The head of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sanchez, is due to pay an official visit to Morocco on December 17, 2020, against a backdrop of renewed tension between the Shereefian Kingdom and the Polisario Front, in connection with the Moroccan military maneuvers around the Geurgarate sector , the border locality located in the extreme southwest of Western Sahara, under Moroccan control, raising fears of a resumption of hostilities between the two protagonists of this conflict.
BACK TO THE HIDDEN FACE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE TWO MONARCHIES BASED ON THE REVELATIONS OF A FORMER SPANISH SECRET AGENT.
Money flowed to mosques in Spain from the Gulf petromonarchies, via pilgrims.
Between Morocco and Europe, cooperation is priced
The frogging of Moroccan services in Spain, a taboo subject for Spanish politicians.
The major concern of Moroccan services in Spain: supporters of the Polisario and the Rif
Between Morocco and Europe, cooperation is priced.
“Cooperation is priced between Morocco and Europe in the field of illegal immigration and drug trafficking in that the Shereefian Kingdom is the main producer and exporter of drugs in the world”, maintains the agent who has desired anonymity.
“Narcotics constitute the privileged weapon of the Maghzen, central power, particularly the entourage of the sovereign, with a view to obtaining reciprocity of treatment in the relations of Morocco with Europeans”, affirms the agent who maintains to have succeeded in infiltrating Moroccan services and Islamists.
“The repetitive announcements from Rabat concerning the dismantling of terrorist networks in Morocco are part of a tactic aimed at forcing Europeans, in particular Spain and France, to maintain their cooperation, as well as their subsidies, in return for information provided by Morocco on migratory movements and drug trafficking, ”he continues.
The third member of the Spanish intelligence services to publish his memoirs on condition of anonymity, the author says he deliberately covered up matters, changing the names and locations of certain security operations in which he participated in order to preserve his anonymity.
In order to infiltrate Islamist circles, the agent introduced himself as a man “newly converted to Islam, without arousing the slightest suspicion …. “Everywhere else, in any other religion, the neophyte would have been investigated. If a man had presented himself as “a new convert to Judaism, he would immediately have aroused suspicion and initiated an investigation to verify the veracity of his condition.” This is not the case with Muslims, ”he assures us.
“Although not a Muslim,” the agent claims to have “an infinitely greater knowledge of Islam than many Muslims.” He specifies having previously infiltrated the Spanish leftist circles, in a city whose name he does not reveal as a precaution.
Among the Spanish leftists, the agent contacted the CNI (Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, CNI), which since 2002 has become the Spanish intelligence and counter-espionage service, headed by Army General Felix Sanz Rodàn. Unlike most other Western countries, Spain has a single intelligence and counterintelligence service.
At the end of his career, the Spanish agent declares to have succeeded in infiltrating the Moroccan intelligence services: “The frogs of the Moroccan services in Spain is a taboo subject among Spanish political personnel because of the sensitive nature of the subject”, he said. .
The agent admits to having been “paid in the fight against terrorism and illegal immigration.
To a lesser degree in the field of the fight against drug trafficking in that Morocco is the main producer and exporter “the Moroccan drug intelligence services in the world”, he explains.
“Contrary to public statements emphasizing the importance of cooperation between Spain and Morocco, the reality is different on the ground.”
“The Moroccan intelligence services, as well as the Ministry of Religious Goods, are certainly working to preserve the Muslim community in Europe, particularly the Moroccan community, from any fundamentalist temptation, but at the same time ensure maintain their hold over this and community, through religion. ”
“Morocco can thus mobilize the Muslim community, particularly Moroccan, in the service of the interests of the Kingdom as a means of pressure against the host countries of these communities. This control had the effect of limiting the free exercise of worship of Muslims wishing to live their belief differently from the official Moroccan rite, the Malikite rite,
, different from the Saudi Wahhabi rite ”.
“One of the major objectives of Moroccan services in Spain is the identification and tracking of sympathizers of the Polisario Front – which claims the independence of Western Sahara, fully claimed by Morocco, and sympathizers of the rebel province of RIF”, indicates- he does.
Funding of mosques
“The money that reached mosques in Spain came from petromonarchies in the Gulf, via pilgrims who carried them in their socks or pouches, sometimes even in suitcases.
The reasons for the publication of these authorized briefs:
The spy claims to have received prior approval from his superiors for the publication of his memoirs. However, the secret agent wonders whether the green light from his hierarchy was not intended to improve the image of the Spanish intelligence services after two resounding failures: the Barcelona attacks in 20127, which were the made up of Moroccan Islamists coming under the Organization of the Islamic State, and the flight to Belgium of the independence leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, whom the Spanish services had “not anticipated”.
The work entitled – “El agente oscuro”, las memorias de un espía español al servicio del CNI “, – is prefaced by Ignacio Cembrero, former correspondent of the Al Pais newspaper in the Middle East for thirty years and rightly considered a perfect connoisseur of the area.
The review of the book in Arabic was carried out by the online site “Ar Rai Al Yom”, available at this link for Arabic-speaking readers.
