Former prime minister and former defense minister clash

Former prime minister and former defense minister clash

Late Houari Boumediene death still an enigma

Al Khabar, 05 August 2007

The clash between the former Prime Minister Belaid Abdesselam and former defense minister general Khaled Nezzar is still the focus of media, as the former called the latter not “to intervene in matters related to the national movement because he has nothing to do with it”. Mr. Abdesselam also talked about the “ambiguous death of late president Houari Boumediene”.
In a controversial context resulting in Belaid Abdesselam memories aired on internet in which he tackles the nitty-gritty of the Higher Council of State HCE leadership of the country, the former prime minister recalls that Khaled Nezzar was the most influential man in that post 1991 elections institution and the others were puppets-like.
As for Nezzar comments on the national movement Mr. Belaid Abdesselam said “he’s getting through issues he has nothing to do with…Mr. Nezzar is addressing a person (himself, he means) that knows the matter very well, he’ll do better not to intervene”.
Moreover, al Djazaïr News quoted Belaid Abdesselam saying that late former president Houari Boumediene death was unnatural and ambiguous, and told El Khabar with more details that “his death remains an enigma for me…especially that President Boumediene himself told me in 1975 that his life was threatened because of the situation in the Middle East”

 

05-08-2007
By Hamid Yes/ Translated by N. K