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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US">Vendredi
4 mars 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="d2edcug0">17:42 </span>Thierry Meyssan écrit :
nous faisons l'objet d'une vaste attaque contre notre site internet, <a href="http://Voltairenet.org/?fbclid=IwAR2EcUzp5YtZdCETxYaWdbEXjdlAz7-kx2iHUzyLeFiO1iEk0wPNv4JRDOo" target="_blank">Voltairenet.org</a>, déplacé d'Ukraine en Finlande ce week-end,
contre nos listes de diffusion et contre nos e-mails sécurisés.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Il s'agit d'une attaque militaire.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Le site est actuellement hors d'usage. Des données
pourraient être perdues.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Via Facebook Alain Benajam :</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Article <a href="http://Voltairenet.org/?fbclid=IwAR1E08CNuuKlbwdXfsvlm3MRxDMd3K7XWoe668fNQCNxoMWnC1M2L7lCIqs" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Voltairenet.org</span></a> ne pouvant
être publié</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">« Une bande de drogués
et de néo-nazis »</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>En évoquant
une bande de drogués et de néo-nazis au pouvoir à Kiev, le président Poutine a
beaucoup choqué. La presse atlantisme s’est efforcée de le présenter comme un
malade mental. Pourtant, les faits sont là : le pouvoir en Ukraine est bien</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>occupé par une
bande de drogués qui a volé les revenus du gaz. Une loi raciale a été votée.
Des monuments au Collaborateur nazi Stepan bandera ont été érigés. Et</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>deux
bataillons nazis ont déjà été incorporés dans l’armée régulière.</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Photo</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>De gauche à droite : David Archer et sa femme, Joe Biden et son fils Hunter
jouant</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>au golf.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Source : Fox News</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Cet article fait suite à :</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- 1. « La Russie veut contraindre les USA à respecter la Charte des Nations
unies»,</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>4 janvier 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- 2. « Washington poursuit le plan de la RAND au Kazakhstan, puis en
Transnistrie »,</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>11 janvier 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- 3. « Washington refuse d’entendre la Russie et la Chine», 18 janvier
2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- 4. « Washington et Londres, atteints de surdité», 1er février 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- 5. « Washington et Londres tentent de préserver leur domination sur
l’Europe», 8</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>février 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- 6. « Deux interprétations de l’affaire ukrainienne », 15 février 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- 7. « Washington sonne l’hallali, tandis que ses alliés se retirent», 22
février 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- 8. « Vladimir Poutine déclare la guerre aux Straussiens », 1er mars 2022.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>La stratégie militaire de la Russie est aujourd’hui
impossible à décrypter car nous n’avons pas de relevé exact des opérations sur
le terrain. Seuls les états-majors russe et otanien en ont. Ce qui est diffusé
est clairement faux, dans le cas des journaux occidentaux et du gouvernement
ukrainien, et invérifiable, dans le cas des armées de la Russie, de Donestz et
de Lougansk.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>La seule chose qui est certaine, c’est que —pour le
moment— les combats se limitent au territoire ukrainien alors que le conflit
concerne la Russie et les États-Unis, et uniquement de manière incidente l’Ukraine.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Nous nous attendons à ce que, le 5 mars 2022, la
Russie hausse le ton et porte le conflit sur un second théâtre d’opération.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>En attendant, je vais expliquer ce dont le président
Vladimir Poutine voulait parler en décrivant les autorités ukrainiennes comme
«une bande de drogués et de néo- nazis», une expression extrêmement choquante,
mais très étayée.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Peut-être le président Poutine accorde-t-il trop d’importance
à ces faits, ou peut-être est-ce nous, Occidentaux, qui les minimisons. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>«Une bande de
drogués»</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Le gouvernement de Viktor Ianoukovytch (2010-14)
tentait de maintenir l'Ukraine dans un juste milieu entre son voisin russe et
son ami états-unien. Cependant selon le mot du président Bush fils, «Ceux qui
ne sont pas avec nous, sont contre nous». </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Par conséquent, il était considéré par les Occidentaux
comme «pro-Russe». Il fut renversé par les États-Unis, sous le commandement de
l'assistante du secrétaire d'État pour l'Eurasie, la straussienne Victoria
Nuland, à l'occasion de la «révolution de la dignité» sur la place Maïdan. Le
régime transitoire était au mains d'émeutiers professionnels. On découvrit
alors l'ampleur de la corruption de l'équipe Ianoukovytch et les Straussiens
décidèrent de gagner plus d'argent encore.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Le 3 avril, un des anciens conseillers du secrétaire d'État
états-unien, John Kerry, l'escroc David Archer, et son camarade de défonce, le
fils du vice-président Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, rencontrèrent le milliardaire
Stephen Schwartman, directeur du fonds d'investissement Blackstone (à ne pas
confondre avec Blackrock) en Italie, sur les bords du lac de Côme, à l'Ambrosetti
Club.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>David Archer, fut placé au conseil d'administration de
Burisma Holdings, une des principales sociétés gazières ukrainiennes dont le
propriétaire était sous le coup de poursuites judiciaires du FBI et du MI5 en
Occident. Les policiers états-uniens et britanniques avaient acquis la
conviction que le propriétaire de Bursima, l'oligarque Mykola Zlochevsky, qui
était le ministre des ressources naturelles du régime de Ianoukovytch s'était
illégalement octroyé des licences pour ses sociétés gazières et pétrolières.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>Pour cette
fonction d'homme de paille, Archer fut rémunéré 83.333~dollars par mois. Une photo
de lui à la Maison-Blanche avec le vice-président Biden fut placée sur le site
de la compagnie.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Puis le vice-président Joe Biden et ses conseillers
Jake Sullivan et Antony Blinken arrivèrent à Kiev pour promettre l'aide des
États-Unis au nouveau régime et organiser des élections crédibles. Cependant,
les oblasts de Donestzk et de Lougansk rejetèrent le gouvernement provisoire
qui comprenait cinq ministres nazis et, par référendum, proclamèrent leur
indépendance. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Le lendemain, 12 mai 2014, le fils du vice-président
Biden, le junkie Hunter Biden, rejoignit le conseil d'administration de Burisma
Holding. Par la suite, un troisième homme, le beau-fils</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>du secrétaire d'État John Kerry, Christopher Heinz,
rejoignit David et Hunter au conseil d'administration de Burisma.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Durant le second semestre 2014, sur instructions de
David Archet et Hunter Biden, Burisma a versé 7 millions de dollars de dessous
de table au Procureur général d'Ukraine du nouveau régime Poroshenko pour
rédiger des faux et clore les poursuites judiciaires contre elle et son
oligarque de propriétaire. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Une écoute téléphonique a permis d'entendre le
président Petro Poroshenko confirmer au vice-président Biden que l'affaire
était «arrangée». </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Les États-Unis avaient donc recyclé l'ancien ministre
du «pro-Russe» Ianoukovytch. Par la suite, le procureur général, décidément
très gourmand, fut évincé par un vote du Parlement provoqué par les États-Unis,
l'Union européenne, le FMI et la Banque mondiale qui souhaitaient aussi sauver
l'oligarque et ancienne Première ministre Yulia Tymoshenko, mais à moindre prix.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Tous ces événements ont largement été relatés dans la
presse ukrainienne. Ils ne sont que le sommet de l'iceberg. <span> </span>Par exemple, selon le {Wall Street Journal},
le secrétaire à l'Énergie états-unien Rick Perry aurait fait pression sur le
président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky pour virer les administrateurs de la
société gazière publique Naftogaz et les remplacer par d'autres dont le
straussien Amos Hochstein. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>En juillet 2019, le président états-unien Donald Trump
demande à son homologue ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, d'enquêter sur ces
affaires de corruption (incluant celle de son propre secrétaire à l’Énergie),
celui-ci refuse. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Alors que Trump se fait de plus en plus pressant, un
fonctionnaire du Renseignement US révèle le contenu de cette conversation et
accuse le président Trump d’instrumenter l’Ukraine pour nuire à son rival, le
candidat démocrate Joe Biden. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Il s’en suivra une procédure de destitution du
président Trump au Congrès, l’Ukrainegate.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Le moins que l'on puisse dire, c'est qu’un grand
nombre de faits de corruption est avéré, qu'ils ont été perpétrés au bénéfice
de personnalités ukrainiennes et états-uniennes, et qu'en définitive, des
dizaines de milliards de dollars ont disparu et le niveau de vie de la
population ukrainienne s’est effondré. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Tout cela a été effectué grâce à des hommes de paille
qui n'ont aucune compétence en matière de gaz, mais ont en commun de participer
aux soirées de consommation de drogue d'Hunter Biden. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>C'est cela que le président russe Vladimir Poutine a
évoqué à juste titre.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>D'un point de vue européen, chacun a constaté que
depuis un an, le prix du gaz à la consommation a été multiplié par dix.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>Certes, l’augmentation
de la demande est plus importante que celle de l’offre, mais cela ne peut
absolument pas expliquer l’ampleur de cette hausse du prix.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>En réalité, les
contrats de gaz à long terme sont toujours calculés à des prix un peu plus
chers que par le passé, tandis que les contrats à court terme ont subits une
envolée. La différence s’explique exclusivement par la spéculation. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Et précisément, Blackstone et les amis du président
Joe Biden ont été les premiers à spéculer. Ils s’attendaient à l’évidence à une
crise dans un des pays producteur.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>On comprend mieux pourquoi la presse atlantiste
minimise l’affaire Hunter Biden, dans laquelle son père devenu président des
États-Unis est mouillé jusqu’au cou.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>En définitive,
l'opération militaire actuelle en Ukraine provoque une hausse supplémentaire
des prix du gaz, toujours au profit des amis du président US et au détriment
des Européens.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Ces faits doivent être reliés à ce que j’écrivais dans
l’article précédent de cette série.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken et Victoria Nuland, qui
ont piloté ces combines, sont des Straussiens. Et comme l’écrivait le premier d’entre
eux, Paul Wolfowitz, en 1992.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Le premier rival des États-Unis, c’est l’Union
européenne dont il faut empêcher le développement.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Au demeurant, ces faits sont des affaires intérieures
ukrainiennes et ouest-européenne. Ils ne justifient pas d’intervention
extérieure.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>«Une bande de
néo-nazis»</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Le président Vladimir Poutine a également évoqué une
bande de néo-nazis. Cette fois, il ne s’agit plus d’un petit groupe de quelques
dizaines de personnes, mais de quelques milliers, entre 10 et 20.000.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Pour comprendre, il faut se souvenir qu’à la fin de la
Seconde Guerre mondiale, les États-Unis et l’URSS ont chacun fait prisonnier de
nombreux dignitaires nazis.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>Tous ont essayé
de récolter leurs informations. Mais si, au bout de huit mois, les Soviétiques
les ont renvoyés chez eux, les États-uniens en ont conservé un certain nombre
et les ont recyclés. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Chacun sait que, par exemple, le savant nazi qui
imagina les V2, Werner von Braun, devint le directeur de la Nasa (opération
«Paperclip»). Ou encore que le conseiller spécial du chancelier Adolf Hitler
pour l’Ordre nouveau en Europe, Walter Hallstein, devint le premier président
de la Commission européenne.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Ou encore que l’alpiniste Heinrich Harrer fut chargé
par la CIA d’élever le Dalaï-Lama. Ce que l’on sait mois, c’est que la CIA
recycla aussi de nombreux SS et policiers de la Gestapo un peu partout dans le
monde. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Elle plaça par exemple le gestapiste Klaus Barbie à la
tête de la Bolivie où il parvint à assassiner Che Guevara, ou le SS Alois
Brunner en Syrie (alors alliée de Washington).</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Durant toute la Guerre froide, la CIA utilisa les
nazis. Cependant, le président Jimmy Carter chargea l’amiral Stansfield Turner
de remettre de l’ordre dans l’agence, d’y limiter le rôle de ces agents et d’en
finir avec les dictatures.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>La plupart des
nazis furent renvoyés, mais ceux qui pouvaient agir dans le Pacte de Varsovie
furent conservés. Ainsi le président Ronald Reagan célébra les «nations
captives» d’Europe de l’Est, créant une ribambelle d’associations pour
déstabiliser les États membres du Pacte de Varsovie, voire l’URSS.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>C'est donc de manière tout à fait logique, qu’en 2007,
la CIA organisa à Ternopol (Ukraine) un congrès pour rassembler les néo-nazis
européens et les jihadistes moyen-orientaux anti-Russes. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Il fut présidé par le nazi ukrainien Dmitro Yarosh et l’émir
tchétchène Dokou Umarov. Toutefois ce dernier, recherché par Interpol, ne put
pas se rendre sur place. Il envoya donc un message vidéo de soutien. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Par la suite, les néo-nazis et les jihadistes se
battirent ensemble pour imposer l’Émirat islamique d’Itchkérie à la place de la
République tchétchène.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>En 2013, l’Otan forma au combat de rue les hommes du
même Dmitro Yarosh en Pologne. De la sorte, ils furent opérationnels lors du
changement de régime diligenté par Victoria Nuland en Ukraine : la « révolution
de la dignité » dite aussi «EuroMaïdan». </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>La plupart des journalistes sur place ont remarqué la
présence inquiétante de ces nazis, mais les personnalités occidentales qui
venaient participer à cette «révolution», comme Bernard-Henri Lévy étaient
aveugles.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Dans les mois qui suivirent, la présence de cinq ministres
nazis dans le gouvernement de transition provoqua les référendums d’indépendance
des oblasts de Donestz et Lougansk.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>Le président
Petro Porochenko, sur les conseils des amis d’Hunter Biden, les organisa en
unités militaires qu’il plaça à la frontière des nouvelles Républiques
populaires de Donestz et de Lougansk.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>Les groupes
néo- nazis étaient financés par le parrain de la mafia locale Ihor Kolomoïsky.
Le fait que ce dernier soit président de la Communauté juive d’Ukraine ne l’a
pas empêché de choisir ainsi ses hommes de main. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Cependant lorsque Kolomoïsky tenta de prendre le
contrôle des organisations juives européennes grâce à son argent et par la
menace, il se fit éjecter.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Pour renverser le président Porochenko, Ihor Kolomoïsky
fabriqua de toutes pièces un nouvel homme politique en produisant une série de
télévision, {Serviteur du peuple}, dont l’acteur principal était un certain
Volodymyr Zelensky. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Lorsque celui-ci fut élu président et que les
Straussiens accédèrent à nouveau à la Maison-Blanche, il accepta toutes leurs
suggestions.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span> </span>Il dressa des
monuments en hommage à Stepan Bandera, le chef des Collaborateurs nazis durant
la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En définitive, il soutint son idéologie selon
laquelle la population ukrainienne a deux origines, d’une part scandinave et
proto-germanique, d’autre part slave, seuls les premiers sont de véritables
Ukrainiens, les seconds ne sont que des Russes, des sous-hommes. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Il promulgua alors une «Loi sur les peuples autochtones»
qui prive les Ukrainiens d’origine salve de la jouissance des Droits de l’homme
et des libertés fondamentales. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Cette loi n’a pas encore été appliquée.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Durant sept ans, les groupes nazis ont massacré des
habitants du Donbass, au hasard. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>L’Allemagne et la France, garants des accords de
Minsk, n’ont rien fait. Les Nations unies elles-mêmes ont fermé les yeux.
