M'henna Djebbar personally tried to destabilise Morocco through the Rif

As Maghreb Intelligence reveals, the head of the General Directorate of Documentation and External Security (DDSE) - the Algerian foreign intelligence agency - Major General M'henna Djebbar was personally involved "to put the Rif National Party at war".   

According to the media, within the agency "only a handful of senior officials were aware of this manoeuvre", as the Rif dossier was classified as "top secret" on the orders of General M'henna Djebbar, who personally oversaw the project of "the creation of an independent party in Morocco's Rif region". 

M'henna Djebbar, under pressure from the Algerian presidency for his multiple failures in Mali, Niger and Western Sahara, has been working for six months to prepare "a bad blow to Morocco", a source in Algiers told Maghreb Intelligence.   

This source claims that several DDSE officers made round trips to Paris and Amsterdam to meet with radical Rif activists. "Long working sessions were held in several cities in the Netherlands to prepare for the opening in Algiers of a representative office of the "Rif National Party"," he reports.  

Algiers would be the headquarters of this party and would also be responsible for the day-to-day running costs, which would be borne directly by the Algerian government. 

The DDSE even paid a first cheque for 500,000 euros to the leaders of this pro-independence party. According to Maghreb-intelligence's sources, this first "advance payment" is intended to facilitate travel abroad and to equip the party with IT and information tools. 

In addition, M'henna Djebbar plans to go further and has drawn up a road map to ensure that the alleged leaders of the Rif independence party get wide media coverage, which is why contacts have been established with "radical pro-independence associations in Spain, and more specifically in Catalonia, the Basque Country and the Canary Islands, France and Italy", says Maghreb Intelligence.  

"The aim is to provide the "Rif National Party" with a political-media surface that will allow it to ostensibly obstruct Morocco", it adds.    

According to Maghreb Intelligence, the head of the DDSE, M'henna Djebbar, is trying to save his job before the presidential elections, as the Movement for Self-Determination of Kabylia (MAK) has been ridiculing him for years. "He would like to create a cause in the Rif equivalent to that of the MAK in Algeria", it concludes.