Primarily Muslim for seven centuries, contemporary Spain has few Muslims. Despite a certain communitarianism and an emerging xenophobia, Muslims in Spain have established a relationship of trust with other believers and non-believers in the country and seem “to have succeeded in their integration. “Spanish Islam today is a Maghrebian Islam that has nothing to do with the Muslims living in Spain from the 8th to the 16th century who were expelled, converted. Spain has only nearly one million, or 2.3% of the country’s total population, according to the latest survey by the Pew Research Center’s religion department in 2010.
The Islamist attacks in Spain
Spain has been rocked by two big and deadly bombings since the rise of Islamic terrorism on the world stage. Two attacks for which the responsibility was attributed to Moroccan nationals:
The Madrid bombing, in 2004, which left more than 200 dead and 1900 injured following the explosion of bombs planted by Islamists in the cercanias (suburban trains) at Madrid station, on March 11, 2004 , in protest against Spain’s participation in the American invasion of Iraq under the leadership of right-wing Prime Minister José Marie Aznar.
The attacks of August 17 and 18, 2017 in Catalonia by ram vehicles on La Rambla in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain, killed 70 people. They have been claimed by the Organization of the Islamic State.
Morocco, a “major non-NATO ally”, a springboard for terrorist attacks in Europe.
If Spain, unlike France or Belgium, was only shaken by two large-scale Islamist terrorist attacks, Morocco has become a springboard for Islamist terrorist attacks in Europe.
A “major non-NATO ally”, the Shereefian kingdom thus appeared to be the largest exporter of Islamic terrorism to Europe, (Madrid attack 2004 which left 200 dead; the assassination of Théo Van Gogh, November 2 2004; the attacks in Brussels in 2015, in Barcelona in 2017; in Trèbes near Carcassonne, March 23, 2018.
In its 2019 annual report, the US State Department highlights “the active participation of the Shereefian kingdom in the Trans-Saharan Partnership against Terrorism (TSCTP), and its cooperation with Belgium, France and Spain,” for thwart terrorist threats in Europe ”.
In addition, the report recalls that “the United States and Morocco have an excellent and long-standing relationship” in this area. Thus, the State Department revealed that the Moroccan security forces took part in several programs organized by the United States “with a view to improving technical and investigative capacities, in particular financial investigations, analysis of the intelligence and cybersecurity ”
Spain is the main destination for Moroccans who represent 16.4% of immigrants in this European country. In the first half of 2019, the proportion of irregular Moroccan immigrants in Spain reached a record 49 percent of all illegal immigrants in Spain.
During 2018, Moroccans represented a little less than 22% of the 57,498 harragas (without papers) who arrived on board 2. 109 tubs on the Spanish coast
s. During the first half of 2019, the total number of irregular immigrants has certainly fallen (- 27%), but the proportion of Moroccans has climbed to 29.9%. At least in May they even reached a record percentage (48.08%).
To go further on this topic: https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/opinion-fr/maroc-etalage-de-luxe-royal-en-mer-pendant-que-les-marocains-emigrent-en- mass
Finally, for the record, it was in Spain that the former Al Jazeera correspondent in Kabul and Baghdad, Tayssir Allouni, was brought to justice for his alleged links with “Al-Qaïda.
Cauda
On July 15, 2019, the Spanish republican daily, Público, published, under the signature of Carlos Enrique Bayo, a four-part investigation into the relationship between the mastermind of the 2017 Catalonia attacks and the Spanish secret services.
According to documents published by the daily and contrary to the official version, Ripoll’s imam, the Moroccan Abdelbaki Es-Satty, long radicalized, had been recruited as an informant by the intelligence services. They had falsified his file in justice to prevent him from being deported at the end of his conviction for drug trafficking and finally a “dead mailbox” had been assigned to him to discuss with his officer in charge and that the phones of his accomplices were listened to.
Also according to the newspaper, the CNI followed the terrorists step by step, knew the targets of the attacks and always continued its surveillance at least four days before the commission of the crimes.
In view of its revelations, the whole question is to know why the CNI did not prevent these attacks and why did it already have in 2008 – that is to say before the recruitment of Abdelbaki Es-Satty as an informant – withheld elements from the Civil Guard in order to protect him from the investigation into the Madrid attack of March 11, 2004 (known as “11-M”).
In any event, cannabis trafficking, a real barometer of relations between the two kingdoms, continued, at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic which hit Spain hard.
The containers continued to arrive safely in the far south of Spain, which had long been plagued by the Moroccan hashish traffic.
The Civil Guard confirmed, at the beginning of April 2020, the arrest of “58 people over the past two weeks, in different provinces of Andalusia” as well as the seizure of “more than 5.5 tonnes of hashish, nine boats and twelve vehicles’ in the province of Almería and the regions of Huelva, Cadiz and Malaga.
A significant figure when the supply routes are supposed to be totally locked and only “essential activities” authorized
https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/04/04/entre-le-maroc-et-l-espagne-le-haschich-passe-toujours_1784061
