All of this would be a story as old as Jane Fonda visiting North Vietnam, a credulous celebrity falling for an extremist group promising liberation except that the Polisario has been repeatedly and credibly linked to al Qaeda affiliates.
Feed the phonied-up stories to friendly media who write credulous reports and emotional human interest features, post them on a Web site where they will then be read and used as sources by other lazy (or busy) media from all over the world.