Polisario Reactivates Attacks on Morocco in the Laundering War of the Sahara

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An attack by the Frente Polisario with at least four shells — Iranian-made rockets, according to Morocco — struck last Friday in the vicinity of Esmara, 220 kilometres east of El Aaiún, a city close to the wall that divides Western Sahara between the area under control of Rabat (80 per cent of the territory) and the rest, in the hands of the independents. The bombing represents an escalation of hostilities in the low-intensity larvada war that h…