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Rabat – APS, Algeria’s state-owned news agency, has made new hostile allegations accusing Morocco of being behind the recent cyber attacks against its website.
Algerian news outlets published on Sunday a press release from APS stressing that the agency had faced a “serious cyber attack” that led to its “temporary blocking.”
Not surprisingly, the Algerian news outlet claimed that Morocco, the Algerian regime’s first suspect and eternal scapegoat, was among the “geographical sources” from where its servers had been attacked.
“This series of electronic attacks has been located according to the geographical sources of the Zionist entity, Morocco and certain regions of Europe. Technical measures and the agency’s defense systems have made it possible to repel this series of attacks which are still in progress,” APS said.
With the Algerian regime having intensified its hostile campaigns against Morocco since suspending all diplomatic ties with the kingdom in August 2021, such accusations from Algiers have become a common feature of the strained relations between the two neighbors.
In August 2021, the Algerian regime accused Morocco of being behind the wildfires that hit several areas in the Kabylia region in northern Algeria.
Ignoring the rise in temperatures that could have been a direct factor in the wildfires, the Algerian regime suggested, without providing any strong supportive evidence, that the fires were due to a Moroccan-Israeli conspiracy.
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Days after pointing fingers at Morocco, reports in the Algerian press indicated that security services had arrested arsonists responsible for starting the fires that caused devastation across northern and northeastern Algerian. Still, the Algerian regime continued to push its narrative of a “Moroccan plot” to destabilize Algeria.
For observers of the long history of tumultuous relations between Algiers and Rabat, it was striking that Algeria’s accusations came after King Mohammed VI had ordered the Moroccan ministries of foreign affairs and interior to offer help to Algeria as it grappled with devastating wildfires.
Morocco was ready to send two Canadair CL-415 aircraft to support the operation if the Algerian government accepted its offer to help put out the raging fires.
Instead, Algeria decided to cut diplomatic ties with Morocco, accusing the country of “hostile actions” to undermine its security.
Over the past few months and years, Morocco has downplayed Algeria’s accusations and provocations to insistently call on the Algerian regime to enter in a frank and direct dialogue with the Moroccan government to end the decades-long political stalemate between the two countries.
Ignoring several dialogue initiatives from Rabat, Algerian officials have continued to share hostile remarks aimed at challenging Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara.
One of the latest such comments came from Algerian President Ambdelmajid Tebboune, who has claimed that his country cut ties with Morocco to avoid “war.”
“We broke [diplomatic ties with Morocco] so as not to go to war and no country can mediate between us,” Tebboune said in an interview in December of last year.
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