Pendant sept ans, ces groupes se sont développés. Ils sont passés de centaines
de soldats à des milliers.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>A la demande de Victoria Nuland, le président Zelensky
nomma Dmitro Yarosh conseiller spécial du chef des armées. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Ce dernier, manifestement gêné, refusa de commenter
cet étrange duo pour des questions de «sécurité nationale». Yarosh réorganisa
les néo-nazis en deux bataillons et en groupes urbains. Il lança une vaste attaque
des oblasts séparatistes le week-end de la Conférence sur la sécurité de
Munich, déclenchant ainsi la réponse russe.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Le 3 mars, le bataillon nazi Aïdar fut vaincu par
l'armée russe. Le président Zelensky nomma alors son commandant gouverneur d’Odessa
avec pour mission d’empêcher les armées russes de faire la jonction entre la
Crimée et la Transnistrie. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Tous ces faits sont indiscutables. On peut estimer que
la réponse de la Russie est disproportionnée et inappropriée, mais pas qu’elle
soit injustifiée.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Il faut garder à l’esprit que la Seconde Guerre
mondiale a été vécue différemment à l’Ouest et à l’Est. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>En Europe de l’Ouest, le nazisme était une dictature
qui s’en est prise à des minorités,</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>les Tsiganes et les Juifs, qu’elle a enlevé et
exterminé par millions dans des camps. En Europe de l’Est, le projet était tout
autre. Il s’agissait de de libérer un espace vital en exterminant la</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>population slave. Il n’y avait pas besoin de camp. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Il fallait tuer tout le monde. Les destructions ne
sont pas coupables. La seule URSS a compté 27 millions de morts. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>La Russie moderne s’est construite sur le souvenir de
cette Grande Guerre patriotique contre le nazisme. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Pour les Russes, il est inacceptable de porter des
croix gammées et de voter une loi raciale. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Il faut agir sans attendre qu’elle soit appliquée.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span class="en_N i_3mCHE" data-test-id="message-group-subject" title="Lettre de Carlo Maria Viganò, ex-nonce apostolique aux USA (2011-2016), à Donald Trump: Covid social engineering / deep state / orchestrated media narrative / Invisible Enemy"><span data-test-id="message-group-subject-text">Covid social engineering / deep state / orchestrated media narrative / Invisible Enemy</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Solve et Coagula</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From <b>Nunzio Apostolico representing Pope Benedict in the
United States, Cardinal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Maria_Vigan%C3%B2">Carlo Maria Viganò </a>was transferred to the to
the Diocese of Ulpiana (Pristina Kosovo) after he publicized a 7,000
word letter asking for the resignation of Pope Francis, accusing him of
covering up sexual abuse and giving comfort to a “homosexual current” in
the Vatican.</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, from Pristina, he wrote the following open letter to US President Donald Trump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>June 7, 2020 </b>Holy Trinity Sunday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr. President,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>In recent months we have been witnessing the formation of two opposing sides that I would call <i>Biblical</i>:
the children of light and the children of darkness. The children of
light constitute the most conspicuous part of humanity, while the
children of darkness represent an absolute minority. And yet the former
are the object of a sort of discrimination which places them in a
situation of moral inferiority with respect to their adversaries, who
often hold strategic positions in government, in politics, in the
economy and in the media. In an apparently inexplicable way, the good
are held hostage by the wicked and by those who help them either out of
self-interest or fearfulness.</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>These two sides, which have a <i>Biblical </i>nature, follow the
clear separation between the offspring of the Woman and the offspring of
the Serpent</b>. On the one hand there are those who, although they have a
thousand defects and weaknesses, are motivated by the desire to do good,
to be honest, to raise a family, to engage in work, to give prosperity
to their homeland, to help the needy, and, in obedience to the Law of
God, to merit the Kingdom of Heaven. On the other hand, there are those
who serve themselves, who do not hold any moral principles, who want to
demolish the family and the nation, exploit workers to make themselves
unduly wealthy, foment internal divisions and wars, and accumulate power
and money: for them the fallacious illusion of temporal well-being will
one day – if they do not repent – yield to the terrible fate that
awaits them, far from God, in eternal damnation.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>In society, Mr. President, these two opposing realities co-exist as
eternal enemies, just as God and Satan are eternal enemies. And it
appears that the children of darkness – whom we may easily identify with
the <i>deep state </i>which you wisely oppose and which is fiercely
waging war against you in these days – have decided to show their cards,
so to speak, by now revealing their plans. </b>They seem to be so certain
of already having everything under control that they have laid aside
that circumspection that until now had at least partially concealed
their true intentions. <b>The investigations already under way will reveal
the true responsibility of those who managed the Covid emergency not
only in the area of health care but also in politics, the economy, and
the media. We will probably find that in this colossal operation of
social engineering there are people who have decided the fate of
humanity, arrogating to themselves the right to act against the will of
citizens and their representatives in the governments of nations.</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>We will also discover that the riots in these days were provoked by
those who, seeing that the virus is inevitably fading and that the
social alarm of the pandemic is waning, necessarily have had to provoke
civil disturbances, because they would be followed by repression which,
although legitimate, could be condemned as an unjustified aggression
against the population. The same thing is also happening in Europe, in
perfect synchrony. It is quite clear that the use of street protests is
instrumental to the purposes of those who would like to see someone
elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of
the <i>deep state </i>and who expresses those goals faithfully and
with conviction.</b> It will not be surprising if, in a few months, we learn
once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence
there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social
order so as to build a world without freedom: <i>Solve et Coagula</i>, as the Masonic adage teaches.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although it may seem disconcerting, the opposing alignments I have
described are also found in religious circles. There are faithful
Shepherds who care for the flock of Christ, but there are also mercenary
infidels who seek to scatter the flock and hand the sheep over to be
devoured by ravenous wolves. It is not surprising that these mercenaries
are allies of the children of darkness and hate the children of light:
just as there is a <i>deep state</i>, there is also a <i>deep church </i>that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God. Thus the<b> <i>Invisible Enemy</i></b>,
whom good rulers fight against in public affairs, is also fought
against by good shepherds in the ecclesiastical sphere. It is a
spiritual battle, which I spoke about in my recent <i>Appeal </i>which was published on May 8.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>For the first time, the United States has in you a President who
courageously defends the right to life, who is not ashamed to denounce
the persecution of Christians throughout the world, who speaks of Jesus
Christ and the right of citizens to freedom of worship.</b> Your
participation in the <i>March for Life</i>, and more recently your proclamation of the month of April as <i>National Child Abuse Prevention Month</i>,
are actions that confirm which side you wish to fight on. And I dare to
believe that both of us are on the same side in this battle, albeit
with different weapons.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>For this reason, I believe that the attack to which you were
subjected after your visit to the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II
is part of the orchestrated media <i>narrative </i>which seeks not to
fight racism and bring social order, but to aggravate dispositions; not
to bring justice, but to legitimize violence and crime; not to serve the
truth, but to favor one political faction</b>. And it is disconcerting that
there are Bishops – such as those whom I recently denounced – who, by
their words, prove that they are aligned on the opposing side. They are
subservient to the <i>deep state</i>, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a <i>universal brotherhood </i>which
has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the Masonic ideals of
those want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out
of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The American people are mature and have now understood how much <b>the
mainstream media does not want to spread the truth</b> but seeks to silence
and distort it, spreading the lie that is useful for the purposes of
their masters. However, it is important that the good – who are the
majority – wake up from their sluggishness and do not accept being
deceived by a minority of dishonest people with unavowable purposes. It
is necessary that the good, the children of light, come together and
make their voices heard. What more effective way is there to do this,
Mr. President, than by prayer, asking the Lord to protect you, the
United States, and all of humanity from this enormous attack of the
Enemy? Before the power of prayer, the deceptions of the children of
darkness will collapse, their plots will be revealed, their betrayal
will be shown, their frightening power will end in nothing, brought to
light and exposed for what it is: an infernal deception.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr. President, my prayer is constantly turned to the beloved American
nation, where I had the privilege and honor of being sent by Pope
Benedict XVI as Apostolic Nuncio. In this dramatic and decisive hour for
all of humanity, I am praying for you and also for all those who are at
your side in the government of the United States. I trust that the
American people are united with me and you in prayer to Almighty God.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>United against the <i>Invisible Enemy </i>of all humanity,</b> I bless you and the First Lady, the beloved American nation, and all men and women of good will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana</i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-32848820095513530702014-07-03T23:09:00.000+01:002014-07-03T23:09:13.274+01:00syria: bbc says uk planned to train 100,000 rebels<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army to defeat President Bashar al-Assad</b>, BBC Newsnight can reveal. <b>The secret initiative, put forward two years ago, was the brainchild of the then most senior UK military officer, General Sir David Richards. It was considered by the PM and the National Security Council, as well as US officials, but was deemed too risky. The UK government did not respond to a request for comment. Lord Richards, as he is now, believed his proposal could stem the civilian bloodshed in Syria</b> as rebels fought troops loyal to Mr Assad. The idea was considered by David Cameron and Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, and sent to the National Security Council, Whitehall sources said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was also put to senior figures in Washington, including General Martin Dempsey, the US's most senior military officer.<b> While it was thought to be too radical at the time, US President Barack Obama said last week he was seeking $500m (£291m) funding to train Syrian rebels - an echo of Lord Richards' plan. Insiders have told BBC Newsnight that Lord Richards, then chief of the defence staff but since retired from the military, warned Downing Street there were only two ways to end the Syrian civil war quickly - to let President Assad win, or to defeat him.</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With ministers having pledged not to commit British "boots on the ground", his initiative proposed vetting and training a substantial army of moderate Syrian rebels at bases in Turkey and Jordan. <b> Mr Cameron was told the "extract, equip, train" plan would involve an international coalition. It would take a year, but this would buy time for an alternative Syrian government to be formed in exile, the PM was told.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once the Syrian force was ready, it would march on Damascus, with the cover of fighter jets from the West and Gulf allies. The plan envisaged a "shock and awe" campaign, similar to the one that routed Saddam's military in 2003, but spearheaded by Syrians. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Though the plan was put to one side at the time, Mr Cameron was later persuaded to consider military action when evidence emerged of chemical weapons use in Syria. However, MPs voted against giving authority for a direct intervention last August. </b> The US and UK accused the Assad government of being behind the attacks, but Damascus blamed rebel groups.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-76134315710985138162014-06-25T09:59:00.002+01:002014-06-25T10:19:46.585+01:00france: le systeme centralise, clienteliste et corporatiste a vecu.<br />
<a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2014/06/20/31001-20140620ARTFIG00224-france-les-scenarios-de-la-catastrophe.php#auteur">http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2014/06/20/31001-20140620ARTFIG00224-france-les-scenarios-de-la-catastrophe.php#auteur</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>France : les scénarios de la catastrophe</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">FIGAROVOX/GRAND ENTRETIEN -<b> La France est-elle une cocotte-minute sur le point d'exploser. C'est ce que pense l'essayiste Serge Federbusch. Dans Français, prêts pour votre prochaine révolution ?, il décrit les trois scénarios de notre avenir proche. Deux sont catastrophiques. Le pire, c'est que c'est crédible!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">20/06/2014</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Propos recueillis par Guillaume Perrault</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ancien élève de l'Ecole nationale d'administration</b>, Serge Federbusch est magistrat administratif. Il a travaillé pour le ministère des finances, le quai d'Orsay et la ville de Paris. Président du Parti des Libertés, ancien élu du Xe arrondissement de Paris, Serge Federbusch anime<a href="http://www.delanopolis.fr/"> Delanopolis</a>, site d'information satirique consacrée à la vie politique dans la capitale.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Français, prêts pour votre prochaine révolution? , est publié chez Ixelles éditions (271 p., 17,90€). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>LE FIGARO: en quoi la France de 2014 vous paraît présenter
des analogies avec les cas d'effondrement par désagrégation interne que
la France a connus?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Les analogies sont nombreuses. Le déficit et la <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/dette" target="">dette</a>
publics représentent à peu près les mêmes masses financières, par
rapport à la richesse du pays, qu'en 1788.</b> La crise budgétaire est
ouverte et rien ne semble pouvoir l'enrayer. Le gouvernement a perdu sa <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/souverainete" target="">souveraineté</a>,
son autonomie, en matière de politique monétaire et financière.<b> En
1788, on subissait encore la conséquence de la banqueroute de Law</b>, près
de 70 ans plus tôt. Calonne, qui s'était essayé à manipuler le titrage
en or des louis et ducats, avait été accusé de fraude, presque de crime
contre le bien public.<b> De nos jours, l'Etat est dépendant des décisions
de Bruxelles et de la Banque centrale européenne. Hier comme
aujourd'hui, la perte de crédit et de prestige du souverain et de son
gouvernement sont considérables.</b> L'affaire du collier de la reine avait
beaucoup miné l'autorité royale. <b>Quantité de libellistes écrivaient sous
le manteau des textes d'une hostilité farouche au roi et à la reine. De
même, aujourd'hui, nombre de blogueurs critiquent le pouvoir. Les <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/journalistes" target="">journalistes</a> ne sont plus ni écoutés ni respectés, mais au contraire pris à partie</b>. La frustration générale de l'opinion, la montée du <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/chomage" target="">chômage</a>,
la stagnation du pouvoir d'achat par habitant depuis bientôt dix ans se
constatent aux deux époques. <b>Comme en 1788, le pouvoir n'est plus obéi
ni respecté. La paralysie de l'Etat s'aggrave de mois en mois. Il n'est
même plus capable de régler une question aussi secondaire que celle des
portiques écotaxe. Le système centralisé, clientéliste et corporatiste a
vécu, en 2014 comme en 1788. Reste à savoir d'où viendra l'étincelle.
Je pense que ce sera la crise de l'euro ou une dissolution ratée, ou
encore les deux à la fois, qui rendront le pays ingouvernable.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>La
France, écrivez-vous, a «cherché à tirer parti des avantages de la 3e
révolution industrielle (…) sans en payer le prix»: en quoi?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Depuis plus de trente ans, les Français sont atteints de schizophrénie. Comme <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/consommateurs" target="">consommateurs</a>, ils bénéficient de la baisse du prix de nombreux biens et services grâce à ce qu'on nomme «mondialisation». Comme <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/producteurs" target="">producteurs</a>,
nombre d'entre eux ont vu leurs emplois disparaître ou leurs salaires
stagner du fait de la concurrence internationale. Jusqu'à présent,<b> la
France a plus ou moins réussi à avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre.
Le développement de l'emploi public et de la dette a permis à une large
majorité de la population de bénéficier de cette situation davantage
qu'elle n'en souffrait. Mais aujourd'hui, il faudrait commencer à
rembourser. Et le système ne tient que parce que les prêteurs pensent
que, derrière la France, il y a la discipline germanique qui nous
protège. Mais c'est un baril de poudre près d'un brasier.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Vous n'êtes pas tendre pour la haute fonction publique, vous qui avez fait l'Ena…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">La
France souffre d'une boursouflure du système politico-administratif
français dans ses rapports avec les corporations. <b>Le noyau du système
dirigeant est une sorte de duopole qui comprend <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/elus" target="">élus</a> à vie et<a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/hauts-fonctionnaires" target=""> hauts fonctionnaires</a>.
Ils s'appuient sur une administration dilatée et gouvernent par des
accords avec les corporations et les cadres des grandes entreprises.
Mais les dirigeants de ces deux dernières sont plus solidement installés
que les politiciens, ce qui finit par fragiliser l'Etat.</b> On retrouve
ici un trait commun à tous les régimes français depuis plus de deux
siècles:<b> il est difficile de concilier gouvernement centralisé, régime
économique libéral et parlementarisme de circonscriptions. S'y substitue
donc un dialogue direct entre pouvoir exécutif et corporations qui
finit par être paralysant car il n'existe pas d'arbitre légitime à leurs
inévitables désaccords</b>. C'est ce qui explique, au fond, les déboires
actuels de<b> Hollande</b> qui <b>affronte le stade terminal de cette évolution
délétère.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bruxelles: bouc émissaire de nos difficultés ou vrai coupable?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Les
deux, forcément! L'Etat s'est servi du prétexte européen pour tenter de
résister à certaines pressions corporatistes et a trouvé des
subventions allemandes repeintes aux couleurs de l'Europe pour faciliter
les délicates mutations du monde rural français. Par la suite, le
marché financier européen a permis d'obtenir des financements plus
abondants et de s'endetter à moindre coût</b>. Mais le prix à payer était la
<a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/monnaie-unique" target="">monnaie unique</a>.
Sinon les marchés auraient continué à attaquer le franc, la peseta et
le lire en faisant monter le mark.<b> Aujourd'hui, l'euro agit comme un
noeud coulant autour de l'économie française. Toute réforme de structure
«vertueuse» est rendue vaine par la montée du taux de change de l'euro
qu'elle entraîne.</b> En effet, les marchés en espèrent un redressement
budgétaire dans la zone euro, qui contraste avec la situation
américaine, anglaise ou japonaise. <b>Nous sommes entrés dans l<a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/%27euro" target="">'euro</a>
avec un taux de change du franc surévalué.</b> Les Allemands, qui
d'ailleurs jouent des délocalisations en Europe de l'Est pour améliorer
leur compétitivité, ont pu dès le départ accroître la productivité de
leur industrie. Depuis plus de dix ans, ils progressent surtout aux
dépens des économies sud européennes, notamment celle de la France.
Cette situation est perverse et sans issue.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Vous imaginez trois scénarios pour l'avenir proche. Le premier: Hollande est un nouveau Louis XVI. Que pourrait-il se passer?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">C'est
un scénario tout à fait plausible.<b> Face à l'échec quasi assuré des
mesures de redressement budgétaire, entre autre en raison de la
persistance d'un euro surévalué qui déprime l'activité, Hollande, tôt ou
tard, sera sommé de mettre en oeuvre de vraies mesures d'<a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/austerite" target="">austérité</a>.
Il ne le voudra ni ne le pourra car un nombre croissant de députés
socialistes préfèreront «tomber à gauche», </b>comme on disait sous la
Quatrième République. Du reste,<b> Hollande se dira que sa seule chance
d'être réélu est une <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/cohabitation" target="">cohabitation</a>. Comme le niveau atteint par le <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/front-national" target="">Front national </a>conduira
à de nombreuses triangulaires, la victoire de l'UMP sera étriquée. Si
la droite est maligne d'ailleurs, elle refusera de constituer un
gouvernement tant qu'Hollande n'aura pas démissionné. Bref, on sera en
pleine crise de régime avec un budget en capilotade. Rien ne s'opposera
plus à une remontée des taux d'intérêt et une spirale de troubles
politiques, économiques et sociaux. Les prétextes à une explosion ne
manqueront pas: regardez déjà du côté de la SNCF, des banlieues ou des
intermittents.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rêvons un peu: un de Gaulle se présente. Quelle feuille de route lui donnez-vous?</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Terminer
ce qui a été commencé en 1958 et 1962 avec les moyens nouveaux dont
dispose la démocratie. S'appuyer sur un recours régulier au référendum,
diminuer drastiquement le nombre d'élus et surtout empêcher que
quelqu'un vive toute sa vie de politique. Réformer la chose publique
pour réduire le poids de l'Etat, libéraliser au maximum le
fonctionnement de l'économie et, dans l'immédiat, taper du poing sur la
table pour que l'euro se déprécie d'au moins 40 % faute de quoi tout
ceci ne sera pas possible. Si nos partenaires refusent, il faudra
quitter l'euro, quelle qu'en soit la difficulté. C'est une question de
survie. Ou alors, préparez-vous à la guerre civile: je ne pense pas que <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/marine-le-pen" target="">Marine Le Pen </a>soit
en mesure de faire face à cette situation avec un programme inspiré de
celui du parti communiste des années 1970 et alors qu'une part très
importante de la population est prête à l'affronter durement.</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Le
scénario catastrophe: un régime autoritaire, fût-il éclairé, à savoir
un nouveau Napoléon III. En quoi cette hypothèse n'est pas à exclure?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>La
nature politique a horreur du vide. Il faut bien que la société
fonctionne et les esprits me semblent d'ailleurs, aujourd'hui,
étrangement en attente d'une reprise en main ferme par le pouvoir. Ce
n'est pas étranger au succès qu'avait connu <a href="http://plus.lefigaro.fr/tag/sarkozy" target="">Sarkozy</a>
en 2007. La France est restée frustrée de ce candidat dont le mandat
semble avoir bifurqué, un quart d'heure et cinquante mètres de marche
après son élection, d'une procession gaullienne sur les Champs Elysées à
un pot entre amis au Fouquet's.</b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-71720085041287968992014-03-07T09:42:00.000+00:002014-03-07T09:55:50.680+00:00giulietto chiesa: si deve vendere l'italia<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/Politica/2014/3/5/RETROSCENA-Giulietto-Chiesa-Renzi-lo-hanno-voluto-gli-Usa-per-vendere-l-Italia/475958/">http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/Politica/2014/3/5/RETROSCENA-Giulietto-Chiesa-Renzi-lo-hanno-voluto-gli-Usa-per-vendere-l-Italia/475958/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>RETROSCENA/ Giulietto Chiesa: Renzi lo hanno voluto gli Usa per vendere l'Italia </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 marzo 2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Intervista a Giulietto Chiesa</i></span></span></div>
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</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>"È
tutto spettacolo".</b> Così Giulietto Chiesa, giornalista e politico
storicamente di sinistra, commenta<b> l'operazione Renzi, spinto a Palazzo
Chigi dalla mano degli States per rispondere agli interessi di Wall
Street e per amicarsi Italia, preziosa pedina, nello scacchiere che vede
contrapposti gli Usa alla Germania della Merkel. "Io credo che Renzi
sia la persona più adatta per fare una politica filoamericana.</b>
D’altronde lo ha rivelato lui stesso quando si è paragonato a Tony
Blair, che è stato un servo degli Stati Uniti" continua Chiesa.<br /> <br /> </i><b>Dietro
l’ascesa di Matteo Renzi a Palazzo Chigi non c’è solo De Benedetti.
Pare che una spinta importante sia arrivata anche dagli States,
direttamente dalla Casa Bianca…</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Io
credo che Renzi sia la persona più adatta per fare una politica
filoamericana. D’altronde <b>lo ha rivelato lui stesso, senza esitazioni,
quando si è paragonato a Tony Blair</b>, che è stato un servo degli Stati
Uniti: se lo vuole imitare vuol dire che ha questa intenzione. <b>Del resto
il personaggio, per come si presenta, punta molto in alto e siccome i
padroni universali stanno là, dalle parti di Wall Street, immagino che
voglia puntare proprio verso quella direzione. È dunque facile capire
perché Obama è ben felice che Renzi sia al potere (e che possibilmente
vi rimanga).</b><br /> <br /> <b>Prima c’era Letta che è sempre stato etichettato come l’uomo delle banche; a un certo punto non è più andato bene. Perché?</b><br /> <br />
Enrico Letta era un uomo della vecchia guardia. Bisogna fare attenzione
ai particolari: <b>Letta, a differenza di Obama, è andato a Sochi. Queste
cose, per chi ha il comando, sono molto interessanti; si misurano tra di
loro con i dettagli. Letta ha fatto un errore a partecipare alle
Olimpiadi invernali in Russia: ma come? Cosa ci è andato a fare? Non si
devono fare queste cose... Renzi non ci sarebbe mai andato</b>, ecco la
differenza. <b>Da queste piccole cose si possono capire le preferenze dei
padroni del vapore, che un tempo erano più duttili e civili e adesso,
invece, stanno diventando sempre più prepotenti, pretendendo servitori
molto più fedeli.<br /> </b><br /> <b>Renzi, come uomo "scelto" dagli Stati
Uniti, va collocato nel puzzle dello scontro politico economico
Germania-Usa? Obama, più volte, ha criticato la linea Merkel…</b><br /> <br />
Io penso che<b> lo scontro Germania-Stati Uniti sia in corso da tempo ed
entrambi i Paesi fanno i propri rispettivi interessi. Siccome la
Germania è molto forte in Europa, se io fossi al posto di Obama
cercherei di accerchiarla, togliendole ogni aiutante di campo,
isolandola. È un’operazione, ripeto, in corso da tempo.</b> Per esempio...<br /> <br /> <b>Prego.</b><br /> <br />
<b>La guerra di Libia è stato un episodio in cui i grandi alleati
americani, Francia e Gran Bretagna, si sono messi in campo, mentre la
Merkel non è andata in Libia a combattere al fianco degli Usa e della
Nato. Il terzo protagonista europeo – di un certo peso economico e
storico – è l'Italia. Conquistare pienamente l'Italia in una visione
esclusivamente atlantica è una mossa che può avere un grande significato
per il futuro. E io credo che a Washington stiano pensando proprio a
questo.</b><br /> <br /><b>Dunque Renzi come pedina fondamentale in questo scacchiere di rapporti di forza?<br /> </b><br />
Io non ho un solo documento a sostegno di questa tesi – sono cose che
rimangono all’interno di colloqui segretissimi –, ma la mia impressione
generale è che <b>se Enrico Letta fosse uguale a Renzi non lo avrebbero
certo cambiato; lo hanno fatto perché Renzi è molto più filo-americano.<br /> </b><br /><b>Dovrà dare qualcosa in cambio?<br /> </b><br />
È al potere con tutti i vantaggi del caso. Lo scambio è: "tu stai al
potere e noi facciamo quello che vogliamo fare". In questi casi non è
mai questione di gratitudine: quanto dai, tanto avrai…<br /> <br /> <b>Qualche settimana fa il <i>Financial Times</i> e il <i>Wall Street Journal</i>
hanno speso belle parole per Renzi. Ultimamente il fondo (americano)
Blackstone ha acquistato partecipazioni in Versace e Intesa San Paolo e
il magnate (americano) George Soros il 5% di Immobiliare grande
distribuzione. È un caso?<br /> </b><br /> Mi sembra che, appunto,
siano tutti elementi che vadano in questa direzione. I grandi
proprietari universali – come li chiama Luciano Gallino – si consultano,
si parlano e si danno segnali. Ecco, questi sono tutti segnali in
questo senso: maggiore simpatia e sicurezza verso un governo (meno
tedesco e più americano) che dà garanzie più precise e complete.<br /> <br /> <b>Quello degli Stati Uniti potrebbe essere una sorta di nuovo "Piano Marshall"?<br /> </b><br />
Ma qui non c'è alcuna politica di investimenti a difesa della libertà.<b>
Adesso si devono fare le privatizzazioni, a questo starà pensando il
nostro premier. Si deve vendere l'Italia: questo è il progetto. I grossi
pescecani della finanza aspettano proprio questo. </b>A dire il vero, lo
aveva detto anche Letta, ma siamo al discorso di prima: ci sono quelli
che eseguono gli ordini senza tirare le briglie e chi – poco gradito –
le tira. Semmai...<br /> <br /> <b>Dica.<br /> </b><br /> <b>L’unico
Piano Marshall possibile in questo momento sarebbe cambiare le regole
della finanza internazionale: mettere fuori legge gli off-shore,
congelare per i prossimi 50 anni un'ingente massa di derivati e così
via. Insomma, tutta una serie di medicine – inevitabili e inesorabili –
che naturalmente modificherebbero il quadro degli equilibri finanziari a
svantaggio di Wall Street, motivo per il quale non si faranno mai.</b><br /> <br /> <b>Cosa si farà invece?<br /> </b><br />
All’ordine del giorno, ribadisco,<b> ci sono le immediate privatizzazioni
di quasi tutto il patrimonio industriale (e anche immobiliare e
artistico-culturale) italiano: è questo che ci dobbiamo aspettare
secondo la strategia dei 50 miliardi del Fiscal Compact. Gli orizzonti
sono questi. Renzi è qui per eseguire i compiti che furono assegnati a
Mario Monti.</b><br /> <br /> <b>È un bene o un male per l’Italia?<br /> </b><br />
Se ci si riferisce alla finanza internazionale è un bene, ma se ci si
riferisce alla condizione umana e materiale del popolo italiano è un
male. Non può essere un fatto positivo, la gente si aspetta tutt'altro. <b>
Naturalmente molti non hanno ancora capito, perché le dinamiche
mediatiche con le quali si promuovono queste operazioni convincono
milioni di persone che questo sia un uomo nuovo, giovane e affascinante
che mette otto donne del governo.</b> Figuriamoci...<br /> <br /> <b>Il suo giudizio è dunque negativo.<br /> </b><br />
<b>È tutto uno spettacolo, e la gente, che non ne conosce le regole, ci
casca. Poi piange, a danno fatto. Nell'immediato Renzi prenderà un sacco
di voti, tutti dovuti alla speranza disperata della gente di cavarsela.
