Mali is "angry against the Polisario," said a source close to the Malian government, quoted by the agency.

Two elements of the Polisario detained by Malian military in the region of Timbuktu

Since two years, "Mali no longer recognizes the SADR," says Moctar Diallo, a law professor at the University of Bamako, quoted by the Agency, adding that Mali believes that "We should rather support The UN plan "on the Sahara issue.

"Two young Sahrawis are involved in the kidnapping of two French nationals in Hombori" in the north-eastern Mali in late November 2011, according to a document of the security services of Mali, seen by AFP.

The document entitled "Al-Qaeda in the Polisario camps," adds that "Mali has also the evidence that Polisario elements are involved in a sub-regional trafficking of drugs."

The document of the Malian intelligence mentions "two Sahrawis involved" in this rapt, from the camps in Tindouf, Algeria, who "have been seduced by the legend of Hakim Ould Mohamed M'Barek alias Houdheifa, a leading figure in the Polisario AQIM, "says the agency.

According to Oumar Diakité, a Malian security official, "AQIM is getting installed everywhere, Algeria, Mauritania and Mali, but (it) has its ramifications in the ranks of the Polisario. Middlemen have been recruited," says the source.

Malian officials have also said recently that three Europeans kidnapped Oct. 23 in Tindouf camps in southwest Algeria, were in conspiracy with the Sahrawi branch of AQIM, according to the same source, who recently said that Bamako "denounced the illegal entry" into its territory of armed men from the Polisario to kill a man and kidnap several others, all "wrongfully," accused he said, by the Polisario to participate in the kidnapping of three Western aid workers.

"It is the second time in less than two years they come to leave us in shambles. The first time was for a story between drug traffickers (2010) in which they (Polisario elements) were involved," denounces Amadou Diré, communal Councillor of Timbuktu (northern Mali).

According to observers, "Polisario sought in the Mali operation to take the hostages, but also to show that it is not standing still against AQIM," said the agency, noting that a new incident occurred between both parties on the evening of December 24th with "the pushing back" by Malian security of eight young people of the movement wanting to enter Mali through Niger.

"They had no legal papers. There are laws to be respected in Mali especially when it comes to dubious propaganda," Malian police officer Moussa Koly told AFP.