali directly manages the Sahara issue in the United States, assisted by the lobbying cabinet “Foley Hoag”, which has supervised Aminatou Haïdar during her moving in the American capital and has organized US press interviews for her.

The fact of forbidding the entry to the Moroccan territory to Aminatou Haider yesterday after her refusal to fill in the procedures, is in reality a cover-up operation decided by the Algerian authorities after that many specialized medias, including the American Security website Sahel Intelligence, have disclosed the smuggling of Swiss solar panels which were to be transported to Tindouf camps. In this big problem would be involved many Algerian officials, as well as the Sahrawi Red Cross. In fact, Aminatou Haïdar, a former Moroccan civil servant reconverted in the Algerian diplomacy, had received, before her transport to Morocco, phone instructions from a non-identified interlocutor asking her to “not to fill in the procedures during her entry to Morocco”. Two journalists would have thus been designated to accompany her and film the programmed scene. But Moroccan authorities have been very careful and advised by an international law jurist, have decided to keep her in the international zone, until the conditions of her entry to the territory are met, i.e. until that the traveler accepts to tell her identity and nationality.

According to reliable sources close to the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, phoned by the « Polisario Confidentiel » some negotiations are on going in order to restart Manhasset negotiations, after nearly one year of rare negotiations between the negotiators of Morocco and the Polisario Front, who have been obliged to satisfy themselves with “informal talks” in Austria in the middle of summer 2009. It would seem that the Algerian party, which still affirms not being an “involved party”, had decided to give authorization to the Polisario Front to restart negotiations, after that some of its members had threatened to end the negotiations due to some internal tensions concerning the step to be followed. According to the same source, the Guerilla movement is on the crossroad: it can either free itself, even modestly, from the psychological guardianship of Algeria and decide to give guaranties during the next negotiations with Rabat, or continue on the referendum path, which will be in any way rejected by Morocco. In front of this dilemma, some signals show that the edifice has started to crack and that some voices are raised within the Polisario Front leadership in order to impose themselves on Algiers and to negotiate...as there is still time for that.