Una volta per svelare gli altarini ci volevano 5 o 6 anni, oggi in
molto meno tempo: fra un anno saremo già lì a fare i conti.
L’accelerazione della crisi rende il tutto molto trasparente..</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fabio Franchini</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-50234004908869830882014-02-13T22:54:00.001+00:002014-02-13T23:00:17.247+00:00italia: e ora legalizzare la cannabis<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ilmanifesto.it/una-sentenza-stupefacente/">http://ilmanifesto.it/una-sentenza-stupefacente/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.radicali.it/rassegna-stampa/una-sentenza-stupefacente">http://www.radicali.it/rassegna-stampa/una-sentenza-stupefacente</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Una sentenza stupefacente</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eleonora Martini,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12.2.2014 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Incostituzionale. <b>La legge Fini-Giovanardi è stata spazzata via dalla Consulta</b> e non, come avrebbe dovuto essere, dalla politica, dopo otto anni di pene abnormi che nessuno potrà ripagare. <b>Otto anni di sofferenze per migliaia di persone entrate nel circuito penale e sanzionatorio, recluse, morte perfino, a causa del furore ideologico delle destre e dell’ignavia del centrosinistra (solo il ministro Paolo Ferrero, con l’ultimo governo Prodi, tentò inutilmente di cancellarla), e a tutto beneficio dei narcotrafficanti. La Corte costituzionale ieri ha dichiarato illegittima la legge 49/2006 «per violazione dell’art. 77, secondo comma, della Costituzione, che regola la procedura di conversione dei decreti-legge»</b>. Un quadro normativo che, come ha già ricordato il manifesto in questi giorni, venne introdotto forzatamente — ricorrendo al voto di fiducia — <b>durante l’iter parlamentare di conversione del decreto sulle Olimpiadi invernali di Torino con gli articoli 4–bis e 4–vicies ter, dichiarati incostituzionali ieri dagli ermellini, e che riscrisse completamente gli articoli 73, 13 e 14 del Testo unico sugli stupefacenti, il dpr 309/90</b>. Per entrare nei dettagli bisognerà attendere le motivazioni della Corte che saranno scritte dal giudice relatore Marta Cartabia, ma è chiaro fin d’ora che<b> l’equiparazione delle sostanze leggere a quelle pesanti, poste in un’unica tabella nella Fini-Giovanardi, e delle condotte — la detenzione per uso personale assimilata allo spaccio – sono ormai carta straccia. </b>Perché <b>torna a rivivere la pre-esistente normativa, la Jervolino-Vassalli emendata dal referendum promosso dai Radicali nella primavera del 1993, secondo la quale non è punibile la detenzione a scopo di uso personale, qualsiasi sia il quantitativo (venne abolita la «dose media giornaliera» che era la soglia per la configurazione del reato di spaccio) e per qualsiasi sostanza</b>. La coltivazione di marijuana però resta ancora un reato punibile con sanzioni penali elevate, perché anche per la Jervolino-Vassalli viene equiparata allo spaccio.<b> Le pene però sono ridotte da 2 a 6 anni di carcere (per la Fini-Giovanardi erano da 6 a 22), mentre per il traffico di cocaina, eroina o droghe sintetiche sono previsti dagli 8 ai 20 anni di reclusione.</b> Ora si spera che la differenziazione dei reati e delle pene faccia tornare rapidamente ad un mercato separato tra sostanze leggere e pesanti, come era prima del febbraio 2006. Anche se <b>in Parlamento giacciono già alcuni disegni di legge — in particolare quello del deputato di Sel, Daniele Farina, che prevede la depenalizzazione delle droghe leggere, giunto in commissione Giustizia — la segretaria dei Radicali italiani, Rita Bernardini, sollecita la legalizzazione della cannabis. «Per quanto mi riguarda, da pluripregiudicata come Pannella e altri radicali, continuerò a disobbedire fino a che i malati e i consumatori saranno costretti dalla legge a rifornirsi al mercato criminale», aggiunge Bernardini che si è auto denunciata a Foggia per la coltivazione di alcune piante di marijuana senza però aver ottenuto l’arresto. </b>D’altronde, se <b>Matteo Renzi</b> mantiene la parola —<b> «Legalizzare l’erba? Prima via la Fini-Giovanardi», </b>aveva detto poco più di un mese fa — i tempi sono maturi. <b>Nel Pd, per esempio, in molti hanno chiesto ad Enrico Letta di giustificare la scelta di schierare l’avvocatura dello Stato davanti alla Consulta a difesa della legge più carcerogena di questi tempi.</b> Basti pensare infatti che circa<b> il 40% dei detenuti, 24.273 persone al 31 dicembre 2013 sono in carcere per violazione della legge incostituzionale. Mentre 8.657 sono in custodia cautelare e 59 internate, come risulta dalla relazione al Parlamento della ministra di Giustizia, Annamaria Cancellieri. Numeri più o meno stabili dal 2007 in poi: secondo i dati del Dap, il picco di detenuti per reati legati agli articoli 73 e 74 della legge si è avuto nel 2011, con 27.459 reclusi. Antigone però stima che attualmente i carcerati per detenzione personale di droghe leggere siano circa 10 mila.</b> Cosa succederà a questo esercito di persone? Secondo alcuni giuristi, come l’avvocato Michele Passione dell’Osservatorio carcere dell’Unione delle Camere penali italiane, non c’è nessun automatismo nell’esecuzione della sentenza della Consulta, ma<b> i condannati in violazione della legge Fini-Giovanardi potrebbero chiedere il ricalcolo della pena con la normativa pre esistente. Non la pensa così l’avvocato Giovanni Maria Flick (vedi intervista in queste pagine). Un lavoro che ricadrebbe sulle spalle dei giudici dell’esecuzione, senza dover ricorrere a un nuovo dibattimento, ma che comunque intaserebbe ulteriormente i tribunali. Ecco perché i Radicali — e non solo — tornano a chiedere l’amnistia e l’indulto, «ora necessari più che mai».</b></span></div>
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per abrogare con un referendum la legge Fini-Giovanardi, su cui
ora e' intervenuta la Corte costituzionale, che pero' ha
sollevato soprattutto questioni che non riguardano il merito
della normativa".</b> Marco Pannella mette i puntini sulle i e
rimprovera<b> "il 'Grande Renzi'" che "invece, ostentatamente, non
ha firmato i nostri referendum che avremmo potuto vincere,
affermando che e' il Parlamento a dover decidere". E
all'attuale segretario Pd tocca questa reprimenda: "Proprio
come fece il Pci all'epoca del referendum sul divorzio, perche'
per il Pci il referendum era una jattura".</b> Sempre dai microfoni
di Radio Radicale, intervistato sulla sentenza con cui la Corte
Costituzionale ha bocciato la legge Fini-Giovanardi sulla
droga, <b>Pannella ricorda, inoltre, che "tra le firme raccolte
dai Radicali sugli ultimi quesiti referendari c'e' stata,
invece, anche quella di Silvio Berlusconi". </b>"Nel 1993, quando
vinse il nostro referendum sulla legge Jervolino-Vassalli, su
cui avevamo raccolto le firme grazie al Coordinamento radicale
antiproibizionista, si espressero a favore di un appello per il
'si'' anche personalita' della Lega come Calderoli, per non
parlare di esponenti del Partito liberale come Alfredo Biondi e
Paolo Battistuzzi.<b> Ora che ci si interroga sulla eventuale
'staffetta' tra Letta e Renzi - e' la considerazione dello
storico leader Radicale - c'e' davvero qualcuno in grado di
dire quali siano le differenze tra visioni e obiettivi? Come ha
detto giustamente il presidente Napolitano, e' il Pd che deve
decidere, ma la verita' e' che il confronto e' sul nulla".</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>"L'andamento della direzione del Pd costituisce la prova di un disastro: non c'è nulla di quello che, nell'esercizio di supremo garante del diritto e dei diritti nel nostro Paese, il presidente della Repubblica ha indicato non come doveri ma obblighi rispetto ai quali non c'è un solo giorno da perdere"</b>. Lo ha detto<b> Marco Pannella</b> a Radio Radicale. "<b>Non c'è</b> in tutto il dibattito<b> un solo accenno</b> a questo<b>, al fatto che il nostro stato è da decenni </b>considerato dalle istanze democratiche internazionali e dalla giurisdizione - ha proseguito Pannella - <b>uno stato tecnicamente in flagranza criminale rispetto a tutto il diritto positivo contemporaneo e della Costituzione italiana". </b>"E' un disastro (...) c'è un requiem che va registrato, quello che ha recitato il grande maieuta fiorentino, il compagno Matteo Renzi che ha rifiutato la firma ai dodici referendum civili, democratici, dei quali Berlusconi aveva pubblicamente dichiarato, salvo poi il suo partito fotterlo anche lui", conclude Pannella.</span></div>
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di tutti i diritti positivi teoricamente vigenti , da quelli
internazionale, a quello europeo a quello nazionale”. </b>Lo ha detto questa
sera a Radio Radicale Marco Pannella</span></div>
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<b>Shulamit
Aloni, a longtime left-wing Israeli minister and Parliament member who
was an early champion of civil liberties, challenger of religious
hegemony and outspoken opponent of <a class="meta-loc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/israel/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about Israel.">Israel</a>’s occupation of the <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/palestinians/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Palestinians.">Palestinian</a> territories, died Friday</b> at her home in Kfar Shmaryahu, a Tel Aviv suburb. She was 86.</div>
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One of her sons, Nimrod, said she had not been seriously ill, “just very old.” </div>
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Mrs.
Aloni, an elected lawmaker for 28 years, was the author of six books,
including one of Israel’s earliest texts on civics. She was awarded the
prestigious Israel Prize in 2000 “for her struggle to right injustices
and for raising the standard of equality.”</div>
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<b>In
2008, at age 80, she published “Israel: Democracy or Ethnocracy?” a
harsh assessment of her homeland. She wrote on the cover, “The state is
returning to the ghetto, to Orthodox Judaism, and the rule of the
fundamentalist rabbinate is becoming more profound.” </b></div>
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<b>Reuven
Rivlin, a Parliament member from the conservative Likud Party,
described Mrs. Aloni on Friday as “the last politician in her generation
who said what she thought.” But her outspokenness also made for
problems.</b></div>
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In
1992, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin rebuked her for questioning the
biblical version of Creation and speaking in the same breath of the
Hebrew matriarch Rachel and the prostitute Rahav. The next year, after
Mrs. Aloni’s challenging of religious political leaders provoked a
coalition crisis, Rabin demoted her from education minister to minister
of communications and science and technology. </div>
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<b>After
Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Muslims at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in
1994, she was among the first to call for the expulsion of hundreds of
Jewish settlers from the West Bank city of Hebron. She also said that
high school trips to Holocaust sites were turning Israeli youths into
xenophobes, and she incited outrage by holding official meetings abroad
in nonkosher restaurants.</b></div>
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<b>Former
political allies and opponents alike lauded her on Friday as a
boundary-breaking pioneer for peace, “a moral compass,” “a special
breed,” “an inspiration for all women” and a “pillar of fire.”</b></div>
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“It
was impossible not to admire such a combative woman who fought for what
she believed in and was prepared to pay the price,” said Geula Cohen,
who founded a right-wing faction and frequently faced off with her in
Parliament. </div>
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Yossi
Sarid, who in 1996 successfully challenged Mrs. Aloni for leadership of
the far-left Meretz Party, called her “a phenomenon” who feared
“absolutely nothing.”</div>
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“How
did we first become acquainted with civil rights? How did we first
discover the occupation?” Mr. Sarid, now a political analyst, asked
rhetorically Friday morning on Israel Radio. “She wanted to change the
national and social agenda, and she did so, on her own, by virtue of her
own capabilities, and attained great and unparalleled achievements.”</div>
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Although
some sources say she was 85, her son Nimrod said she was 86 and was
born in December 1927. Born Shulamit Adler in Tel Aviv to Polish
immigrant parents, she fought in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. </div>
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<b>She
started her political career with the Labor-Alignment faction, then
helped create the Citizens’ Rights Movement and, later, Meretz.</b> She was
married for 36 years to Reuven Aloni, who died in 1988. She is survived
by their three sons, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.</div>
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Her
death was a reminder of the decline of the left among Jews in Israel.
Labor’s last prime minister was Ehud Barak in 2001, and Labor and Meretz
combined hold 21 of Parliament’s 120 seats today. When Mrs. Aloni left
elected office, they had 56. </div>
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“The pillar of fire has been extinguished,” the advocacy group Peace Now lamented in a statement. </div>
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Carol Sutherland contributed reporting.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A version of this article appears in print on January 25, 2014, on page A18 of the <span itemprop="printEdition">New York edition</span> with the headline: Shulamit Aloni, 86, Former Israeli Minister.</span><br />
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In 2000,<b> she was awarded the Israel Prize for her lifetime
achievements and contribution to Israeli society, despite protests from
Israel's religious establishment.
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awarding her the prize, <b>the committee of judges praised her for being a
voice for citizens, for "struggling to repair injustice and hoist the
flag of equality between the different peoples and faiths in Israel."
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<b>"The state is returning to the ghetto, to Orthodox
Judaism, and the rule of the fundamentalist Rabbinate is only growing
stronger."
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<b>She
lamented that the "blooming, free and enlightened Israel that prided
itself on research and progress now bows before the rabbis, Haredim and
settlers, who demand everything for themselves in the name of religion." </b><br />
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She was one of the first to make us aware of the occupation. That untold
region beyond the hills of darkness, in which only a few ever bother to
take an interest.<b> The day will come when the state of occupied
territories and occupying settlers will consume the state of Israel,
which will then cast off the form of democracy and take the shape of
apartheid. </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a speech<b> at a
conference in Germany on regional food security,</b> he called for the
<b>creation of a more local model of food production and distribution.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Addressing
the Langenburg Forum at Langenburg Castle in the state of
Baden-Württemberg, he said there was not sufficient resilience in the
system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"It may appear that things are well,"</b> he said. <b>"Big global
corporations may appear to be prospering out of operating on a global
monocultural scale, but, as I hope you have seen, if you drill down into
what is actually happening, things are not so healthy.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"Our
present approach is rapidly mining resilience out of our food system and
threatening to leave it ever more vulnerable to the various external
shocks that are becoming more varied, extreme and frequent."</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charles
said<b> the drive to make food cheaper for consumers and to earn companies
bigger profits was sucking real value out of the food production system
– value that was critical to its sustainability.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He said:<b> "I am
talking here about obvious things like the vitality of the soil and
local ecosystems, the quality and availability of fresh water and so on,
but also about less obvious things, like local employment and people's
health. It is, as I fear you know only too well, a complex business.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"The
aggressive search for cheaper food has been described as a 'drive to
the bottom', </b>which I am afraid is taking the farmers with it. <b>They are
being driven into the ground by the prices they are forced to expect for
their produce and this has led to some very worrying shortcuts.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"<b>The
recent horsemeat scandals are surely just one example, revealing a
disturbing situation where even the biggest retailers seem not to know
where their supplies are coming from</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"It has also led to a very
destructive effect on farming. We are losing farmers fast. Young people
do not want to go into such an unrewarding profession.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"In the UK,
I have been warning of this for some time and recently set up
apprenticeship schemes to try to alleviate the problem, but the fact
remains that at the moment the average age of British farmers is 58, and
rising."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Pressure to produce cheap food also created social and economic problems, he said.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"In
the UK, as elsewhere – but particularly, I think, in the US – the
consequences of this are ever more apparent in the deteriorating state
of our public health,"</b> Charles said.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"We all know that type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related conditions are rapidly on the increase.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"The
public bill for dealing with these is already massive and I am told it
could become completely unaffordable if we do not see a shift in
emphasis. And, of course, it will be cities that carry the heaviest part
of that burden."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The prince asked if he was alone in wondering <b>
how it was that those who were farming sustainably, for the long term,
by operating in a way that reduced pollution and contamination of the
natural environment to a minimum and maximised the health of soil,
biodiverse ecosystems and humanity, were then penalised.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He said:<b> "They find that their produce is considered too expensive and too 'niche market' to be available to everyone.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"How
is it, then, that systems of farming which do precisely the opposite –
with increasingly dire and damaging effects on both the terrestrial and
marine environments, not to mention long-term human health – are able to
sell their products in mass markets at prices that in no way reflect
the immense and damaging cost to the environment and human health?</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"A
cost that then has to be paid for over and over again elsewhere –
chiefly, in all probability, by our unfortunate children and
grandchildren, whose welfare I happen to care about."</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The prince
added: "So, as I hope you can see,<b> the success of a globalised system is
being subsidised by many complex, long-term problems that contribute to
a potentially toxic mix, making the food it produces not cheap at all.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"In
fact, it is very expensive. The only reason it appears cheap in the
shops is because the costs either fall somewhere else, or they are being
stored up for the future."</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>It was necessary for food to be
produced in a more sustainable and eco-friendly manner and for food
systems to be less globally dependent and more locally inter-connected,
he said.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The prince was invited to address the delegates by his
distant relative Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who helped
organise the event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/815848/-entre-tripoli-et-qousseir-un-lien-occulte.html">http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/815848/-entre-tripoli-et-qousseir-un-lien-occulte.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Entre Tripoli et Qousseir, un lien occulte </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scarlett HADDAD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">24/05/2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="tagline-author" style="font-size: 13px;">Éclairage</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Depuis
plus de cinq jours, Tripoli est plongée dans une véritable guerre qui
ne veut pas encore dire son nom.</b> Au début, <b>les médias ont voulu croire
qu’il s’agissait des rixes habituelles entre deux quartiers en conflit
depuis plusieurs décennies</b>, sur fond <b>de réaction impulsive à la bataille
de Qousseir et aux succès enregistrés par l’armée syrienne, aidée par
le Hezbollah.</b> Mais cinq jours plus tard,<b> il faut revoir cette approche.
