What We Know About the Conditions of the Dismissal of General Hassan, Patron of Algerian Homeland Security

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The boss chair of the Algerian DGSI is decidedly an ejectable seat: like his predecessors before him, General Hassan has just been ousted after less than a year in office. The reasons for his dismissal question in Algiers.

Mondafrique

Factuality

Ownership

The upheavals at the head of Algerian counter-espionage (DGSI), the most powerful branch of the services, testify to the very strong American influence in Algiers. General Hassan, who was its boss and who had been considered a privileged interlocutor in Paris since the black years (1992-1998), has in fact been ousted. His replacement by a senior who is very close to the Americans, General Zahi, testifies to the vitality of relations between Alge…