When the French magazine "Jeune Afrique" published a news item on April 22nd, titled "Polisario leader Brahim Ghali hospitalized in Spain in critical condition" this news constituted a major "earthquake" among the "General Directorate of Documents and External Security", which is considered the Algerian intelligence service.
The shock will increase when it is known that the French magazine obtained information about the entry of Ghali to Spain through Moroccan intelligence, which made Major General Noureddine Mokri, Director General of Documents and External Security, (Foreign Intelligence) in front of the crater of the volcano, the commander of the Algerian army, Lieutenant General Chengriha, who He immediately ordered a comprehensive investigation within the foreign intelligence service, to find out the "spy" who had leaked the plan to transfer Brahim Ghali to Spain.
With the intensification of pressure on Spain from the Moroccan side in the "Ghali case", Madrid was, in turn, pressuring Algeria to find out who had "leaked" information on the fraudulent identity of the leader of the separatist front to Moroccan intelligence and put Pedro Sanchez's government in a "very embarrassing" position in front of the European Union.
According to data obtained by Assahifa English, from informed sources, a wide investigation was launched within the Algerian foreign intelligence service, including the most important officers of this apparatus, as the most important persons involved in foreign operations began to be heard one by one on April 23, that is, one day after the news was leaked.
48 hours later, the circle of trustees was narrowed within the most important Algerian intelligence apparatus, and information exchanged within a very narrow circle "for fear of being leaked", as there was direct coordination with Chief of Staff Said Chengriha, who throughout the week that followed this "intelligence failure" was tense and angry in all his contacts with Major General Noureddine Mokri, Director General of Documents and External Security.
The search and investigation included not only foreign intelligence officers, but also the circle surrounding the Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and some ministers who were aware of some details of the transfer of the leader of the Polisario Front to Spain, among them Ammar Belhimer, Minister of Communication and Official Spokesman for the Algerian government. , Who was previously involved in many cases and was considered an "easy catch" to reveal "sensitive information" to an outside party.
According to Assahifa sources, all contacts and meetings of Ammar Belhimer have been reviewed over the past three months, and he was also interrogated in the "case of leaking Ghali data," especially since the Minister of Communication and the official spokesman for the Algerian government had previously been involved in a scandal concerning an affair with a woman called "Hind." She is a former wife of the Turkish Consul General in the capital, Algiers, according to Maghreb-intelligence, a website close to French intelligence.
According to the same sources, Belhimer had a "love" relationship with the ex-wife of the Turkish consul general in Algeria, as the data published by the French website revealed that this woman is considered active in the party of Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan, and is close to the Turkish intelligence service, and her role aims to expand the influence of the Turkish lobby in Algeria, and for this purpose, she placed Ammar Belhimer, within her narrow circle to achieve this goal.
The same sources indicated that Hind, in order to achieve her goal, had an affair with the Algerian minister, which enabled her to collect a lot of sensitive data that Belhimer leaked to her in special meetings including "all the detailed information that is being circulated in the El Mouradia Palace," especially that since Belhimer gets With much confidence on the part of the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Therefore, the intelligence officers investigated Belhimer as well as others in the case of the leakage of "Gali data."
A state of chaos reigns inside the Algerian foreign intelligence, after the failure to transfer the leader of the Polisario Front to Spain "secretly" and the speed of his detection by Moroccan intelligence, which makes the head of the apparatus, Major General Noureddine Mokri, threatened to be dismissed, knowing that he was appointed in last January, succeeding his predecessor, Youssef Bouzette, who was dismissed by Algerian President Abdel-Majid Tebboune, for his great failure to manage sensitive files, the most prominent and most dangerous of which are the situation in neighboring Libya, and their repercussions on Algerian security, and his failure to collect sufficient data regarding what has become called the "Guergurat file", which was as a “gift” to Morocco, which expelled the Polisario Front’s members from the border crossing, canceled the buffer zone, and surrounded it with a military security belt, so that the intelligence measure of the file became a “disaster” that precipitated the anger of Chief of Staff Said Chengriha, who gave the green light to President Abdel Majid Tebboune to dismiss him.
This comes, given that Youssef Bouzait, who was dismissed and replaced by Major General Noureddine Mokri, was in turn appointed by the Algerian President, Abdel Majid Tebboune, in April of last year (2020) to succeed Colonel Kamal El-Din Rumaili, for considerations related to "loyalty inside a sensitive apparatus, it seizes sensitive files for all the state’s men and is considered a powerful arm of the Algerian regime, which is run by the army generals led by Said Chengriha.
With all the chaos experienced by the Algerian foreign intelligence, and the investigations that have been opened in this regard to discover the extent of its penetration from the inside, the Ambassador, Director General of Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad, Fouad Yazoug, came out in an official statement, to confirm by saying: "Do not be surprised. As you know, Moroccan devices are among the most efficient, "indicating that more data will be disclosed in a timely manner.
He added that the opening of an investigation "may reveal many surprises, especially the complicity and intervention of four generals from a Maghreb country." In reference to Algeria, which indicates Rabat’s willingness to disclose more sensitive intelligence information in the “Ghali file” if its demands for his trial in Spain are not addressed. The disclosure of any new information may lead to further exposing the chaos in which the Algerian intelligence services are still searching about the "Moroccan spy "inside its device.