Ce qui se passe à Tripoli n’est ni une rixe banale ni une réaction
impulsive, mais bien un des épisodes de la guerre sans merci qui se
déroule en Syrie.</b> <b>Selon un notable de la ville, les seuls qui ne veulent
pas la guerre sont les Tripolitains</b>. Sinon, <b>toutes les parties locales
et régionales poussent vers les affrontements.</b> Et la voix de la
population est toujours celle qu’on entend le moins, quand les canons
commencent à vomir leurs engins de mort et de destruction...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Les affrontements à Tripoli ont donc commencé avec le début de
l’avancée de l’armée syrienne à Qousseir,</b> mais il ne s’agit <b>pas</b> d’<b>une
réaction impulsive.</b> <b>C’est plutôt une riposte bien étudiée qui a
plusieurs niveaux de lectures. </b>Selon <b>un cheikh « neutre » de Tripoli</b>,
une des premières raisons des derniers affrontements résiderait dans le
fait que <b>les groupes islamistes de la ville ont envoyé des combattants à
Qousseir dont bon nombre d’entre eux sont morts. Il faudrait</b> donc
<b>enflammer les esprits pour justifier ces morts et aiguiser les haines
pour empêcher leurs familles de se poser des questions. Cela, c’est le
premier niveau.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b>Au deuxième niveau, les affrontements de Tripoli auraient une dimension
politique interne. </b>Ils seraient ainsi <b>destinés à faire pression sur les
tractations politiques pour tenter d’obtenir la formation d’un nouveau
gouvernement en contrepartie de la prorogation du mandat du Parlement,</b>
car dans l’esprit de certaines forces influentes à Tripoli, <b>la
prorogation du mandat parlementaire serait une concession au tandem
chiite Amal et le Hezbollah, et à Nabih Berry en particulier, que le 14
Mars ne veut plus réélire à la tête du Parlement s’il remporte les
élections législatives</b>. Il faut donc une <b>contrepartie</b> qui serait <b>la
formation d’un gouvernement sans le 8 Mars et ses alliés, que ces
derniers bloquent actuellement en réclamant un gouvernement regroupant
toutes les parties avec une participation proportionnelle au poids
parlementaire de chacune d’elles.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Le troisième niveau de lecture est plus régional et expliquerait
les combats persistants à Tripoli par une volonté arabe de punir l’armée
syrienne et son allié le Hezbollah en faisant du Nord une région hors
du contrôle de l’État et en particulier de l’armée libanaise.</b> Ce serait <b>
pour cette raison</b> que dans ce « round », <b>les combattants ont sciemment
tiré sur l’armée libanaise qui tentait de s’interposer entre les
belligérants et de répondre aux sources des tirs, faisant plusieurs
morts parmi les soldats.</b> <b>Les combattants de Bab el-Tebbaneh ont ainsi
commencé par tirer en direction de Jabal Mohsen, l’enclave alaouite de
la ville</b>, pour canaliser la colère de la rue sunnite après la percée de
l’armée syrienne. Bien entendu, <b>les combattants de Jabal Mohsen ont
riposté, car ils ont beau être encerclés, ils n’en sont pas moins armés
et bien préparés à toutes les éventualités. L’armée a tenté d’intervenir
et elle est devenue la cible des combattants. Il ne s’agit pourtant pas
d’une bavure, mais d’une attaque systématique qui n’a qu’une
explication : la volonté de neutraliser l’autorité de l’armée à Tripoli
et peut-être dans tout le Nord</b>. <b>Les combattants de Jabal Mohsen ont
poursuivi leur riposte en lançant des obus sur le cœur de la ville avec
un message clair : vous pouvez peut-être tenter d’envahir Jabal Mohsen,
mais cela vous coûtera très cher. En même temps, ils ont poussé l’armée à
assumer ses responsabilités en imposant le retour au calme. Mais les
tirs contre la troupe se sont poursuivis, accompagnés d’une campagne
politique contre elle, menée par des figures islamistes qui ont contesté
à la fois son rôle et sa mission.</b> Au point <b>d’ailleurs</b> que, <b>pour éviter
d’être la cible des combattants, l’armée a donné l’ordre de retirer les
soldats des rues. En dépit des déclarations officielles, la couverture
politique qui lui est donnée semble insuffisante et il est clair que les
responsables politiques de la ville l’assurent de leur appui, tout en
laissant en douce la voie libre aux combattants, croient savoir les
milieux proches du 8 Mars.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Tripoli contre Qousseir, ce serait, donc, aux yeux de certaines
sources de la ville, l’équation actuellement en voie de réalisation. Il
s’agirait donc de livrer la capitale du Nord et sans doute le Akkar aux
groupes islamistes appuyant l’opposition syrienne, et la fameuse zone
tampon que l’opposition a tenté d’obtenir depuis le déclenchement des
troubles en Syrie, il y a deux ans, serait ainsi en train d’être
réalisée au Liban. Pour cela, il est important de neutraliser le rôle de
l’armée libanaise qui contrôle encore les frontières et possède une
présence importante dans l’ensemble du Nord.</b> Toutefois, <b>cette fameuse
zone tampon ne serait plus vraiment utile aujourd’hui, puisque, de
l’autre côté de la frontière, c’est l’armée syrienne qui a repris le
contrôle des régions du littoral jusqu’au rif de Qousseir</b>, laquelle est
le pendant de Ersal dans la Békaa.<b> Sauf si l’on veut commencer à créer
des troubles dans le pays alaouite qui s’étend au-delà de la frontière
nord du côté du littoral. Ce qui serait un développement nouveau dans la
crise syrienne et pourrait entraîner une riposte directe de l’armée
syrienne au Liban.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nous n’en sommes pas là et <b>il est certain que les groupes
islamistes de Tripoli et du Nord ne veulent pas d’un tel scénario. Dans
ce cas, à quoi servent les combats de Tripoli? À exercer des pressions
sur le Hezbollah pour qu’il retire ses hommes de Qousseir, affirment
certaines figures islamistes, qui annoncent même que les combats à
Tripoli se poursuivront aussi longtemps que dureront ceux de Qousseir.
Pourtant, selon ses propres dires, le Hezbollah est engagé dans un
combat stratégique.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Une drôle d’<b>équation qui plonge chaque jour un peu plus le Liban dans le feu syrien...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May 24, 2013 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hussein Dakroub, Niamh Fleming-Farrell Read</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BEIRUT: <b>Joining the fight in Syria may be part of Hezbollah’s strategy to defend the resistance, political analysts have told The Daily Star</b>, but <b>the party’s involvement, regardless of the outcome of the conflict there, is likely to alter Sunni-Shiite relations in Lebanon irreversibly. Analyst Qassem Kassir contends Hezbollah has a clear strategic goal, in line with its larger objectives,</b> in joining the fight in Syria. “The<b> fighting in Qusair is not a gamble by Hezbollah. The party considers it is fighting a strategic battle in Qusair to defend the resistance,</b>” Kassir, an expert on Islamist movements, told The Daily Star. <b>“Hezbollah has a strategic vision which says that what is happening in Syria is an international battle for Syria’s position. Hezbollah considers protecting Syria similar to protecting the resistance and the party’s arms supply route,”</b> he continued. <b>“Hezbollah is fighting to foil attempts to take Syria to the American-Israeli axis.” </b>For a fifth consecutive day Thursday, Syrian government troops backed by elite Hezbollah fighters fought rebels in the strategic Syrian town of Qusair just 10 kilometers from the Lebanese border. Thus far, the party’s losses have been heavy, with bodies returning to hometowns in Lebanon’s north, Bekaa Valley and south. <b> Kamel Wazne of the Center for American Strategic Studies believes Hezbollah’s participation in Syria is part of a “calculated gamble.” </b>He contends that<b> the war currently playing out in Syria between Iran and its allies and the U.S.-Israeli axis is one that would eventually have come to Hezbollah in Lebanon. “The war that is taking place in Syria is the war that should be happening in Lebanon,” Wazne said. “They [Hezbollah] took the fight to Syria to battle it out.” </b> But, while in Wazne’s estimate, <b>Hezbollah is “preventing the war from moving to Lebanon,</b>” <b>other analysts say </b>even though widespread <b>civil strife is not imminent on Lebanese soil, lasting repercussions from Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s party’s involvement in Syria will eventually be felt.</b> <b>Hilal Khashan, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut, agreed that Hezbollah’s actions in Syria have “created a lasting wedge between them and Lebanese Sunnis.” “Irrespective of the outcome of the Syrian conflict, Sunni-Shiite relations in Lebanon will never be the same again,” </b>he said. <b>“Historical wounds have been opened.” </b> Even though sectarian clashes in the northern city of Tripoli had Thursday morning killed 16 since Sunday,<b> Hisham Jaber, a retired Lebanese Army general and the current director of Beirut-based think tank the Middle East Center for Political Studies and Research,</b> told The Daily Star <b>he does not think the present divisions will develop into a military conflict. “Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria will further fuel sectarian divisions,”</b> Jaber admitted, explaining that<b> “Lebanon is sharply divided between Sunnis who are against the Syrian regime and Shiites who support it.” </b> But, he continued, <b>“I don’t think that this division will escalate into a military conflict.” </b> Jaber and other analysts contend the appetite for larger scale strife in Lebanon is curbed on a number of levels, with <b>both local and international political actors committed to avoiding any large scale escalation at present. </b> Wazne pointed out that <b>“at this moment there is agreement between [Lebanon’s] political parties to keep the security situation under great care,” while Paul Salem of the Carnegie Center, Beirut, said Lebanon’s big international patrons are keen to maintain stability here. </b>Jaber elaborated on this: <b>“There is an international decision to prevent a civil war in Lebanon for now and to keep the status quo as long as the war is raging in neighboring Syria,” he said, adding that Saudi Arabia and Iran, which wield great influence in Lebanon, have no interest in the outbreak of strife in the country.</b> Meanwhile <b>Talal Atrissi, a Lebanese University Lecturer with expertise on Iran and the Middle East </b>explained to The Daily Star: <b>“Saudi Arabia has no interest in seeing the situation in Lebanon spiral out of control or slide into Sunni-Shiite strife. A sectarian strife in Lebanon will affect the kingdom where there is a Shiite population.” </b> “Despite Hezbollah’s participation in the Syrian fighting, particularly in Qusair,<b> there are no fears of an outbreak of Sunni-Shiite strife in Lebanon because there is a regional and international decision against destabilizing Lebanon,” Atrissi added</b>. And while analysts generally don’t deem civil war in Lebanon an immediate threat, they do express concern over the repercussions of the outcome of the Syria conflict on Lebanon. <b> Should the Assad regime collapse, Jaber, the retired army general, cautioned that civil war will result in Lebanon and other countries.</b> <b>“If the [Assad] regime falls and the opposition and jihadist groups take control of most of the country, a civil war will erupt in Syria that would lead to the country’s partition,” Jaber said. “The civil war would spread to Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. The situation would be out of control.” </b>However,<b> if Assad prevails in Syria, Khashan warned that the “the 21st century might become the golden age of Hezbollah.” </b> “Should Asad’s regime prevail in Syria, <b>Hezbollah’s preponderance in Lebanon will consolidate and it would become virtually impossible to contest it,” Khashan said. “Such a development would place Hezbollah one good step forward toward the installation of an Islamic state in Lebanon.” </b> He added that the party had never disavowed this objective. Meanwhile,<b> Carnegie’s Salem wondered if the only fault line likely to be drawn by this latest Hezbollah action was between Sunnis and Shiites. Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria may also, he speculated, have an impact within the Shiite community in Lebanon, which is now being “asked to fight a different war on a different territory, in a different situation” to that which it traditionally committed to. So far, Salem said, the Shiite community has absorbed Hezbollah’s decision to become involved in Syria, but he questioned how long their tolerance can endure.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on May 24, 2013, on page 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Israël prêt à attaquer en cas de chute du régime Assad... </b></span><br />
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23/05/2013<br />
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<b>Israël est prêt à attaquer la Syrie, en cas de chute du président Bachar
el-Assad, pour empêcher que des armes perfectionnées ne tombent entre
les mains de groupes jihadistes ou du Hezbollah,</b> <b>a déclaré hier le chef
de l’armée de l’air israélienne. « Dans l’hypothèse où Israël devrait
affronter le Hezbollah et ses soutiens iraniens, a ajouté le général
Amir Eshel, il faut s’attendre à un conflit long et douloureux. Nous
devons être prêts à affronter tous les scénarios, avec seulement
quelques heures de préavis. » </b>Des avions israéliens ont attaqué des
objectifs en Syrie au moins trois fois cette année pour détruire, selon
des sources proches des services de renseignements, des armes
antiaériennes et des missiles sol-sol destinés aux miliciens chiites du
Hezbollah. Par ailleurs, un haut responsable du ministère israélien de
la Défense a assuré hier que la « stabilité » sur le plateau du Golan
occupé et la « force de dissuasion de l’armée israélienne » dans le
secteur sont intactes malgré la multiplication récente des tirs syriens.</div>
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<strong>Not even
a year ago, German intelligence predicted Syrian autocrat Bashar
Assad's regime would soon collapse. Now, the agency instead believes the
rebels are in trouble. Government troops are set to make significant
advances, it predicts.</strong></div>
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<b>Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has fundamentally changed its view of the <a class="spTextlinkInt" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/syrian-city-of-zabadani-embodies-absurdity-of-civil-war-a-896009.html" title="ongoing civil war in Syria">ongoing civil war in Syria</a>.
SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that the BND now believes the Syrian
military of autocrat Bashar Assad is more stable than it has been in a
long time and is capable of undertaking successful operations against
rebel units at will. BND head Gerhard Schindler informed select
politicians of the agency's new assessment in a secret meeting.</b></div>
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It is a notable about-face. As recently as last summer, S<b>chindler
reported to government officials and parliamentarians that he felt the
Assad regime would collapse early in 2013. He repeated the view in
interviews with the media.</b></div>
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<b>At the time,</b> the BND pointed to the <b>Syrian military's precarious
supply situation and large numbers of desertions that included members
of the officer core. German intelligence spoke of the "end phase of the
regime."</b></div>
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<b>Since then, however, the situation has changed dramaticall</b>y, the BND
believes. Schindler used graphics and maps to demonstrate that<b> Assad's
troops once again possess effective supply lines to ensure sufficient
quantities of weapons and other materiel. Fuel supplies for tanks and
military aircraft, which had proved troublesome, are once again
available, Schindler reported. The new situation allows Assad's troops
to combat spontaneous rebel attacks and even retake positions that were
previously lost. The BND does not believe that Assad's military is
strong enough to defeat the rebels, but it can do enough to improve its
position in the current stalemate.</b></div>
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The assessment appears to be consistent with recent reports from
Syria, where <b>government troops have been able to regain the upper hand
in the region stretching from Damascus to Homs, including coastal areas
near Homs.</b> Furthermore,<b> fighters loyal to Assad have expelled rebel
fighters from several districts on the edge of Damascus and cut off
their supply lines to the south. Currently, the regime is in the process
of severing rebel supply lines to the west.</b></div>
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Meanwhile, the BND believes that <b>rebel forces, which include several
groups of Islamist fighters with ties to al-Qaida, are facing extreme
difficulties. Schindler reported that different rebel groups are
fighting with each other to attain supremacy in individual regions.
Furthermore, regime troops have managed to cut supply lines for weapons
and evacuation routes for wounded fighters. Each new battle weakens the
militias further</b>, the BND chief said.</div>
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<b>Should the conflict continue as it has in recent weeks, says
Schindler, government troops could retake the entire southern half of
the country by the end of 2013. That would leave only the north for
insurgent fighters, where Kurdish rebels have tighten control over their
areas</b>.</div>
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<b>Lowering Expectations</b></div>
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Schindler's report on the state of the rebel groups allows little room
for hope that serious talks between the insurgents and the Assad regime
will take place soon<b>. The BND says there is no functional chain of
command between opposition leaders abroad and the militias inside of
Syria. The fighters on the ground simply don't recognize the political
leadership, </b>says the BND.</div>
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The United Nations is currently doing all it can to encourage both
sides to engage in peace talks in Geneva, though no date has been set. <a class="spTextlinkInt" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-german-foreign-minister-guido-westerwelle-a-900611.html" title="German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle">German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle</a> is once again travelling to the Middle East on Wednesday to plan for such negotiations.</div>
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At a meeting of the "Friends of Syria" in the Jordanian capital of Amman, Westerwelle is set to meet with <a class="spTextlinkInt" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-red-line-that-could-pull-obama-into-the-syrian-civil-war-essay-a-899332.html" title="US Secretary of State John Kerry">US Secretary of State John Kerry</a>
among others. But over the weekend, he sought to lower expectations,
saying that it isn't clear yet whether the Assad regime is even prepared
to engage in talks.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Assad preparing missile strike against Tel Aviv in case attacked again</b></span> </div>
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<b>The Syrian army is deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles aiming at Israel in the aftermath of the alleged Israeli strikes, The Sunday Times reports. </b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/misc/tags/Syria-1.476734" target="_blank">Syria</a>
is making preparations to strike Tel Aviv in case Israel launches
another attack on its territory, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday.
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<b>The
Syrian army </b>has begun deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles,
the report said, adding that it <b>has received orders to strike central
Israel in case additional attacks against Syria are carried out.</b>
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<b>The
Sunday Times said that the information was obtained by reconnaissance
satellites that were tracking the Syrian forces.</b> According to the
report, Syria was deploying advanced Tishreen missiles which are capable
of carrying a half-ton warhead.
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<b>On Wednesday, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-official-hints-at-more-attacks-on-syria-warns-assad-not-to-respond-1.524151" target="_blank">The New York Times quoted a senior Israeli official</a> warning of further attacks against Syria in case <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/misc/tags/Bashar%20Assad-1.476974" target="_blank">Bashar Assad</a>
decides to take action against Israel.</b> The official also said Israel is
determined to prevent any transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah.
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Hezbollah leader <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/misc/tags/Hassan%20Nasrallah-1.476767" target="_blank">Hassan Nasrallah</a> said that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/nasrallah-syria-will-provide-hezbollah-with-game-changing-weapons-1.523203" target="_blank">Syria would supply his organization with 'game-changing weapons</a>'
in response to recent air raids near Damascus attributed to Israel.
