Ahmed Gaïd Salah...
This gave Gaïd Salah direct control of the National Defence Ministry the ANP and key DRS services...
He is unlikely to have voluntarily ceded to Gaïd Salah services central to DRS operations: the Centre de communication et de diffusion (CCD) the Direction centrale de la sécurité de l'armée (DCSA) and the Service de police judiciaire...
On 21 May he was moved to the Institution Nationale des Invalides and on 13 June the state-controlled ENTV channel broadcast three minutes of heavily-edited footage of an apparently convalescing Bouteflika drinking coffee and chatting with Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and the Chief of Defence Staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaïd Salah...
Sellal and Gaïd Salah were there to represent the continuity of the state...
Gaïd Salah is among those expected to be retired...
Gaïd Salah when he retires; rival candidates include Gen...
