Rocket Attack on Smara Linked to Polisario Front, Russian Weapons Suspected

According to the FAR-Maroc forum citing reliable sources, the nature of the rockets used in the Smara attack against civilians, killing one and injuring three, including two seriously, is enough to establish the responsibility of the Polisario Front. "These rockets are of the same nature as those used by the Polisario against the defense line, since the Front has unilaterally ended the ceasefire," it reveals.

These 122mm rockets with an average range between 15 and 40 kilometers are "certainly more modernized and advanced models, received by the Front from its Iranian allies, sponsors of terrorism, through Hezbollah, and with Algerian logistical support. The range and fragmentation nature of these explosives testify to an evolution of the terrorist militias’ capabilities" of the Polisario, specifies the FAR-Maroc forum.

This attack on Smara testifies to the Polisario’s determination to insist on the existence of an armed conflict in the Sahara. "After 900 communiqués on military offensives, some of which have only been effective, all along the Moroccan defense wall, without any results and without any damage to the Royal Armed Forces, the Polisario found itself facing the pressure of the camps (of Tindouf, in Algeria, editor’s note)," analyzes the FAR-Maroc forum.

The Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN, Omar Hilale, declared on Monday in New York that this "act of war will not go unpunished". The perpetrators of this attack "will have to assume their legal, but also political, responsibilities. I am not only talking about those who carried out these attacks, but also about those behind them. Those who shelter them, provide them with missiles, Katyushas or mortars," he said.