Another <b>recent report claimed that Iran convinced Assad to allow
Hezbollah to open a front against Israel in the Golan Heights, and also
agreed to supply and assist any group that wishes to fight Israel.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/815131/la-menace-de-partition-de-la-syrie-entre-fantasme-et-realite.html"> http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/815131/la-menace-de-partition-de-la-syrie-entre-fantasme-et-realite.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>La menace de partition de la Syrie, entre fantasme et réalité </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Antoine AJOURY</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20/05/2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Deux experts dissèquent pour « L’Orient-Le Jour » les enjeux et les
conséquences au niveau local et régional de l’éclatement du régime de
Damas.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">La menace est là. Fictive ou réelle, elle est désormais sur toutes
les lèvres. Plusieurs <b>dirigeants arabes, turcs et mondiaux ont mis en
garde contre l’éclatement de la Syrie </b>où une guerre civile fait rage
depuis plus de deux ans. Au Liban, le leader druze <b>Walid Joumblatt a
récemment dénoncé la politique du président syrien Bachar el-Assad qui
vise à diviser le pays. Auparavant, le secrétaire général du Hezbollah,
Hassan Nasrallah, a accusé les Occidentaux de vouloir la partition de la
Syrie.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sur le terrain, la division de facto des régions sous le contrôle
des rebelles et de celles sous le contrôle du régime stagne depuis
quelque temps. Toutefois,<b> les derniers combats qui ont eu lieu à la
frontière libanaise</b> autour de plusieurs villages chiites formant un
couloir reliant le littoral syrien à la capitale, combinés aux massacres
qui ont eu lieu à Banias, <b>semblent inaugurer une nouvelle phase dans le
conflit syrien. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pour<b> Fabrice Balanche</b>, maître de conférences à l’<b>Université
Lyon 2</b> et membre du groupe de recherches et d’études sur la Méditerranée
et le Moyen-Orient à la <b>Maison de l’Orient</b>, <b>« la Syrie est aujourd’hui,
de fait, divisée en trois zones : le Nord-Est dominé par les milices
kurdes, le Nord globalement tenu par l’opposition “arabe”, la région
côtière et le Sud entre les mains du régime. Ces lignes de front ne
bougent pratiquement pas depuis une année. </b>Les forces de Bachar el-Assad
reprennent quelques territoires comme Qousseir, la rébellion s’empare
d’un aéroport militaire supplémentaire dans le Nord, mais <b>globalement,
nous avons une opposition “Syrie du Nord” contre “Syrie du Sud” qui
s’installe dans le temps ».</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Toutefois, le chercheur français estime que Bachar el-Assad et la
Coalition nationale syrienne se posent tous les deux en défenseur de
l’unité de la Syrie. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Selon lui, « <b>le but de Bachar el-Assad n’est
pas de construire un réduit alaouite, mais de conserver le pouvoir sur
l’ensemble du territoire syrien.</b> Il est persuadé de pouvoir l’emporter à
terme par sa <b>stratégie de contre-insurrection. </b>Tant qu’il possède le
soutien de la Russie et de l’Iran, que l’<b>insurrection demeure incapable
de passer du stade de la guérilla à celle d’une organisation unifiée, il
conserve toutes ses chances de l’emporter. </b>La <b>Coalition nationale
syrienne et la plupart des autres mouvements d’opposition refusent
également toute partition de la Syrie. En revanche, les partis kurdes,
qu’il s’agisse du PYD, branche syrienne du PKK, ou du PDK, affilié au
parti de Massoud Barzani, militent pour une large autonomie du
territoire kurde qui débouchera à terme sur une indépendance ».</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br />Mais bien que la partition ne soit pas l’objectif des deux
principaux belligérants, elle peut résulter de la défaite d’un des deux
camps sans que l’autre ne puisse totalement le vaincre. « Prenons le cas
de l’effondrement éventuel du régime de Bachar el-Assad</b>. Le président
syrien, sa famille et les hauts responsables peuvent espérer trouver
refuge à l’étranger (Iran, Russie ou Amérique latine), mais <b>
qu’adviendra-t-il des cadres moyens de son régime et des centaines de
milliers d’exécutants, agents des services de renseignements
(moukhabarate), soldats, paramilitaires (chabbiha) et même les simples
fonctionnaires, alaouites ou non, qui participent ou sont accusés de
participer à la répression par les oppositions ? </b>» se demande ainsi M.
Balanche, ajoutant : «<b> Ils n’ont pas les moyens de s’exiler</b>, et surtout
vers quelle destination ?<b> La montée en puissance des groupes
jihadistes dans l’opposition armée leur fait craindre le pire, d’autant
que l’opposition politique, à travers la Coalition nationale syrienne,
ne leur apporte guère de garanties sur une éventuelle réconciliation
nationale. La situation des anciens cadres baassistes du régime de
Saddam Hussein fait jurisprudence en Syrie puisque ces derniers, après
avoir été chassés de l’armée et de l’administration, n’ont même pas le
droit de se présenter aux élections. »</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Plusieurs scénarios</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pour
sa part, le <b>politologue libanais et enseignant à l’Université
américaine de Paris Ziad Majed propose plusieurs scénarios, </b>en examinant
les positions des belligérants, le déroulement des combats, de même que
la carte des massacres commis par les chabbiha du régime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">« <b>D’abord le scénario A qu’Assad essaye de défendre jusqu’au
bout : une survie politique et une participation à une transition
politique en tant qu’acteur incontournable dans une Syrie qui reste
unifiée. Ceci consiste à défendre le contrôle de Damas sans laquelle ce
scénario n’est ni possible ni sensé. </b>Or <b>le contrôle de Damas “nécessite”
l’occupation par le feu de ses quartiers sud et de ses banlieues
rebelles, et le contrôle de l’accès direct à la capitale à partir du
littoral, bastion du régime.</b> Cet accès passant obligatoirement par Homs
explique la violence des combats dans cette ville et ses alentours (et
la participation du Hezbollah depuis juillet 2012 dans ces combats). Il
explique également certains massacres visant à vider des villages de
cette même région de leurs populations sunnites. Pour le reste,
l’important pour le régime est de rendre la vie impossible dans les
autres régions “libérées”.<b> Assad veut également pousser une partie de la
population à “regretter” l’ancienne “stabilité”. »</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Toujours selon M. Majed, <b>le scénario B, si Damas devient
indéfendable ou si elle tombe, consiste à se replier vers le littoral
(élargi) en « annexant » Homs et une partie du rif de Hama. Assad devra
se montrer capable de défendre une enclave ayant une bonne
infrastructure et ayant les moyens d’autosuffisance économique.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>« Ceci
suppose néanmoins que les alaouites suivent Assad et le maintiennent
comme leader de leur “territoire” , ce qui n’est pas à mon avis évident.</b>
Une grande partie d’entre eux se battent à ses côtés aujourd’hui par
esprit de “assabiyya” et avec la conviction de garder le pouvoir. En
revanche, se battre en retrait pour une enclave qui leur était acquise
et <b>mettre leurs villes et villages directement sous le feu me semblent
difficiles à tenir sur le long terme sans que des tensions “internes” et
des demandes de comptes n’émergent </b>», explique le politologue libanais.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Du côté de l’opposition – soutenant la lutte armée –, « il me
semble qu’il y a un seul scénario : combattre jusqu’à la chute du
régime</b>. Cela implique la prise de Damas puis la reconquête de Homs avec
le<b> refus de toute création d’une ligne de démarcation menant à une
possible partition</b> », affirme M. Majed, rejoignant ici l’idée de M.
Balanche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Il existe en outre un<b> quatrième scénario, de facto, qui n’est ni
la partition ni la victoire décisive d’un camp sur l’autre. C’est la
continuation dans une configuration comme celle que nous vivons
actuellement : le régime maintient son contrôle de Damas, prend ce qui
reste de Homs, perd une partie de ce qui reste de ses positions dans le
Sud, l’Est et le Nord, sans pour autant s’effondrer. « Nous pourrions
alors aller vers l’installation d’un effroyable statu quo auquel le
monde peut s’habituer »</b>, avertit Ziad Majed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Solution instable ?</b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Supposons
toutefois le pire des scénarios, à savoir la partition de la Syrie.
Serait-il plausible, viable, avec la création de régions autonomes
kurdes, druzes, alaouites ? <br />Pour Ziad Majed, la réponse est
négative. « Nous oublions qu’il y a aujourd’hui des centaines de
milliers de réfugiés sunnites arabes dans le littoral qualifié
d’alaouite, dans Soueida qualifiée de druze et dans le Nord-Est kurde.
Cela rend toute partition temporaire instable pour des raisons internes à
chaque “canton” avant même de parler des enjeux régionaux »,
explique-t-il.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Par contre, des régions autonomes, une décentralisation
administrative élargie et même une forme de fédéralisme à l’allemande ou
à l’espagnole, par exemple, semblent des situations plausibles pour une
future Syrie, ajoute le politologue libanais. Pour lui, « il faut
sortir à la fois de l’idéologie centraliste baassiste, de même que du
référent malheureux irakien du post-Saddam. La décentralisation élargie
pourrait dans ce cas être un compromis... ».</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fabrice Balanche est de son côté beaucoup plus <b>pessimiste</b> : «<b> Il
est clair que la fragmentation territoriale sur des bases
ethnico-confessionnelles s’est renforcée pour des raisons sécuritaires
(alaouites, druzes et chrétiens) ou idéologiques (les Kurdes). La
victoire d’une opposition “arabe sunnite”, plus ou moins islamiste, ne
fera qu’accentuer le phénomène. Car nous aurons une redéfinition de la
“nation syrienne” qui se fera non pas sur des valeurs laïques, comme
celles véhiculées par le Baas, mais ethnico-religieuses. Cela va
conduire à l’exclusion des autres communautés et même des laïcs
appartenant à la majorité arabe sunnite. La volonté de vengeance, liée à
la violence du conflit, mais aussi de revanche après plus de quarante
années de domination par les alaouites augure mal d’une réconciliation
nationale dans le cadre d’un État fédéral. </b>Je ne crois malheureusement
pas à une solution médiane pour les minorités en Syrie. »</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Alaouites et Kurdes</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Le
chercheur français revient sur sa thèse, <b>« la région alaouite et le
pouvoir syrien »</b>, où il conclut <b>« qu’en cas de perte du pouvoir par la
famille el-Assad, les alaouites n’auraient pas d’autre issue que de se
séparer de la Syrie. Leur fief est aussi vaste que le Liban, son
ouverture sur la mer et ses infrastructures économiques lui confèrent une autonomie potentielle</b> (Le Fief des alaouites, Limes, mars 2013). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Le
<b> territoire kurde, quant à lui, est divisé en plusieurs entités d’Afryn
(au nord d’Alep) à la frontière irakienne. La Haute Jezireh peut
cependant constituer la base d’un territoire kurde autonome grâce à ses
ressources agricoles et en hydrocarbures, qu’ils peuvent exporter via la
Turquie et surtout le Kurdistan irakien ». </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">M. Balanche pose
toutefois d’autres questions :<b> quel sera le devenir des populations
kurdes de Damas et d’Alep (un million au total) qui représentent le
tiers des Kurdes de Syrie ? Quel sera également le sort des populations
alaouites de Damas? La communauté druze aura plus de mal à constituer
une région autonome car le Jebel Druze, au sud-est du pays, est un petit
territoire, enclavé et dénué de <br />ressources. Il pourrait se tourner
vers la Jordanie, comme il en a eu la tentation dans les années 1950,
mais que deviendrait alors la majorité de la population druze qui réside
dans l’agglomération de Damas ? Quant aux chrétiens, ils sont trop
dispersés et divisés pour constituer une entité autonome. Tout comme
dans le cas irakien, ils n’ont d’autre choix que de se placer sous la
protection de groupes plus importants ou de partir, ajoute-t-il.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Conséquences régionales</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Parler
de partition de la Syrie, c’est aussi parler d’instabilité régionale</b>.
Ce qui, pour Ziad Majed, diminue encore plus la durabilité d’un scénario
pareil. Dans ce cas, la <b>Turquie (pour des raisons confessionnelles mais
surtout nationalistes – Turcs/Kurdes), l’Irak (déjà en instabilité et
en mobilisations et contre-mobilisations confessionnelles et ethniques –
sunnites/chiites et Arabes/Kurdes), le Liban et même la Jordanie
peuvent subir les ondes de choc et connaître de fortes turbulences
politiques.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pour M. Majed,<b> l’Irak et le Liban sont les deux scènes les plus
« volatiles »</b> vu leurs démographies confessionnelles, la fragilité de
leurs consensus nationaux et leurs terrains fertiles pour les
confrontations irano-saoudiennes qui pourront s’intensifier.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Même
constatation chez Fabrice Balanche qui considère que <b>le conflit en
Syrie,</b> par sa dimension communautaire,<b> alimente les clivages internes en
Irak,</b> puisque les tribus sunnites de l’Ouest soutiennent les rebelles
syriens tandis que des volontaires chiites irakiens défendent le
mausolée de saydé Zeinab. Quant à Massoud <b>Barzani, il tente d’organiser
l’opposition kurde. « La partition de la Syrie constituerait une menace
pour l’intégrité de l’Irak, car les Kurdes et les Arabes sunnites
voudront se rapprocher de leurs coreligionnaires syriens, ce qui
accentuera la division de l’Irak</b>, mais sans que cela n’aboutisse à une
fusion des entités sunnite et kurde au sein du croissant fertile
syro-irakien », </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">estime-t-il.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quid du Liban ? « Ces exemples peuvent inciter les Libanais à
réfléchir aux scénarios possibles, car<b> le pays du Cèdre ne sortira pas
indemne d’une partition de la Syrie. Le débat sur la cantonisation du
pays va se poser naturellement, le projet de loi orthodoxe sur le
prochain scrutin législatif est symptomatique de l’échec des accords de
Taëf »</b>, affirme Fabrice Balanche.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">La Turquie est un État nation
centralisé et prospère sur le plan économique, ce qui normalement
devrait la mettre à l’abri d’une déstabilisation liée à la crise
syrienne, ajoute-t-il.<b> Le conflit syrien a sans doute poussé le Premier
ministre turc Tayyip Recep Erdogan à négocier une sortie de crise avec
le PKK avant que l’incendie n’embrase tout le sud-est de la Turquie.
« Je pense que ce pays finira par jouer un rôle militaire en Syrie, au
prétexte de la défense des minorités turkmènes. Cela pourrait se
produire, si un réduit alaouite voyait le jour,</b> pour contrôler l’accès à
la mer de la Syrie intérieure via “le corridor de Lattaquié” », conclut
M. Balanche.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Une étape nécessaire vers un avenir meilleur?</b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La
région du Proche-Orient n’a jamais été autant en ébullition depuis les
fameux accords de Sykes-Picot. Paradoxe des paradoxes, tous les régimes
de la région, et surtout le Baas syrien, fustigeaient les « frontières
artificielles créées par les colonisateurs ». Or, aujourd’hui, tous
dénoncent un changement éventuel.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ziad Majed estime que le discours
dominant stigmatisait les accords de Sykes-Picot qui ont « déchiré » la
région et créé des frontières artificielles. « Donc <b>partitionner ce qui
l’a déjà été une seconde fois semble un mal de plus... »</b>Les
frontières héritées de Sykes-Picot ne sont pas parfaites, mais aucune
frontière n’est idéale, renchérit M. Balanche.<b> Dès qu’on ouvre la boîte
de pandore du redécoupage territorial, la violence se déchaîne. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Selon
lui, « les régimes issus des indépendances ne sont pas parvenus à
réaliser l’unité nationale. L’unité territoriale ne fonctionne que grâce
à l’autoritarisme. Par conséquent, la remise en cause de
l’autoritarisme interroge l’avenir des constructions territoriales
existantes ».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>« Le paradoxe est que, lorsqu’on évoque un redécoupage du
Proche-Orient, les mêmes dirigeants accusent l’Occident d’une nouvelle
entreprise coloniale. Cependant, on peut légitimement se poser la
question de la viabilité des constructions étatiques actuelles au
Proche-Orient, de la délimitation de nouvelles frontières qui auraient
peut-être plus de sens pour les populations. Mais il faut être conscient
du cortège de violences que cela entraînera. S’agit-il d’une étape
nécessaire pour obtenir une stabilité durable dans le futur ? Le
processus n’est-il pas déjà engagé en Irak et en Syrie ?</b> » s’interroge
enfin Fabrice Balanche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pierre Khalaf</span><br />
<br /><span class="titre_sans_1"><span class="updated" title="2013-05-20">20 mai 2013</span></span><br />
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<span class="titre_sans_1"><span class="updated" title="2013-05-20"><strong>Elnashra.com</strong> (Site libanais indépendant, 15 mai 2013)
<br />Naji Boustani </span></span><br />
<span class="titre_sans_1"><span class="updated" title="2013-05-20"><br />Depuis le déclenchement de<b> la bataille de Qoussair, dans la campagne
de Homs, et la participation de combattants du Hezbollah et des comités
populaires, il est clairement apparu que cette offensive dépassait la
simple récupération d’un village par-ci et d’une bourgade par-là. Elle
entre dans le cadre d’un plan militaire ayant des objectifs et des
dimensions stratégiques.</b> Comment a-t-il été mis en œuvre et à quelle
étape sommes-nous actuellement :
<br /><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /><b> Première
étape</b> : L’attaque a commencé contre la colline de Mando, qui surplombe
la plupart de la région de Qoussair, et contre un pont important qui
relie les deux rives de l’Oronte. Le but était de <b>localiser les
positions des groupes armés et d’empêcher leur infiltration à l’ouest de
l’Oronte. Les villages de Bourhaniyé et Radwaniyé, proches de la
frontière libanaise, ont été pris d’assaut pour isoler les lignes de
ravitaillement des miliciens de l’intérieur du Liban.
</b><br /><b><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /> Deuxième
étape </b>: La localité de <b>Abel, qui relie les villes de Qoussair et de
Homs a été occupée</b>, dans le cadre d’un plan visant à <b>resserrer
progressivement l’étau sur Qoussair</b>.
<br /><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /> <b>Troisième
étape </b>: <b>Une vaste offensive a été lancée pour prendre le contrôle de
villages à l’ouest de l’Oronte, suivie quelques jours plus tard par une
attaque d’envergure sur les villages à l’Est du fleuve. </b>Les localités de
Joussé, Saadiya, Sfarja, Khalidiyé, Qadish, Mansouriyé, Salloumié,
Jarroussié, Sekmaniyé, Ouznité etc… ont été occupées. Les <b>rebelles ont
été contraints de se retirer vers l’intérieur de la ville de Qoussair.
</b><br /><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /> <b>Quatrième
étape</b> : Une attaque a été lancée avec succès contre <b>trois villages :
Haidariyé, Doumeina-Gharbiyé et Ach el-Warwar, ce qui a permis de couper
la route entre Qoussair et Homs, utilisée pour ravitailler en armes,
nourritures et équipements les rebelles.
</b><br /><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /> <b>Cinquième
étape</b> : Elle se déroule en ce moment<b>. L’aviation syrienne bombarde les
positions rebelles dans Qoussair, transformée en champs de ruine, en
préparation de l’offensive au sol de toutes les directions.
</b><br /><b>Les objectifs de la bataille de Qoussair sont les suivants :
</b><br /><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /> 1. <b>Préparer la bataille de Homs,</b> dont<b> la moitié est encore occupée par les rebelles, et qui était considérée comme le « <i>berceau de la révolution</i> » ;
</b><br /><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /> 2.
<b>Empêcher le déploiement des rebelles vers la campagne au nord de Damas
et éviter qu’ils coupent la route Homs-Damas. Maintenir ouverte la route
Tartous-Damas ;
</b><br /><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /> 3. <b>Mettre un terme au ravitaillement des rebelles du centre de la Syrie à partir du Liban ;</b>
<br /><img alt="-" class="puce" height="11" src="http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif" style="height: 11px; width: 9px;" width="9" /> 4.<b>
Sécuriser une large zone du centre de la Syrie, sous le contrôle du
régime, et protégée par le Hezbollah sur son flanc ouest. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br />Bashar al Assad, líder sirio: “Renunciar sería huir; el pueblo decide si me quedo, no EE.UU.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clarin, Buenos Aires</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...<br /><b>-El terrorismo no puede ser el camino hacia las reformas. ¿Qué relación
tiene un terrorista checheno con las reformas en Siria? ¿Qué relación
tiene un terrorista venido de Irak, Líbano o Afganistán con las reformas
en Siria? Ultimamente se han registrado unas 29 nacionalidades que
combaten en Siria ... ¿qué relación hay entre todos ellos y el
reformismo interno?</b> Esto es ilógico. En cuanto a nosotros, le digo que
hemos hecho reformas y ahora también tenemos una iniciativa política que
incluye un diálogo. <b>La base de cualquier solución política es lo que
quiere el pueblo sirio, y esto lo rigen las urnas. No hay otra forma.</b> En
cuanto al terrorismo, nadie quiere dialogar con un terrorista. El
terrorismo golpeó a EE.UU. y Europa; pero ningún gobierno dialogó con
los terroristas. Uno dialoga con fuerzas políticas, pero no con un
terrorista que degüella, mata y usa gases químicos.<br />...<br /><br />-Nosotros hemos partido de un título más grande que es dialogar con las
fuerzas políticas. <b>Ese diálogo conduciría a una Carta Magna que requiere
de un referendum del pueblo. Esta Constitución dará mayores libertades</b>.
Las leyes se basarán en la nueva Constitución y es obvio que recojan
libertades políticas y mediáticas. Pero uno no puede hablar de libertad
de prensa sin que haya libertades políticas en general.<br />...<br /><br /><b>-Nosotros optamos por dialogar con cualquiera que quiera dialogar, sin
excepción. Siempre y cuando Siria tenga su decisión libre y soberana.
