The polisario front Unveiled: The United States Moves Toward Classifying It as a Terrorist Organization

On April 12, 2025, a new chapter in the defense of Morocco’s territorial integrity is written, this time from the heart of the world’s leading power. Republican Congressman Joe Wilson, a member of the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that he would introduce a bill to classify the Polisario Front as a terrorist organization. This is a historic and bold step, consistent with the reality of the facts.

It is no longer just about supporting the Moroccan autonomy plan—serious, credible, and realistic—as the U.S. administrations have done for years. The shift is deeper: it aims to expose the violent, destabilizing, and dangerously infiltrated nature of the Polisario, complicit with destabilizing actors such as Iran and South Africa, in an African continent struggling with its security.

Joe Wilson is not speaking without purpose. This legislative initiative follows a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Washington, where the unwavering support of the United States for Morocco’s full sovereignty over its Sahara was reaffirmed. In his public statement, the congressman noted that “the true path to peace in the region is through real autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty,” directly labeling the Polisario as “terrorists.”

This is not just rhetoric. Wilson’s legislative proposal reflects a profound shift on the international stage: the truth about the Polisario is beginning to prevail. And with it, the mask falls off a group that has lived for decades off the misery of the camps, regional trafficking, and the blind support of an Algerian military regime that uses the Sahrawis as pawns in a senseless war against Morocco.

For a long time, Morocco has warned about the infiltration of the Polisario by extremist groups and the dangerous links it maintains with destabilizing actors. Today, these warnings are being heard in Capitol Hill. Terrorism does not always wear a black turban or a foreign flag: sometimes it disguises itself as a “liberation” movement, while perpetuating the suffering of entire generations in Tindouf. Therefore, classifying the Polisario as a terrorist organization is both a political decision and an act of justice, recognizing that in North Africa, peace will only be possible if we firmly confront those who fuel violence, separatism, and chaos.