General Hassan Appointment Signals Implicit Warning to the West

The appointment of General Abdelkader Aït Ouarabi, alias “Hassan”, as head of Algeria’s DGSI marks more than a personnel shuffle: it is a strategic recalibration of the regime’s domestic security posture. His return coincides with the implementation of two sweeping laws: a revised Code of Criminal Procedure granting expanded surveillance powers, and a General Mobilization Law enabling military deployments without parliamentary consent.

But as our investigation shows Aït Ouarabi is not just a security official; he is a symbol of the Mohamed Mediene system, akin to Chafik Mesbah. Tied to operations in Tunisia’s Chaambi (revealed by the SIM card scandal), covert arms trafficking in Libya, the In Amenas hostage-takers’ armament siege, and the Tamouret training camp where mass graves have been partially exhumed, his reappointment revives a shadowy era of state-terror collusion. All these actions were reportedly known to, and never exposed by, U.S. and British intelligence.

His reinstatement is blackmail diplomacy: a veiled threat to the West, if you designate the Polisario as a terrorist organization or pressure the Algerian military: collusion files implicating the CIA, DIA and MI6 in false-flag terrorism and covert destabilization may open. The message is clear: “We won’t go down alone like Assad did; we will drag the CIA, DIA, and MI6 with us.”

But what the Cold War veteran gerontocrats — Said Chengriha (79), Mohamed Mediene (85), and General Hassan (78), don’t understand is that the world has changed. Geopolitical interests have shifted. Trump’s war on the U.S. intelligence apparatus, and Europe’s new posture, mean the old DRS-era leverage may no longer hold.

Abderrahmane Fares ✍️