Dr. Haroun Hussein, the dissident of the government and a former senior official of the Algerian foreign intelligence service, the most powerful security apparatus in Algeria, known as the DRS, leaked what was said in a telephone conversation between the chief of the general staff of the Algerian army, Said Changria , and the Russian Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu
Hossein said that Changria confirmed to the Russian official that the maneuvers as part of the "African Lion" exercise would be an attack against Algeria and the Russian weapons of its army, chiefly the S-400 air defense system.
An intelligence report contained details of the failed operation of the American-Israeli plan to destroy Algerian S-400 batteries, in which the American B-52 bomber was supposed to take off from the NATO base in Sicily, in southern Italy, to hit the 2 batteries that in the territory of Algeria, after determining their exact location, but before the start of the operation, the American military forces present at the air base in Sicily received a message from NATO that the US should avoid hitting targets in Algeria, using bombers stationed at NATO bases, which resulted in the cessation of the operation, said the official who heard in the secret phone call.
According to the Haron leak, Changria assured Sergei Shoigu that Algeria was ready to be a strategic partner with Russia in all of Africa to confront the US-Morocco alliance.
NEWSRAEL: This whole report seems to be made up in Algeria, espcially after it was known that after this "leak" Algeria has requested to purchase a large list of Russian arms.