Pero esto no incluye a los terroristas, ningún estado dialoga con
terroristas. Cuando se deponen las armas y se acude al diálogo no
tenemos problemas. Creer que una conferencia política detendrá el
terrorismo sobre el terreno, es irreal.</b><br />...<br /><br /><b>-Mi permanencia o no depende del pueblo sirio. No es mi decisión
personal quedarme o irme. Es del pueblo. Si te quieren te quedas, si no
te marchas. El asunto depende de la Constitución, de las urnas. En las
elecciones de 2014 el pueblo decidirá. </b><br />...<br /><br />-Soy un presidente elegido y es el pueblo quien decide mi permanencia.
Ahora, que alguien diga que el presidente sirio tiene que irse porque
EE.UU. lo quiere o porque los terroristas lo piden, es inadmisible.<br />...<br /><br /><b>-A Occidente sólo le importan los gobiernos que le sean leales. Ellos
quieren un gobierno servil que haga lo que ellos quieran
independientemente de su forma. Pero lo sucedido en Afganistán refuta
eso. Ellos apoyaron a los Taliban</b> y el 11-S pagaron un precio altísimo. <b>
Lo peligroso de esto es que los estados wahabitas quieren difundir el
pensamiento extremista en toda la población y en Siria nosotros tenemos
un islam moderado y resistiremos a eso con todos los medios.</b><br />...</span><br />
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Por <i><a class="yiv1575485840signmail" href="http://us.mc1219.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mcantelmi@clarin.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Marcelo Cantelmi">Marcelo Cantelmi</a></i></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Damasco, 19/05/13 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">En la entrevista con Clarín rechazó dar un paso al costado para
concluir la crisis. Negó que esté usando armas químicas en la represión y
puso en duda la cifra de 70.000 muertos que da la ONU.
Bashar al Assad, el hombre fuerte de Siria, lleva una mirada
tranquila que desentona con el sitio que le ha tocado en la historia. O
quizá no sea de calma porque también parece esa mirada atrapada en un
asombro que no cesa. En esta extensa entrevista, la primera desde el
inicio de la guerra con un medio hispano, Assad miró de ese modo para
negar cualquier posibilidad de renunciar, las denuncias de uso de armas
químicas y hasta la cifra de 70.000 muertos que denuncia la ONU. El
reportaje se hizo en una biblioteca de su palacio en Damasco mientras se
escuchaba a la distancia el sonido sordo del intercambio de artillería y
del disparo de morteros. </span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">-¿Por qué la crisis en Siria se ha extendido y profundizado como no sucedió en otro país arabe?<br />
<br />-Múltiples
elementos internos y externos han contribuido a la crisis, el más
importante es la intervención externa; luego, porque los cálculos de los
países que han querido intervenir en Siria eran cálculos erróneos.
Aquellos estados creían que el plan podía terminar en cuestión de
semanas o meses pero esto no sucedió, lo que ha ocurrido es que el
pueblo sirio ha resistido y continuamos haciéndolo. Para nosotros se
trata de defender nuestra patria.<br />
-¿Sabe que según la ONU esta guerra ya ha causado más de 70.000 muertos? <br />
<br />-Habría
que preguntar a quienes plantean esas cifras la credibilidad de sus
fuentes. Toda muerte es horrible, pero muchos de los muertos de que
hablan son extranjeros que vinieron a matar al pueblo sirio. Tampoco
podemos obviar que hay muchos sirios desaparecidos. ¿Cuál es el número
de sirios muertos, y cuál de los extranjeros? ¿Cuántos son los
desaparecidos? No podemos dar una cifra precisa. Desde luego esto cambia
constantemente porque los terroristas matan y a veces entierran a sus
víctimas en fosas comunes.<br />
-¿Descarta que puede haber habido fuerza excesiva, desproporcionada, por parte de sus tropas en la represión?<br />
<br />-¿Cómo
se podría determinar si ha habido fuerza excesiva o no? ¿Cuál es la
fórmula? Es poco objetivo hablar de eso. Uno responde según el tipo de
terrorismo que afronta. Al inicio era terrorismo local y luego vino del
exterior lo cual condujo a la sofisticación de las armas que traían. El
debate aquí no es el volumen de la fuerza empleada o el tipo de
armamento sino el volumen del terrorismo que sufrimos con el
consiguiente deber de replicar.<br />
-¿No hubo en el inicio de la crisis la posibilidad de alcanzar un diálogo para evitar este desenlace?<br />
<br />-Al
inicio las demandas eran reformistas, aunque ese planteo era aparente,
se trataba de una fachada, un camouflage para hacerlo pasar como una
cuestión de reformas. Hemos hecho reformas ... cambiamos la Constitución
... cambiamos las leyes ... anulamos el estado de emergencia y
anunciamos un diálogo con las fuerzas opositoras, pero ante cada paso
que dábamos se incrementaba el terrorismo. La pregunta lógica acá es:
¿cuál es la relación entre el terrorismo y el reformismo?<br />
-¿Qué responde?<br />
<br />-El
terrorismo no puede ser el camino hacia las reformas. ¿Qué relación
tiene un terrorista checheno con las reformas en Siria? ¿Qué relación
tiene un terrorista venido de Irak, Líbano o Afganistán con las reformas
en Siria? Ultimamente se han registrado unas 29 nacionalidades que
combaten en Siria ... ¿qué relación hay entre todos ellos y el
reformismo interno? Esto es ilógico. En cuanto a nosotros, le digo que
hemos hecho reformas y ahora también tenemos una iniciativa política que
incluye un diálogo. La base de cualquier solución política es lo que
quiere el pueblo sirio, y esto lo rigen las urnas. No hay otra forma. En
cuanto al terrorismo, nadie quiere dialogar con un terrorista. El
terrorismo golpeó a EE.UU. y Europa; pero ningún gobierno dialogó con
los terroristas. Uno dialoga con fuerzas políticas, pero no con un
terrorista que degüella, mata y usa gases químicos.<br />
-Usted
denuncia la presencia de milicias extranjeras en Siria, pero se asegura
que hay también combatientes de Hezbollah y de Irán. <br />
<br />-Siria,
con sus 23 millones de habitantes, no necesita apoyo humano del país
que sea. Tenemos ejército y fuerzas de seguridad. No necesitamos de Irán
o de Hezbollah para eso. No tenemos combatientes de fuera de Siria. Hay
sí personas aquí de Hezbollah e Irán pero desde antes de la crisis
ellos han venido a Siria.<br />
-Entre aquellas reformas de la Constitución que comenta, ¿se contempla una irrestricta libertad de prensa?<br />
<br />-Tal vez conoce que hay una nueva ley de prensa que fue decretada con un paquete de leyes ...<br />
-No<br />
-Nosotros hemos partido de un título más grande que es dialogar con las
fuerzas políticas. Ese diálogo conduciría a una Carta Magna que
requiere de un referendum del pueblo. Esta Constitución dará mayores
libertades. Las leyes se basarán en la nueva Constitución y es obvio que
recojan libertades políticas y mediáticas. Pero uno no puede hablar de
libertad de prensa sin que haya libertades políticas en general.<br />
-¿Cómo evalúa la conferencia sobre Siria planeada para fines de este mes por Rusia y EE. UU?<br />
</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">-Hemos
acogido bien el acercamiento ruso-estadounidense, y esperamos que
configure un encuentro internacional para ayudar a los sirios. Pero no
creemos que muchos países occidentales quieran efectivamente una
solución en Siria. No creemos que muchas de las fuerzas que apoyan a los
terroristas quieran una solución. Nosotros respaldamos esta gestión y
la aplaudimos, pero debemos ser realistas. No puede haber una solución
unilateral en Siria, se necesitan dos partes al menos.<br />
-¿Son las fuerzas que lo combaten o las grandes potencias quienes no quieren una solución?<br />
<br />-En
la práctica esas fuerzas opositoras están vinculadas a países
extranjeros y por tanto no tienen decisión propia. Viven de lo que les
viene de afuera, reciben fondos y hacen lo que deciden aquellos países.
Ambos son la misma cosa y son ellos quienes anunciaron que no quieren
diálogo con el Estado sirio, la última vez la pasada semana.<br />
-Cuando habla de diálogo ¿a quién se refiere del otro bando?<br />
<br />-Nosotros
optamos por dialogar con cualquiera que quiera dialogar, sin excepción.
Siempre y cuando Siria tenga su decisión libre y soberana. Pero esto no
incluye a los terroristas, ningún estado dialoga con terroristas.
Cuando se deponen las armas y se acude al diálogo no tenemos problemas.
Creer que una conferencia política detendrá el terrorismo sobre el
terreno, es irreal.<br />
-¿Qué posibilidad hay de que el diálogo
incluya a esas fuerzas externas, como los EE.UU., por ejemplo, que
supuestamente apoyan a esa gente (terroristas)?<br />
<br />-Nosotros
hemos dicho desde el principio que dialogamos con cualquier fuerza del
país o del exterior, a condición de que no empuñen armas. Esta es la
única condición. No hemos puesto condiciones al diálogo. Incluso hay
fuerzas que son buscadas por la justicia, pero no hemos adoptado ninguna
medida contra nadie para dejar cabida al diálogo y poder escuchar a
todos. El pueblo sirio será el que decida quién es patriótico y quién
no. Nunca dijimos que queríamos la solución que mejor le convenga al
gobierno; no exponemos lo que nosotros pensamos que sería mejor. Le
hemos dejado la solución al pueblo sirio.<br />
-Con relación a la conferencia internacional ...<br />
<br />-Para
nosotros el aspecto básico a tratar en cualquier conferencia
internacional es detener el flujo de dinero y armas a Siria y detener el
envío de terroristas quienes vienen de Turquía y con financiación
qatari y de otros estados del Golfo como Arabia Saudita. Mientras
existan países como Qatar o Turquía que no tienen interés en detener la
violencia en Siria o en una solución política, el terrorismo continuará.<br />
-¿Dónde coloca a Israel en esta crisis?<br />
<br />-Israel
apoya directamente y por dos vías a los grupos terroristas, les da
apoyo logístico y los instruye sobre cómo y cuáles sitios atacar. Por
ejemplo ellos atacaron una estación de radar del sistema de defensa
antiaérea que detecta cualquier avión que viene de afuera, especialmente
Israel. <br />
-En caso de avanzarse en el diálogo, ¿prevé un calendario de entrega de armas por la oposición?<br />
<br />-Ellos
no son una sola entidad, son grupos y bandas, no son decenas sino
centenares. Son una mezcla, cada grupo tiene su cabecilla local. Son
miles, ¿quién puede unificar a miles de personas? Esta es la pregunta.
No podemos hablar de un calendario con una parte que no sabemos quién
es. Cuando ellos tengan una estructura unificada entonces daremos una
respuesta a esta pregunta. <br />
-¿Daría un paso al costado para una solución definitiva? ¿Está dispuesto a renunciar?<br />
</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">-Mi
permanencia o no depende del pueblo sirio. No es mi decisión personal
quedarme o irme. Es del pueblo. Si te quieren te quedas, si no te
marchas. El asunto depende de la Constitución, de las urnas. En las
elecciones de 2014 el pueblo decidirá. <br />
-Se ha planteado la alternativa de que usted dimita como condición para un cierre del conflicto.<br />
<br />-Soy
un presidente elegido y es el pueblo quien decide mi permanencia.
Ahora, que alguien diga que el presidente sirio tiene que irse porque
EE.UU. lo quiere o porque los terroristas lo piden, es inadmisible.<br />
-Barack
Obama ha dado señales de que no contempla intervenir en su país pero su
canciller, John Kerry, ha dicho que cualquier avance debería incluir la
salida de usted de su cargo.<br />
<br />-Yo no sé si Kerry u otro
han recibido un mandato del pueblo sirio para hablar en nombre de este
pueblo, acerca de quién debe irse y quién debe permanecer. Hemos dicho
que cualquier decisión en relación a las reformas en Siria o cualquier
acción política son decisiones sirias y no está permitido ni a EE.UU. ni
a ningún otro Estado intervenir en ellas. Somos un Estado
independiente, no aceptamos que nadie nos defina lo que tenemos que
hacer, ni EE.UU. ni nadie. Por tanto esta probabilidad la determina el
pueblo sirio. Uno va a las elecciones, se presenta como candidato y está
la posibilidad de ganar o no. Entonces no se puede ir a esa conferencia
y decidir de antemano algo que el pueblo no ha decidido. Otro aspecto:
el país está en crisis y cuando el barco se encuentra en medio de la
tormenta, renunciar es huir, entonces el capitán no huye. Lo primero es
hacer frente a la tormenta, devolver el barco al lugar correcto y
entonces se deciden las cosas. No soy una persona que rehúye la
responsabilidad. <br />
-Francia, Gran Bretaña y el propio Kerry
denunciaron que su ejército usó armas químicas, gas sarín, en contra de
la población civil ...<br />
<br />-No debemos perder nuestro tiempo
con esas declaraciones. Las armas químicas son armas de destrucción
masiva. Dicen que las usamos en zonas residenciales. Si una bomba
nuclear fuese arrojada sobre una ciudad y el saldo fuese diez o veinte
personas, ¿acaso me creerían? El uso de armas químicas en zonas
residenciales significa matar miles o decenas de miles en minutos.
¿Quién podría ocultar semejante cosa?<br />
-¿A qué atribuye esta denuncia entonces?<br />
<br />-Cuando
plantearon el tema de las armas químicas lo hicieron cuando los grupos
terroristas las utilizaron en Aleppo en Khan al-Assal hace unos dos
meses. Hemos recogido las pruebas: el misil usado y las sustancias
químicas. Analizamos esas sustancias y enviamos una carta al Consejo de
Seguridad para que envíe una misión verificadora. EE.UU, Francia y Gran
Bretaña se vieron en una situación embarazosa y dijeron que querían
enviar una misión que investigue sobre armas químicas en otras zonas
donde alegan que fueron usadas. Lo hicieron para no investigar en dónde
se produjo el hecho real. Un miembro de esa comisión, Carla del Ponte,
anunció que los terroristas son quienes usan armas químicas pero ni la
ONU prestó atención a esa declaración. <br />
-¿Cree que esta denuncia podría allanar el camino a una intervención militiar en Siria?<br />
<br />-Si
este asunto se usa como preludio de una guerra contra Siria es
probable. Nosotros no nos olvidamos de lo sucedido en Irak ¿Dónde
estaban las armas de destrucción masiva de Saddam Hussein? Occidente
miente y falsifica para desatar guerras, es su costumbre. Por supuesto
cualquier guerra contra Siria no será fácil, no será una excursión. Pero
no podemos descartar la posibilidad de que lancen una guerra.<br />
-¿En qué se basa?<br />
<br />-Esto
ocurrió ya de parte de Israel (los bombardeos). Es una probabilidad
vigente especialmente despues que logramos golpear a los grupos armados
en muchas zonas de Siria. Entonces dichos países encomendaron a Israel
que hiciera esto para elevar la moral de los grupos terroristas.
Suponemos que en algún momento se producirá algún tipo de intervención
aunque sea limitada.<br />
-Usted dice que controlan la situación
pero mientras hablamos se escucha el estruendo de artillería en la
periferia de la ciudad. <br />
<br />-El término controlar o no
controlar se usa cuando se libra una guerra con un ejército extranjero.
Pero la situación es totalmente diferente. Los terroristas penetran en
zonas dispersas, y huyen de un lugar al otro. Hay vastas zonas donde se
mueven y es obvio que ningun ejército del mundo puede estar en cada
rincón.<br />
-¿Cree realmente que los norteamericanos cooperan con
Qatar o Arabia Saudita para que tome el poder un régimen ultraislámico
wahabita en Siria?<br />
<br />-A Occidente sólo le importan los
gobiernos que le sean leales. Ellos quieren un gobierno servil que haga
lo que ellos quieran independientemente de su forma. Pero lo sucedido en
Afganistán refuta eso. Ellos apoyaron a los Taliban y el 11-S pagaron
un precio altísimo. Lo peligroso de esto es que los estados wahabitas
quieren difundir el pensamiento extremista en toda la población y en
Siria nosotros tenemos un islam moderado y resistiremos a eso con todos
los medios.<br />
-En las elecciones presidenciales de 2014 ¿habrá
observadores internacionales y se permitirá el libre acceso de la prensa
mundial para cubrir ese evento?<br />
<br />-Para serle sincero, el
tema de los observadores es una decisión del país pues una parte del
pueblo no tolera la idea de que haya ese monitoreo por una cuestión de
soberanía nacional. Y nosotros no tenemos confianza en Occidente para
esa tarea. Si se acepta que haya observadores, serán de países amigos
como Rusia o China por ejemplo.<br />
-¿China?<br />
<br />- ...<br />
<br />-En
la entrevista que Clarín le hizo en Buenos Aires, dijo con firmeza que
rechazaba la idea de negar el Holocausto como sostiene Irán, ¿mantiene
esa posición?<br />
<br />-Yo le pregunto por qué hablar del
Holocausto y no de lo que ocurre en Palestina, del millón y medio de
iraquíes asesinados. El Holocausto es una cuestión histórica que
necesita una visión abarcadora y no ser usado como un asunto político.
No soy un investigador de la historia para determinar lo exacto de este
tema. Las cuestiones históricas dependen de quién las escribe, por eso
la historia se falsea a veces. <br />
-¿Disculpe, pero existe alguna autocrítica que usted se formule?<br />
<br />-Es
ilógico hacer autocrítica cuando se trata de sucesos enteros. Si uno ve
una película no la critica antes de que finalice. Cuando el cuadro esté
completo se verá qué corresponde o no criticar.<br />
-Finalmente
¿tiene usted información sobre el paradero de los periodistas James
Foley, un norteamericano desaparecido hace 6 meses aquí, y del italiano
Domenico Quirico de La Stampa, perdido hace un mes aproximadamente?<br />
<br />-Hay
periodistas que ingresaron en Siria de forma ilegal en zonas donde
están activos los terroristas. Ha habido casos donde las tropas
militares han podido liberar a periodistas que estaban secuestrados. En
todo caso cuando disponemos de información sobre cualquier periodista
que ingresó ilegalmente, nosotros la transmitimos al país en cuestión. Y
hasta el momento no tenemos ninguna información sobre los dos
periodistas que usted men ciona.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-33923804079930408202013-02-23T20:45:00.000+00:002013-02-24T00:44:15.659+00:00behind grillo: bilderberg, aspen institute & amcham<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/21/290090/italy-risks-new-round-of-destabilization/">http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/21/290090/italy-risks-new-round-of-destabilization/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span id="ctl00_body_spnDetail">Berlusconi targeted, overthrown by CIA?</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="ctl00_body_spnDetail">Webster G. Tarpley</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This coming Sunday and
Monday, Italians will go to the polls to choose a new parliament and
thus a new prime minister, while setting the stage for the election of a
new president of the republic shortly thereafter.</b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Most indications are that the most numerous faction in the coming
parliament, with just over one third of the votes, will be the Common
Good coalition, composed of the Democratic Party (the remains of the old
Italian Communist Party), the Left Ecology Freedom movement of Nichi
Vendola, which includes various paleocommunists, and some smaller
forces. This coalition is led by Pier Luigi Bersani, a colorless
bureaucrat. Ironically, despite its leftist rhetoric, the Common Good is
the formation most likely to continue the austerity policies which are
currently tearing Italy apart.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coming in second with almost 30% should be the center-right
coalition around the People of Freedom, the party of the irrepressible
former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, joined by the Northern League
of Umberto Bossi, a xenophobic group which also articulates the
resentments of northern Italy against the south, the Mezzogiorno.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another important leader is Giulio Tremonti, the former Minister of
Economics and Finance. Berlusconi, a wealthy businessman and three-time
prime minister, was most recently in power from 2008 to November 2011.<b>
Berlusconi’s fall had been prepared through a series of lurid
revelations about his personal life, including an attack by the CIA
document dump known as Wikileaks. Berlusconi’s second-place status
represents a remarkable comeback, and the last polls show him closing on
Bersani.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Third place with almost 20% is likely to belong to a new and
unorthodox political formation, the Five Star Movement (5SM), where the
dominant personality is the former Genoese comedian Beppe Grillo, a
colorful and talented demagogue. The 5SM is anti-politician, anti-euro,
anti-infrastructure, anti-tax, and anti-mainstream media. Like the GOP,
they want to reduce the public debt, meaning they want deflation. Grillo
proposes a guaranteed annual income for all Italians, a 30-hour work
week, and a drastic reduction of energy consumption and of production.
