{"id":119508,"date":"2020-11-13T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahara-occidental.net\/2020\/11\/the-case-for-redirecting-us-aid-for-the-polisario-run-camps-in-algeria-part-iii-2\/"},"modified":"2020-11-13T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:08:00","slug":"the-case-for-redirecting-us-aid-for-the-polisario-run-camps-in-algeria-part-iii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/13\/the-case-for-redirecting-us-aid-for-the-polisario-run-camps-in-algeria-part-iii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The case for redirecting US aid for the Polisario-run camps in Algeria (Part III)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A splinter group of AQIM confirms that it is holding the three aid workers kidnapped on Oct. 23 near the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria. The group, linked by some to al Sahraoui, calls itself “Unity Movement for Jihad in West Africa.”xxv <\/div>\n
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Nov. 30, 2011 <\/div>\n
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The US House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism & Intelligence hears testimony that AQIM is expanding its ties in the Sahel with the Polisario, as well as militant Nigerian group Boko Haram and Somalia-based al-Shabaab.xxvi <\/div>\n
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Nov. 28, 2011 <\/div>\n
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UK Foreign Secretary William Hague says AQIM\u2019s expanding terrorist ties to other militant groups in the Sahel could have a \u201cprofoundly destabilizing\u201d effect on a region already rocked by the Arab Spring.xxvii <\/div>\n
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Nov. 24, 2011 <\/div>\n
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AQIM kidnaps two French tourists from their hotel at night in eastern Mali, claiming they are spies. Officials later report that the abductions were coordinated with the Polisario.xxviii <\/div>\n
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Nov. 7, 2011 <\/div>\n
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Algerian Chief of Staff General Qaid Saleh reportedly reprimands Polisario chief Mohammed Abdul Aziz for allowing an al-Qaeda presence inside the Polisario-controlled camps in Tindouf.xxix <\/div>\n
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Nov. 6, 2011 <\/div>\n
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Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin cites alarm at AQIM kidnappings in the Polisario camps. \u201cThis is a catastrophe waiting to happen. The need to empty the camps, deprive AQIM of a supply of victims and accomplices, and restore order has never been greater.\u201dxxx <\/div>\n
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Oct. 26, 2011 <\/div>\n
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Spanish daily El Pais reports on the Tindouf abductions, noting that, \u201cto cross the checkpoints of the Algerian army and Polisario, kidnappers benefited from support of Polisario\u2019s military.\u201dxxxi <\/div>\n
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Oct. 25, 2011 <\/div>\n
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Spain requests a UN security mission to the Polisario-run camps. \u201cWe\u2019ve asked the UN to send a mission to Algeria to assess the security situation in the camps of Tindouf\u201d \u2013 Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez. xxxii <\/div>\n
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Oct. 23, 2011 <\/div>\n
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An AQIM splinter group kidnaps three Western aid workers from the Polisario-run camps in Algeria, reportedly with Polisario-insider help. \u201cUnarmed AQIM militants entered the Sahrawi refugee camp in Tindouf, western Algeria, where sympathizers of the Polisario Front gave them weapons and helped them seek out the hostages.\u201dxxxiii <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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