As the world watches in shock the unveiling of close ties between the terrorist militias of the Polisario and the repressive apparatus of Bashar Al-Assad’s now-defunct regime, a chilling truth emerges: the Polisario, manipulated by Algeria and Iran, played a major role in the chaos in Syria.
According to an explosive investigation published by The Washington Post, hundreds of Polisario fighters, armed and trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, were arrested by the new Syrian authorities. Their mission: to take part in the repression of the Syrian people and to serve the interests of the Algeria-Iran axis, which aims to turn the Maghreb into a theater of regional instability.
Even more grave, a general of the Algerian army and over 500 Algerian soldiers and Polisario militiamen were captured—compelling proof of the direct involvement of the Algerian regime in this criminal enterprise. These facts confirm what Japan had already acknowledged in 2013 and 2014: the Polisario is a group closely linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The objective is clear: to transform the Saharan and Sahelian regions into a grey zone beyond control, where arms, drugs, foreign currency, and human trafficking thrive under the guise of a deceptive “liberation” cause. In reality, it is a vast transnational terrorist cartel, diplomatically backed by Algiers and militarily supported by Tehran, with tentacles stretching to Shiite militias in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and extremist groups in Iraq.
American sources have revealed that the Polisario serves as Iran’s Trojan horse in North Africa, just like the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon. In exchange for their allegiance, Polisario leaders enjoy a lavish lifestyle: shady investments in the Caribbean, colossal fortunes fed by Algerian petrodollars and the trafficking of Captagon, the infamous war drug produced in Syrian factories.
Even worse, according to revelations by Fahed al-Masri, head of the National Salvation Front in Syria, 200 Polisario members were deployed in southern Syria, just a few kilometers from the Golan Heights, under the command of Iranian officers. They were trained in the same camps as Afghan and Iraqi Shiite militias, pointing to a global strategy of exporting terror.
Today, the mask is off. The world is beginning to realize that the Polisario, this so-called “independence movement,” is nothing more than a proxy of regional terrorism, used by Algiers to sabotage African unity and undermine Morocco’s peace efforts.
Faced with this threat, calls to designate the Polisario as a terrorist organization are multiplying. In the United States, Congress—particularly under the initiative of Congressman Joe Wilson—is urging the administration to take this decisive step. Europe, too, must open its eyes and stop turning a blind eye to this mafia-like group and its Algerian sponsors.
The time for half-measures is over. The Polisario is a global threat—to regional security, to the peoples of the Sahel and Maghreb, and to the stability of the African continent. The international community must take responsibility and denounce this group for what it truly is: a terrorist organization embedded in the geopolitical underworld, sponsored by Algiers and manipulated by Tehran.
Abderrazzak Boussaid / Le7tv
