Making the connection in the pages of Townhall magazine, using sources of the anonymous kind no less, S.E Cupp hacks away:
In fact, many experts find the suggestion of al Qaeda in the Polisario preposterous. “It is very unlikely that any radical Islamist group would attempt to recruit from the Polisario,” Mundy claims. “Nor is there any evidence of it outside of the very imaginative Moroccan press. The ideology of Polisario is left of-center Nationalist; think [Hugo]Chavez, not bin Laden.” Fakir likewise calls the possibility “highly unlikely.” And Scholte puts it this way: “These terrorist groups would not have the ability to get anywhere with the Polisario—its leaders are committed to non-violence, rule of law [and] international legality. It just goes against their nature to even think about this kind of thing.”
Well, not if you believe Abdullah Hamadi, a man I met in the small city of Dakhla, who told me—in no uncertain terms and in considerable detail—that al Qaeda is indeed inside the Polisario. And in alarming numbers. He knows because he has met them. And he’s met them because he was a member of the Polisario’s foreign relations ministry for years. I met Hamadi (whose name has been changed) through a group of Polisario refugees.
Thirty-eight and slender, he was a member of the Polisario for decades but will not say when he left or how. His uncle is still a minister of defense. He says he first noticed al Qaeda operatives in the camps in 1999. “In the beginning, they didn’t tell us they were recruiting for al Qaeda,” Hamadi said. “They just tried to indoctrinate the young people in the camps, telling them that the war between the Polisario and Morocco was really a war created by the West against Muslims. They didn’t say ‘jihad,’ because Moroccan Muslims don’t know ‘jihad.’This is meaningless to them. They just told the young people that they needed to be armed for when the Christians come to attack them.”
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