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Viewing cable 08ALGIERS682, KING OF RAI LATEST WESTERN SAHARA CASUALTY

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08ALGIERS682 2008-06-11 08:49 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Algiers
P 110849Z JUN 08
FM AMEMBASSY ALGIERS
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5980
INFO AMEMBASSY PARIS 
AMEMBASSY MADRID 
AMEMBASSY RABAT 
AMEMBASSY TUNIS 
AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI
AMEMBASSY NOUAKCHOTT 
AMEMBASSY NIAMEY 
AMEMBASSY BAMAKO 
AMCONSUL CASABLANCA 
USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 
HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
UNCLAS ALGIERS 000682 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PBTS PREF PREL SCUL KPAO WI MO AG
SUBJECT: KING OF RAI LATEST WESTERN SAHARA CASUALTY 
 
REF: RABAT 496 
 
1. According to Algerian press reports and an Algerian 
concert goer in Morocco, Algerian pop star Cheb Khaled, known 
as the King of Rai music, was briefly assaulted on June 1 by 
a Moroccan concert audience angry at his known affection for 
the cause of Western Saharan independence.  After a Spanish 
concert in May in which Khaled wore the Sahrawi flag on his 
shoulders, Algerian French-language daily Le Jeune 
Independant reported on June 5 that Khaled received "an 
interesting financial offer" from the Moroccan concert 
organizers to use the June 1 concert in Meknes to publicly 
change his views.  After he allegedly declined the offer, the 
crowd treated him to a brief shower of glass bottles and 
insults.  Khaled had refused to perform inside the territory 
of Western Sahara earlier in the year. 
 
A SINGER WRAPPED IN THE SAHRAWI FLAG 
------------------------------------ 
 
2. Khaled's sympathies for Western Sahara and the Polisario 
are well known - he declined to participate in the February 
28 - March 3 music festival in the city of Dakhla, stating on 
Algerian radio that "one cannot be a music Ambassador for 
peace in the world and ignore people's rights."  (Note: 
Dakhla lies well inside the territory of Western Sahara.  End 
note.)  During the month of May, Khaled, whose full name is 
Khaled Hadj Brahim, performed during the International 
Festival of Peoples Cultures in Spain.  While singing, he at 
one point carried the Western Sahara flag on his shoulders, 
an act not lost on the Algerian public, for whom Khaled is a 
national icon.  According to Leila Bouzar, a reporter for 
Algerian channel 3 radio, the Makhzen (Moroccan institutions 
of state) "is becoming more and more aggressive as far as 
Western Sahara is concerned," and that the recent impasse in 
the Manhasset negotiations had served to arouse public 
passions over the issue in both Morocco and Algeria.  Nadia 
Cheriet, advisor to the Minister of Culture, told us on June 
7 that "it is sad to see politics infringing on culture" in 
this way, adding that "we have seen him singing with the 
Moroccan flag, the Lebanese flag, the Palestinian flag, so 
why shouldn't he sing with the Sahrawi one?" 
 
INTERMARRIAGE ONLY GOES SO FAR 
------------------------------ 
 
3. The June 1 concert was Khaled's first appearance in 
Morocco since the Spanish concert.  According to an Algerian 
fan living in Casablanca, the concert started smoothly but 
then went south when one fan threw a bottle at him.  This, 
said our contact, "was a signal for others to follow." 
Several more glass bottles followed, along with shouts of 
"traitor."  Khaled suffered a minor leg injury from the glass 
and had to leave the stage for fifteen minutes.  When he 
returned, he pointed out to the audience that "you know how 
much I am attached to Morocco.  You know that my wife, the 
mother of my daughters, is Moroccan."  By brandishing his own 
personal pan-Maghreb credentials, Khaled succeeded in putting 
a stop to the insults and bottle throwing, and the concert 
continued, albeit amidst a tense atmosphere. 
 
COMMENT: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS 
----------------------------- 
 
4. Khaled himself embodies both the promise and challenges of 
pan-Maghreb integration.  An Algerian pop icon without equal, 
he hails from Western Algeria, is married to a Moroccan, 
adamantly supports the Western Sahara cause, and has achieved 
fame throughout the Arab and francophone world.  Given the 
propensity of Rai music to focus on love, politics and 
sensuality (the genre, born in Western Algeria and Morocco, 
derives its name from the Arabic word for "opinion"), several 
prominent Rai singers were killed by Islamists in the 1990s. 
Khaled's own life was threatened several times and, while 
still considering himself an Algerian patriot, he has lived 
in France and Belgium ever since the early 1990s.  The June 1 
concert in Meknes served as an unfortunate reminder that, 
while culture crosses borders within the Maghreb, politics - 
as represented by Algerian attitudes towards Morocco's stance 
on the Western Sahara and reopening the borders - still has a 
long way to go. 
 
FORD