He demands free Wi-Fi for all. Without modern production, how can these
benefits be provided?
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grillo wants to abort the infrastructure projects - like the new
high-speed train tunnel between Turin and France and the bridge between
Calabria and Sicily - upon which Italy’s economic future depends. He is
long on petty bourgeois process reforms like term limits, media reform,
corporate governance, and banning convicted felons from parliament, but
short on defending the standard of living for working people. On a
bizarre note, he has praised the British response to the 2008 banking
crisis</b>. As many as 100 members of the 5SM, many of them total political
novices, and more than a few adventurers who have jumped on board
Grillo’s bandwagon, may now enter parliament, with predictably
destabilizing consequences. <b>Grillo could be the vehicle for an Italian
color revolution along the lines of Ukraine or Georgia.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In fourth place, with less than 10%, is expected to be the current
prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti, a former eurocrat of the Brussels
Commission who has led a brutal technocratic austerity regime since
coming to power in November 2011 through a coup d’état sponsored by the
International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank, and executed by
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano with help from Mario Draghi at the
European Central Bank. </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Both Monti and Draghi are former employees of Goldman
Sachs, the widely hated zombie bank. When Monti seized power, he was
widely acclaimed as a savior and enjoyed an approval rating of 70%; his
approval has now fallen to about 30%. Like Gorbachev, he is unpopular
at home but remains the darling of foreign leaders. Even the <i>London Financial Times</i> is bearish on Monti, accusing him of starting his austerity regime when Italy was already in recession.</b></span></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Among the also-rans are<b> Civic Revolution of Antonio Ingroia, a
merger of the Greens with Antonio Di Pietro’s anti-corruption forces
left over from the “Clean Hands” movement of the early 1990s, which
targeted politicians but did very little to attack the larger corruption
of the Bank of Italy and the big banks.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Another smaller list is Stop the Decline, led by the strange Oscar
Giannino, backed up by a clique of US-educated professors of neo-liberal
austerity economics. This list was paid to poach votes from Berlusconi.
</b> But now Giannino has been hit with a scandal based on his false claim
of holding a master’s degree from a Chicago university.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Italian political landscape is extremely fragmented, so public
opinion polls - which cannot by law be published after February 8 - are
more than usually unreliable. Under the Italian system, the political
force which comes in first gets 54% of the seats in the lower house.
Multi-party coalitions must get 10% to enter parliament. If the 10% is
not achieved, the individual parties fall back under the rule which
prescribes that parties not in a coalition must get 4% to win seats.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Italian politics, which for many decades after World War II had
eight parties, has undergone massive Weimarization, especially since
Monti’s coup</b>. There are now no fewer than 25 political parties or
organizations. This time around, there are four new parties, including
those of Monti and Grillo. Two parties, including one led by Gianfranco
Fini, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, and another by former
Defense Minister Ignazio LaRussa, have split from Berlusconi. <b> Two
parties have also split from the Democratic Party, including the
libertarian Radicals of Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Banks hope for Bersani-Monti regime to continue austerity</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The banking community, as represented by Mediobanca and others, is
hoping for a Bersani-Monti coalition government to continue the savage
austerity policies that Monti’s technocratic ministers have been
imposing over the last 15 months. Bersani’s party and its predecessors
have always seen their business model as begging the big banks to let
them join the government, in exchange for which they will break the
labor movement, suppress strikes, and impose budget austerity across the
board. Incredibly, Bersani has been one of Monti’s warmest admirers.
Bersani has not learned the lesson of Weimar Germany, when the Social
Democrats (SPD) supported Hunger Chancellor Heinrich Brüning’s austerity
program, wrecking the economy and the political system, and opening the
door to National Socialism.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mediobanca concedes that a Bersani-Monti tandem will be weak, and
might need more support from smaller parties, leading to instability
with early elections likely in the short term. Although the Common Good
will have a majority in the Chamber of Deputies due to the majority
bonus, there is no bonus in the Senate, where most members are directly
elected by winning their districts. This is where the Common Good plus
Monti may fall short.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Some might say that Italians can choose among a genocidal professor,
a party hack, a genial satyr, and a scurrilous clown. How did the
current situation arise?
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>During the Obama years, the first goal of the US
intelligence community has been to destroy the Berlusconi government,
for geopolitical reasons. Based on Berlusconi’s close personal
relationship with Putin, he had secured for Italy an important role in
the construction of the Nordstream pipeline, and an even more important
participation in the Southstream pipeline -- both projects which
Washington wanted to sabotage.</b></span></blockquote>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Berlusconi also made overtures to President Lukashenko of Belarus,
much demonized in Foggy Bottom. The State Department wants to turn the
European Union against Putin’s Russia, but the pro-US eurocrats and
eurogarchs complained that Italy was becoming an advocate for Moscow
within the Brussels bureaucracy. Lucia Annunziata wrote in <i>La Stampa</i>
of May 25, 2009 under the title “The Shadow of a Plot” that
center-right circles believed US-Italian relations were being hurt by
“the excessive closeness of premier Silvio Berlusconi to the Russian
Prime Minister Putin.”
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The <b><i>London Economist</i> commented: Italy is one of the countries
which have gotten much closer to Moscow than Washington desires,
starting from the [August 2008] crisis in Georgia. By 2010 at the
latest, US agencies were fully mobilized to overthrow Berlusconi.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>State Department campaign to topple Berlusconi, 2008-2011</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One part of this effort involved Gianfranco Fini, the former
neofascist whom Berlusconi had made President of the Chamber of Deputies
in 2008. Fini had been a member of the official neofascist party. <b>In
July 2010, after a faction fight, Fini was expelled from Berlusconi’s
party, managing to take with him 34 deputies and 10 senators in a move
which weakened, but did not destroy, Berlusconi’s governing majority. It
was later revealed that Fini’s actions had been closely coordinated
with the US embassy in Rome.
</b><b>
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During <b>2009, David Thorne took over as US ambassador to Italy.
Thorne was a Yale roommate of John Kerry, who has just become US
Secretary of State. Thorne, like Kerry and the Bushes, is a member of
the infamous Skull and Bones secret society, and is the twin brother of
Kerry’s ex-wife. Thorne’s first meeting on becoming ambassador was with
Fini, and not with Berlusconi. Fini is also reported to be a close
personal friend of Nancy Pelosi, when Speaker of the House had the same
job as Fini. (Il Fatto Quotidiano, September 15, 2010)
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fini, true to form, is now a part of the pro-austerity With Monti
For Italy coalition. Bur despite his US backing, Fini may be close to
the last hurrah. He had rented a theater in Agrigento, Sicily for a
major appearance, but found the premises empty except for a few dozen
supporters.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>When the Fini operation failed, the CIA turned to exposés of the
wild parties at Berlusconi’s mansion in Arcore, near Milan, feeding an
immense international propaganda campaign.</b> In December 2009, Berlusconi
was struck on the face and seriously injured by an alabaster model of
the Milan Cathedral. <b>Italian judges, some of them politically motivated,
pursued scores of legal actions against Berlusconi. One of these
judges, Ilda Boccassini, was a sympathizer of the left countergang Lotta
Continua well into the 1980s. Wikileaks documents made public in
December 2010 confirmed the deep hostility of the State Department to
Berlusconi.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Giorgio Napolitano, Henry Kissinger’s favorite communist</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The coup that finally ousted Berlusconi in November 2011 was managed
by Giorgio Napolitano, the president of the Italian Republic and thus
the head of state. The Italian presidency has often been almost a
ceremonial office, but it acquires significant powers when governments
fall, which is frequently. Napolitano has vastly expanded these powers.
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For most of his life,<b> Napolitano has been an active member of the
Italian Communist Party. He belonged to the right-wing faction around
Giorgio Amendola - Napolitano was known as Skinny Giorgio, and Amendola
as Fat Giorgio. It has recently been revealed that between 1977 and
1981, Napolitano conducted secret meetings with the Carter
administration’s ambassador to Rome, Richard Gardner of the Trilateral
Commission. These meetings only became public knowledge in 2005, with
the publication of Gardner’s memoirs, Mission Italy. This puts
Napolitano in contact with the US embassy during the kidnapping and
murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, in whose death US
intelligence agencies played an important role.
</b><b>
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Henry Kissinger once called Napolitano “my favorite communist.” </b> <i>Business Week</i>
referred to him as the point man in Italy for the New York Council on
Foreign Relations. The Italian press has dubbed him King George. But <b>
thanks in large part to Putin’s support for the Italian prime minister,
it took the CIA two years to overthrow Berlusconi. In the end, only
economic and financial warfare, plus Napolitano’s treachery, would prove
decisive. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b><b>
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mario Monti: Bilderberg, trilateral, Goldman Sachs</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In October 2011, the Yale-educated economist Mario Monti, a
eurogarch of the Brussels Commission from 1994 to 1999, was president of
the Bocconi University of Milan, a business school. He had worked on
the Santer, Prodi, and Barroso commissions in Brussels. He was and
remains the European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, founded by
David Rockefeller, as well as a member of the secretive Bilderberg
group. He was also a consultant for Goldman Sachs and Coca-Cola.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>While Berlusconi was under siege by the Anglo-Americans, Napolitano
plotted for months to make Monti the kingpin of a regime of technocrats -
supposedly nonpartisan experts who did not represent any political
party and could therefore more readily impose pitiless austerity. This
was a formula the International Monetary Fund had been trying to force
on Italy for 30 years and more.
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A modern coup d’état using spreads, not tanks</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The indispensable ingredient in the Napolitano-Monti coup was a
broad-based and coordinated attack on Italian government bonds by Wall
Street, the City of London, and their European satellites. This attack
involved threats by ratings agencies to downgrade Italian debt, backed
up by massive derivatives speculation against the bonds using credit
default swaps (CDS) to increase the interest-rate premium - or spread -
paid by Italy compared to Germany in borrowing. (The agencies were later
investigated for fraud by Judge Michele Ruggiero of Trani.) Of course,
the European Central Bank could at any time have wiped out the
speculators by purchasing large quantities of Italian bonds in the open
market and driving up the price.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>But Napolitano and Monti knew that they could count on the new boss
of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi to sabotage the Italian bonds.
Draghi took over from the Frenchman Trichet in the night of Halloween
2011, and the attack on Italy began immediately on November 1.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>During the summer of 2011, Berlusconi had resisted
demands for draconian austerity, perhaps because he knew that Italy was
too big to fail and that sooner or later Wall Street and London would
have to back off.</b> He was vilified for a lack of civic virtue. During the
final attack on Berlusconi, Italian bond yields reached 7%, and the
famous spread peaked at 575 basis points over the rate on German bonds.
<b>The <i>New York Times</i> cited reports that Draghi “had restricted…
purchases of Italian bonds to put more pressure on Mr. Berlusconi to
quit” and to extort more austerity from Italy. “If so, the pressure
worked.” (NYT, November 9, 2011) The parliament was in panic.</b></span></blockquote>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>On November 8, 2011 Napolitano appointed Monti, who had never been
elected to any public office, as senator for life. This also meant
immunity from prosecution for life, unless and until the Italian Senate
voted to take this parliamentary immunity away.</b> Also on November 8,
Berlusconi concluded that he had lost his parliamentary majority. On
November 10, 2011, the new senator for life Monti met with Napolitano at
the Quirinal Palace for a two-hour discussion of economic “growth” by
means of “structural reforms.” Napolitano still ridiculed rumors that he
would make Monti the next prime minister. On the same day, Obama called
Napolitano to assure him of US support in his management of the
post-Berlusconi crisis. Just this month, Napolitano visited Obama with
the obvious goal of getting more US support for Monti.
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Berlusconi and other politicians like the anti-corruption activist
Di Pietro were pressing for early elections to let the Italian people
show what they wanted. But Napolitano was intent on carrying out his
cold coup: “markets trumped traditional democratic processes,” wrote the
</b><b><i>New York Times</i> on December 2, 2011. On November 13, Napolitano
officially charged Monti with forming a government of non-party
austerity technocrats, and Monti won a vote of confidence in the Chamber
of Deputies by 556 to 61. Only the Northern League opposed Monti. This
lopsided vote recalled a similar one carried out in the resort town of
Vichy, France on July 10,1940 in which the National Assembly voted
dictatorial powers for Marshal Pétain, effectively replacing the Third
French Republic with a fascist regime. On that day, the vote -- managed
by the infamous Pierre Laval -- had been 569 in favor, 80 against, and
18 abstentions.
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Monti’s cabinet was composed of little-known figures, mainly from
northern Italy, with Catholic, academic, or military backgrounds. One
who has become infamous is Labor Minister Elsa Fornero, a professor who
cried in public over her own cruelty when she presented her anti-retiree
measures. <b>There was the impression that the Monti cabinet were bit
players reading lines that had been written by the IMF and the ECB.
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Presidential powers from von Hindenburg to Napolitano</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Napolitano was following in the footsteps of German Reich President
Field Marshal von Hindenburg, who pushed aside the Reichstag
(parliament) as the maker of governments when he named the austerity
enforcer Heinrich Brüning as chancellor in March, 1930. After this
point, no German government could obtain a governing majority, and all
relied on Hindenburg’s emergency powers to stay in office -- including
von Papen, von Schleicher, and finally Hitler in the first weeks of
1933. These were all called presidential governments, as Monti’s has
been. By relegating the parliament to irrelevance, von Hindenburg
contributed mightily to the atrophy and death of German democracy.
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>At the time, I called attention to the obvious coup d’état by
Goldman Sachs and its allies, with a similar operation in Greece around
the same time. Paolo Becchi, Professor of the Philosophy of
Jurisprudence at the University of Genoa, noted that Napolitano “telling
a technocrat from Brussels to form a government is nothing but a coup
d’état ordered by powerful forces, partly from outside Italy, and
managed by the President of the Republic.” Up until now, the bankers had
been willing to govern indirectly, masking their power with the faces
of politicians.</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, the bankers wanted to seize power directly: “But it was
necessary at least to keep up appearances. With an attitude which is
typical of all the followers of Cataline [who attempted a coup against
the Roman Republic in the time of Cicero],<b> Monti’s main concern was to
seize power with legal means.” Becchi added: “In the moment when
political power is brought down to the level of financial power, a coup
d’état is always possible, and so easy to carry out that almost nobody
realizes it.” (Libero, December 1, 2011)
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Monti’s economic measures aimed at shifting an initial
€24 billion over three years of the cost of the economic depression away
from bankers and speculators and onto the shoulders of working people.</b>
The minimum of years on the job to obtain a pension was raised from 40
years to 42 years and one month for men. The minimum age for old-age
pensions was raised from 60 years to 62 and then to 66 in 2018.
Increases in pension payments would generally be frozen. The property
tax (IMU) was increased by 30% and extended to resident homeowners, who
had previously been exempt. The value added tax (IVA) was raised from
21% to 23%. As camouflage, a luxury tax on yachts, private planes, and
Ferraris was introduced. Only the Northern League and Di Pietro voted
against these measures.</span></blockquote>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then came a push to make Italy a hire and fire society on the
American model, striking down protections that had been in place for
decades. Taxi drivers, pharmacists, doctors, lawyers, and notaries were
deprived of minimum fees for their services, and their professions were
deregulated.
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Thanks to Monti’s measures, the Italian unemployment rate has risen
from 8.5% in November 2011 to 11.2% in February 2013, the worst in 13
years. Almost 3 million Italians are out of work, with 644,000 or 29% of
them laid off on Monti’s watch. Youth unemployment is now at an
all-time record of 37%. By December of 2012, industrial production,
after falling every months since Monti took power, was down by 7%
compared to December 2011.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grillo: Endless referendums, endless instability</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The early Northern League told Italians and foreigners and
southerners were responsible for their problems. Grillo blames
politicians and political parties. Bersani’s support for Monti’s
austerity, combined with Berlusconi’s personal excesses, has focused new
attention on the comedian Beppe Grillo and his 5SM. Grillo may well
emerge as the big winner of these elections. Grillo has a recent
precedent: the comedian Guglielmo Giannini, who in 1944 founded the Man
In the Street (uomo qualunque) movement, an Italian precursor of French
poujadisme.
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br />Giannini appealed to the angry postwar petty bourgeoisie with
populist themes of anti-politics, anti-politicians, anti-corruption,
anti-government, deregulation, and anti-taxes. Grillo uses many of the
techniques of Giannini, such as obscene and abusive slogans, or mocking
the names of his opponents: for Grillo, Monti becomes Rigor Montis.
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grillo, ignoring the lessons of the Weimar Republic, recommends
hyper-democracy as a method of governing. The basic approach to all
controversies is to organize a referendum. This can work at the level of
local government, where some of Grillo’s supporters started, but might
lead to chaos if applied nationwide. Grillo wants a referendum on
whether Italy should stay in the euro, an idea which appeals in Italy to
a few ultra-lefts, but mainly to reactionaries. Grillo (like the
framers of Weimar) focuses on the need of government to make sure that
all voices receive representation, but neglects the equally imperative
need on to promote majorities capable of deciding issues and exercising
power.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grillo mayor fails to solve pre-school issue in Parma</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The first big success for Grillo came in Parma, traditionally the
turf of the PCI/Democratic Party. Here Grillo’s candidate took over as
mayor early in 2012. Within less than a year, Grillo was greeted by
protests over the rising cost of living, especially for the mayor’s
raising of the price of pre-school for working families, while
eliminating multi-child discounts. Up to this point, Grillo had enjoyed
all the advantages of the Muslim Brotherhood under Mubarak, or of Jesse
Ventura running for governor of Minnesota, meaning the ability to
criticize without any responsibility.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>When confronted with an attack on his own record, Grillo responded
with petulance, suggesting he cannot take criticism. Grillo has been
declining television interviews, preferring to give speeches to large
crowds in the piazza of many cities. But observers note that this is
also a way to avoid probing questions from hostile journalists. In any
case, big crowds do not necessarily indicate election majorities. Grillo
portrays himself as a victim of the mass media, even though enjoys
extensive coverage in the current phase. He is rich, but campaigns in a
mini-van to increase his populist appeal.
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>According to Elisabetta Gualmini and Piergiorgio Corbetta in their
survey of the Grillo movement entitled Il Partito del Grillo (Bologna:
Il Mulino/Istituto Cattaneo, 2013), about 60% of Grillo’s support comes
from angry, male, sometimes unemployed generation X technicians, IT and
software personnel, and small businessmen born between 1969 and 1978,
and thus aged between 35 and 44. There are few pensioners, few
housewives, few women of any background. Over 50% describe themselves as
extreme left, left, or center-left, while about 30% self-described as
center-right to right. Grillo represents a protest movement that cuts
across the other political parties.
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>An ominous symptom is the dictatorship of Grillo inside the party.
In recent weeks, Grillo has ousted a regional councilor from
Emilia-Romagna for complaining on television of the lack of democracy
inside the 5SM. He also expelled a Bologna city councilwoman for taking
part in Ballaró, a widely viewed television talk show, after Grillo
banned such appearances, presumably to keep the spotlight on himself.
Previously, he had expelled three candidates from Bologna and a member
of the Ferrara city council. Grillo considers the 5SM is a trademark
which he owns. The dissidents are generally excommunicated by means of a
tweet. Does Grillo write the tweets, blog, scripts, and speeches by
himself, or is he controlled and supported by a syndicate?
</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grillo’s Svengalis: Casaleggio associates</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Some say Grillo is a synthetic candidate. According to published
accounts, Grillo’s Svengali and teleprompter is political consultant
Gianroberto Casaleggio, 58, of Casaleggio Associates, a company
specialized in political and media consulting and strategies for
Internet marketing - more or less the methods which have put Grillo
where he is today.</b></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Casaleggio and Grillo confer by telephone on average three times a
day. Casaleggio, like Grillo, sports the hair style of an aging freak,
trying to look like John Lennon, but unlike Grillo usually wears a suit.
(Tommaso Caldarelli, Giornalettismo, May 25, 2012) Casaleggio’s office
is near Piazza Scala in Milan. The dominant partner at Casaleggio
Associates is Enrico Sassoon, currently the director of the Italian
edition of the Harvard Business Review.
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Sassoon has worked for Pirelli, and is currently a leading light of
the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. Sassoon is also on the board
of the Italian branch of the Aspen Institute, where his colleagues are
mostly members of the Bilderberg group. Giampietro Zanetti, a Berlusconi
backer, writes in his blog: “Who is behind Grillo? Bilderberg and the
Aspen Institute!”
