Former Terrorist Emir Ali Benhadjar Emerges: The Resurgence of the Dissolved Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and Its Implications for Algeria

2023-10-14 12:32:00

The former terrorist emir Ali Benhadjar (local emir of the GIA in Médéa where he was very active) read, in the name of the dissolved Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), a press release dated September 30 in which there is no question a dead hand against the authoritarian excesses of the Algiers regime.

He chose Tik Tok to communicate with his Algerian compatriots and announce to them that he is still there, lurking in society. The FIS is ready to govern the destiny of the country according to the former FIS deputy and leader of the Islamist maquis in Médéa and founder of the Islamic League for Dâawa and Jihad (Lidd). Ali Benhadjar, one of the founders of the FIS, had contributed to the radicalization of the FIS with the advent of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) when the Front was dissolved.

He then trained as a bloodthirsty man, just like the military, and contributed significantly to the Black Decade and as the civil war in Algeria progressed, through the armed wing of the FIS, the Islamic Group. armed (GIA) to violence and the extension of “jihad”. The barbarity on both sides was such that it caused a quarter of a million victims of its violence which increased in crescendo. The first targets of the GIA turned out to be symbols of the State (gendarmerie, police, army, etc.), before the Islamists gradually came to target and attack all their opponents, religious figures as well as intellectuals.

That said on Sunday, Ali Benhadji took it upon himself to read the press release from the dissolved FIS. He called for the release of detainees “from the 1990s”, as well as the freeing of prisoners of conscience from Hirak. Ali Benhadjar called on those in power to open up the political field, an end to repression… He even called for respect for “liberties”.

It seems that the dissolution of the FIS by Mohamed Boudiaf was hardly enough 40 years later to annihilate the political-terrorist organization and that the threat, one more, still weighs on the regime of the senile Algerian duo who clings to power A radical Islamist movement is opening up in front of it, with the help of Iran, which does not despair of taking power to establish the Islamic republic. Indeed, another Islamist religious front after Abdelkader Bengrina (El Bina) and the MSP, it will now have to deal with the FIS, not to mention the independence rebel movements of Kabylia (MAK, Rachad, GPK, etc.).

The Algiers regime has a lot to worry about, because the “eternal enemy” can also come from the southern and eastern borders, you never know with all the putsches around in recent times. This media release by Ali Benhadjar in any case confirms that the Algerian capos regime is increasingly on borrowed time, he who believed himself to have put an end to all opposition from civil society by thinking of having liquidated the hopes of peaceful change of the Hirak. But like an unextinguished fire, the embers are gradually rekindling the fire. What will be Algiers’ reaction afterwards to try to save the regime from the military chaos in which it is plunged?

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