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Casaleggio, who once advised Di Pietro and Olivetti, believes that
“by 2018 the world will be divided into: the West with direct democracy
and free access to the Internet, and the enemies of freedom like
China-Russia-Middle East.” In 2020 there will be a new world war, with
the population reduced by a billion, then catharsis, and finally rebirth
in the name of Gaia, and world government.” (Marco Alfieri, La Stampa,
May 26, 2012) Is this really what Grillo’s voters want?
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grillo and Casaleggio are the authors of a book called <i>We Are At War</i>
- meaning that Grillo is the Guy Fawkes or Ludendorff of a war against
political parties as such. The need to destroy political parties is one
of the favorite themes of various disinformation channels of the US
intelligence community, who see this as part of the effort to smash the
national states and impose the Empire. A coincidence?</b></span></blockquote>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In 2012, the big political news from Europe was the emergence of
Alexis Tsipras and Syriza to fight austerity in Greece with program,
leadership, organization, and strategy, and not with utopias of
participatory democracy. Grillo is the opposite of Syriza on most
points, meaning that Italy now risks a new round of destabilization.
Which method will prevail? </b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-14578496932521827762013-01-26T13:23:00.004+00:002013-01-26T13:32:35.157+00:00wall street banksters immune from prosecution<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/23/untouchables-wall-street-prosecutions-obama">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/23/untouchables-wall-street-prosecutions-obama</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A new PBS Frontline report examines a profound failure of justice that should be causing serious social unrest</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glenn Greenwald</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 23 January 2013 </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><b></b></b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pbs" title="More from guardian.co.uk on PBS">PBS</a>' Frontline program on Tuesday night broadcast a <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/">new one-hour report</a> on one of the greatest and most shameful failings of the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/obama-administration" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Obama administration">Obama administration</a>:
the lack of even a single arrest or prosecution of any senior Wall
Street banker for the systemic fraud that precipitated the 2008 <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/financial-crisis" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Financial crisis">financial crisis</a>:
a crisis from which millions of people around the world are still
suffering. What this program particularly demonstrated was that the
Obama justice department, in particular the Chief of its Criminal
Division, Lanny Breuer, never even tried to hold the high-level
criminals accountable. </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What Obama<b> justice officials </b>did instead
is exactly what they did in the face of high-level Bush era crimes of
torture and warrantless eavesdropping: namely, <b>acted to protect the most
powerful factions in the society in the face of overwhelming evidence
of serious criminality.</b> Indeed, <b>financial elites were not only vested
with immunity for their fraud, but <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/15/goldman-sachs-record-bonus-pot">thrived as a result of it</a></b>, even as ordinary Americans <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/03/1270541/corporate-profits-wages-record/">continue to suffer the effects of that crisis</a>. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Worst of all, Obama<b> justice officials both shielded and feted these Wall Street oligarchs (who, just by the way, <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2008/06/05/analysis-shares-obama-idUKNOA53525520080605">overwhelmingly supported Obama's 2008 presidential campaign</a>)
as they simultaneously prosecuted and imprisoned powerless Americans
for far more trivial transgressions. As Harvard law professor Larry
Lessig <a href="http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully">put it</a>
two weeks ago when expressing anger over the DOJ's persecution of Aaron
Swartz: "we live in a world where the architects of the financial
crisis regularly dine at the White House." (Indeed, as "The
Untouchables" put it: while no senior Wall Street executives have been
prosecuted, "many small mortgage brokers, loan appraisers and even home
buyers" have been).</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I documented at length in my 2011 book on
America's two-tiered justice system, With Liberty and Justice for Some, <b>
the evidence that felonies were committed by Wall Street is
overwhelming.</b> That evidence directly negates the primary excuse by
Breuer (previously <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/no-crime-no-punishment.html">offered by Obama himself</a>) that the bad acts of Wall Street were not criminal. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="inline">
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</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit
agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that
knew were junk: the very definition of fraud. As former Wall Street
analyst Yves Smith wrote in her book ECONned: "What went on at Lehman
and AIG, as well as the chicanery in the CDO [collateralized debt
obligation] business, by any sensible standard is criminal." Even
lifelong Wall Street defender Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve
Chair, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/financial-crisis-panel-gr_n_531647.html">said in Congressional testimony</a> that "a lot of that stuff was just plain fraud." </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/no-crime-no-punishment.html">New York Times editorial in August</a>
explained that<b> the DOJ's excuse for failing to prosecute Wall Street
executives - that it was too hard to obtain convictions - "has always
defied common sense - and all the more so now that a fuller picture is
emerging of the range of banks' reckless and lawless activities,
including interest-rate rigging, money laundering, securities fraud and
excessive speculation."</b> The Frontline program interviewed former
prosecutors,<b> Senate staffers and regulators who unequivocally said the
same: it is inconceivable that the DOJ could not have successfully
prosecuted at least some high-level Wall Street executives - had they
tried.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What's most remarkable about all of this is not even Wall
Street had the audacity to expect the generosity of largesse they ended
up receiving. "The Untouchables" begins by recounting the massive
financial devastation the 2008 crisis wrought - "the economy was in
ruins and bankers were being blamed" - and recounts: </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"In 2009, Wall Street bankers were on the defensive, worried they could be held criminally liable for fraud. <b>With a new administration, bankers and their attorneys expected investigations and at least some prosecutions</b>."</span></blockquote>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Indeed,
the show recalls that both in Washington and the country generally,<b>
"there was broad support for prosecuting Wall Street." Nonetheless:
"four years later, there have been no arrests of any senior Wall Street
executives."</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In response to the DOJ's excuse-making that these
criminal cases are too hard to win, numerous experts - Senators, top
Hill staffers, former DOJ prosecutors - emphasized the key point:<b> Obama
officials never even tried. </b>One of the heroes of "The Untouchables",
former Democratic<b> Sen. Ted Kaufman, worked tirelessly to provide the DOJ
with all the funds it needed to ensure probing criminal investigations
and even to pressure and compel them to do so. </b>Yet when he and his staff
would meet with Breuer and other top DOJ officials, they would proudly
tout the small mortgage brokers they were pursuing, in response to which
Kafuman and his staff said: "No. Don't show me small-time mortgage guys
in California. This is totally about what went on in Wall Street. . . .
We are talking about investigating senior level Wall Street executives,
even at the Board level". (The same Lanny Breuer was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-prosecution-fine-money-laundering">recently seen announcing</a>
that the banking giant HSBC would face no criminal prosecution for its
money laundering of funds for designated terrorist groups and drug
networks on the ground that the bank was too big to risk prosecuting). </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As
Kaufman and his staffers make clear, <b>Obama officials were plainly
uninterested in pursuing criminal accountability for Wall Street. One
former staffer to both Biden and Kaufman, Jeff Connaughton, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-connaughton-the-payoff-justice-department-and-wall-street-2012-8">wrote a book</a>
in 2011 - "The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins" - devoted to
alerting the nation that the Obama DOJ refused even to try to find
criminal culprits on Wall Street.</b> In the book, this
career-Democratic-aide-turned-whistleblower details how <b>the levers of
Washington power are used to shield and protect high-level Wall Street
executives, many of whom have close ties to the leaders of both parties
and themselves are <a href="http://www.salon.com/2009/07/13/goldman/">former high-level government officials</a>.
This is a system, he makes clear, that is constituted to ensure that
those executives never face real accountability even for their most
egregious and destructive crimes.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The reason there have been no
efforts made to criminally investigate is obvious. Former banking
regulator and current securities Professor Bill Black <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/transcript1.html">told Bill Moyers in 2009</a>
that <b>"Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, and others in
the administration, with the banks, are engaged in a cover up to keep us
from knowing what went wrong." In the documentary "Inside Job", the
economist Nouriel Roubini, when asked why there have been no such
investigations, replied: "Because then you'd find the culprits."
Underlying all of that is what the Senate's second-highest ranking
Democrat, Dick Durbin, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193010.html">admitted in 2009</a>: the banks "frankly own the place".</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
harms from this refusal to hold Wall Street accountable are the same
generated by the general legal immunity the US political culture has
vested in its elites. <b>Just as was true for the protection of torturers
and illegal eavesdroppers, it ensures that there are no incentives to
avoid similar crimes in the future. It is an injustice in its own right
to allow those with power and wealth to commit destructive crimes with
impunity. It subverts democracy and warps the justice system when a
person's treatment under the law is determined not by their acts but by
their power, position, and prestige. And it exposes just how shameful is
the American penal state by contrasting the immunity given to the
nation's most powerful with the merciless and brutal punishment meted
out to its most marginalized.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The real mystery from all of this is
that it has not led to greater social unrest. </b>To some extent, both the
early version of the Tea Party and the Occupy movements were spurred by
the government's protection of Wall Street at the expense of everyone
else. Still,<b> Americans continue to be plagued by massive unemployment,
foreclosures, the threat of austerity and economic insecurity while
those who caused those problems have more power and profit than ever.
And they watch millions of their fellow citizens be put in cages for
relatively minor offenses while the most powerful are free to commit far
more serious crimes with complete impunity. Far less injustice than
this has spurred serious unrest in other societies.</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[<i>The one-hour Frontline program <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/">can be viewed in its entirety here</a>.</i>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />UPDATE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Washington Post is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/doj-criminal-division-chief-stepping-down/2013/01/23/e4331e32-64e0-11e2-b84d-21c7b65985ee_story.html">reporting this afternoon</a>
that Breuer is planning to leave the DOJ. Don't worry: he'll be fine.
Given how valiantly he protected Wall Street and HSBC, one need not be
Nate Silver to predict with a fair degree of confidence that he'll land
on his feet. When public officials use their government power to serve
the interests of private sector elites, they are often <a href="http://www.salon.com/2010/03/29/mcconnell_3/">lavishly rewarded by the faction they served upon leaving government</a>.
That's one of the key dynamics greasing the sleazy revolving door of
Washington. Beyond that, Breuer's contacts in and influence with the DOJ
will be in high demand by corporations, banks and other assorted
oligarchs seeking to exercise the legal immunity which US political
culture has bestowed on them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke </span></b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Matt Taibi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">December 13 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you've ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you've ever spent
even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or
"drug paraphernalia" in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and
longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me.</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></b>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Breuer this week signed off on a <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/10/news/companies/hsbc-money-laundering/">settlement deal </a>with
the British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every
ordinary person who's ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge.
Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars
for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a
host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading
With the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to
pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/hsbc-to-pay-record-fine-to-settle-money-laundering-charges/">"record" financial settlement</a> of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/13/Too-Big-to-Jail-HSBCs-Fine-Didnt-Fit-the-Crime.aspx#page1">five weeks of income</a> for the bank.</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The banks' laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA
probably could have spotted them from space. Breuer admitted that drug
dealers would sometimes come to HSBC's Mexican branches and "deposit
hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single
account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the
teller windows."</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></b>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This bears repeating: in order to more efficiently move as much
illegal money as possible into the "legitimate" banking institution
HSBC, drug dealers specifically designed boxes to fit through the bank's
teller windows.</b> Tony Montana's henchmen marching dufflebags of cash
into the fictional "American City Bank" in Miami was actually <i>more </i>subtle
than what the cartels were doing when they washed their cash through
one of Britain's most storied financial institutions.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Though this was not stated explicitly, the government's rationale in
not pursuing criminal prosecutions against the bank was apparently
rooted in concerns that putting executives from a "systemically
important institution" in jail for drug laundering would threaten the
stability of the financial system. The <i>New York Times</i> put it this way:</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></b>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<blockquote>
<b>
</b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Federal and state authorities have<a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/hsbc-said-to-near-1-9-billion-settlement-over-money-laundering/?ref=business"> chosen not to indict</a>
HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money
laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank
and, in the process, endanger the financial system.</span></b></blockquote>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It doesn't take a genius to see that the reasoning here is beyond
flawed. When you decide not to prosecute bankers for billion-dollar
crimes connected to drug-dealing and terrorism (some of HSBC's Saudi and
Bangladeshi clients <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-hsbc-senate-20120717,0,3041182.story">had terrorist ties</a>,
according to a Senate investigation), it doesn't protect the banking
system, it does exactly the opposite. It terrifies investors and
depositors everywhere, leaving them with the clear impression that even
the most "reputable" banks may in fact be captured institutions whose
senior executives are in the employ of (this can't be repeated often
enough) murderers<i> </i>and terrorists. Even more shocking, the
Justice Department's response to learning about all of this was to do
exactly the same thing that the HSBC executives did in the first place
to get themselves in trouble – they took money to look the other way.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And not only did they sell out to drug dealers, they sold out cheap.
You'll hear bragging this week by the Obama administration that they
wrested a record penalty from HSBC, but it's a joke. Some of the
penalties involved will literally make you laugh out loud. This is from
Breuer's <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/December/12-crm-1478.html">announcement</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a result of the government's investigation, HSBC has . . . "clawed
back" deferred compensation bonuses given to some of its most senior
U.S. anti-money laundering and compliance officers, and agreed to
partially defer bonus compensation for its most senior officials during
the five-year period of the deferred prosecution agreement.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wow. <b>So the executives who spent a decade laundering billions of dollars will have to <i>partially </i>defer
their bonuses during the five-year deferred prosecution agreement? Are
you fucking kidding me? That's the punishment? The government's
negotiators couldn't hold firm on forcing HSBC officials to <i>completely </i>wait
to receive their ill-gotten bonuses? They had to settle on making them
"partially" wait? Every honest prosecutor in America has to be puking
his guts out at such bargaining tactics. What was the Justice
Department's opening offer – asking executives to restrict their
Caribbean vacation time to nine weeks a year?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So you might ask, <b>what's the appropriate financial penalty for a bank
in HSBC's position? Exactly how much money should one extract from a
firm that has been shamelessly profiting from business with criminals
for years and years? Remember, we're talking about a company that has
admitted to a smorgasbord of serious banking crimes. If you're the
prosecutor, you've got this bank by the balls. So how much money should
you take?</b></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></b>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How about <i>all of it</i>?<i> </i>How about every last dollar
the bank has made since it started its illegal activity? How about you
dive into every bank account of every single executive involved in this
mess and take every last bonus dollar they've ever earned? Then take
their houses, their cars, the paintings they bought at Sotheby's
auctions, the clothes in their closets, the loose change in the jars on
their kitchen counters, every last freaking thing. Take it all and don't
think twice. And <i>then </i>throw them in jail.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sound harsh? It does, doesn't it? The only problem is, <b>that's exactly
what the government does just about every day to ordinary people
involved in ordinary drug cases.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It'd be interesting, for instance, to ask the residents of Tenaha,
Texas what they think about the HSBC settlement. That's the town where
local police routinely <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-profiling_wittmar10,0,6051682.story">pulled over (mostly black) motorists</a>
and, whenever they found cash, offered motorists a choice: They could
either allow police to seize the money, or face drug and money
laundering charges.</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Or we could ask <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2010/02/take_the_money_and_run.single.html">Anthony Smelley</a>,
the Indiana resident who won $50,000 in a car accident settlement and
was carrying about $17K of that in cash in his car when he got pulled
over. Cops searched his car and had drug dogs sniff around: The dogs
alerted twice. No drugs were found, but police took the money anyway.
Even after Smelley produced documentation proving where he got the money
from, Putnam County officials tried to keep the money on the grounds
that he <i>could </i>have used the cash to buy drugs in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seriously, that happened. It happens all the time, and even Lanny
Breuer's own Justice Deparment gets into the act. In 2010 alone, U.S.
Attorneys' offices deposited nearly $1.8 billion into government
accounts as a result of forfeiture cases, most of them drug cases. You
can see the Justice Department's own statistics right here:</span></div>
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If you get pulled over in America with cash and the government even
thinks it's drug money, that cash is going to be buying your local
sheriff or police chief a <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91490480">new Ford Expedition</a> tomorrow afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And that's just the icing on the cake. The real prize you get for
interacting with a law enforcement officer, if you happen to be
connected in any way with drugs, is a preposterous, outsized criminal
penalty. Right here in New York, one out of every seven cases that ends
up in court is a marijuana case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just the other day, while Breuer was announcing his slap on the wrist
for the world's most prolific drug-launderers, I was in arraignment
court in Brooklyn watching how they deal with actual people. A public
defender explained the absurdity of drug arrests in this city. New York
actually has fairly liberal laws about pot – <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/05/of-50000-marijuana-arrest_n_1078023.html">police aren't supposed to bust you</a>
if you possess the drug in private. So how do police work around that
to make 50,377 pot-related arrests in a single year, just in this city?
Tthat was 2010; the 2009 number was 46,492.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"What they do is, they stop you on the street and tell you to empty
your pockets," the public defender explained. "Then the instant a pipe
or a seed is out of the pocket – boom, it's 'public use.' And you get
arrested."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People spend nights in jail, or worse. In New York, even if they let
you off with a misdemeanor and time served, you have to pay $200 and
have your DNA extracted – a process that you have to pay for (it costs
50 bucks). But even beyond that, you won't have search very far for
stories of draconian, idiotic sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just ask Cameron Douglas, the son of Michael Douglas, who got <a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2012/05/cameron-douglas-son-actor-michael-douglas-given-longest-ever-federal-prison-sentence-im">five years in jail</a>
for simple possession. His jailers kept him in solitary for 23 hours a
day for 11 months and denied him visits with family and friends.
Although your typical non-violent drug inmate isn't the white child of a
celebrity, he's usually a minority user who gets far stiffer sentences
than rich white kids would for committing the same crimes – we all
remember the crack-versus-coke controversy in which federal and state
sentencing guidelines left (predominantly minority) crack users serving
sentences up to 100 times harsher than those meted out to the
predominantly white users of powdered coke.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The institutional bias in the crack sentencing guidelines was a
racist outrage, but this HSBC settlement blows even that away. By
eschewing criminal prosecutions of major drug launderers on the grounds
(the patently absurd grounds, incidentally) that their prosecution might
imperil the world financial system, the government has now formalized
the double standard.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They're now saying that if you're not an important cog in the global
financial system, you can't get away with anything, not even simple
possession. You will be jailed and whatever cash they find on you
they'll seize on the spot, and convert into new cruisers or toys for
your local SWAT team, which will be deployed to kick in the doors of
houses where more such inessential economic cogs as you live. If you
don't have a systemically important job, in other words, the
government's position is that your assets may be used to finance your
own political disenfranchisement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the other hand, if you are an important person, and you work for a
big international bank, you won't be prosecuted even if you launder
nine billion dollars. Even if you actively collude with the people at
the very top of the international narcotics trade, your punishment will
be far smaller than that of the person at the very bottom of the world
drug pyramid. You will be treated with more deference and sympathy than a
junkie passing out on a subway car in Manhattan (using two seats of a
subway car is a <a href="http://gothamist.com/2010/01/26/nypd_crackdown_on_subway_riders_usi.php">common prosecutable offense</a>
in this city). An international drug trafficker is a criminal and
usually a murderer; the drug addict walking the street is one of his
victims. But thanks to Breuer, we're now in the business, officially, of
jailing the victims and enabling the criminals.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the disgrace to end all disgraces. It doesn't even make any
sense. There is no reason why the Justice Department couldn't have
snatched up everybody at HSBC involved with the trafficking, prosecuted
them criminally, and worked with banking regulators to make sure that
the bank survived the transition to new management. As it is, HSBC has
had to replace virtually all of its senior management. The guilty
parties were apparently not so important to the stability of the world
economy that they all had to be left at their desks.</span></b></div>
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</span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>So there is absolutely no reason they couldn't all face criminal
penalties.</b> That they are not being prosecuted is cowardice and pure
corruption, nothing else. And <b>by approving this settlement, Breuer
removed the government's moral authority to prosecute anyone for any
other drug offense. Not that most people didn't already know that the
drug war is a joke, but this makes it official.</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/opinion/hsbc-too-big-to-indict.html?_r=1&"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/opinion/hsbc-too-big-to-indict.html?_r=1&</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Editorial</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Too Big to Indict </b></span><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">December 11, 2012 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Andrew Rosenthal,</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
It is a dark day for the rule of law. Federal and state authorities have<a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/hsbc-said-to-near-1-9-billion-settlement-over-money-laundering/?ref=business"> chosen not to indict</a>
HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money
laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank
and, in the process, endanger the financial system. They also have not
charged any top HSBC banker in the case, though it boggles the mind that
a bank could launder money as HSBC did without anyone in a position of
authority making culpable decisions. </span></b>
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Clearly, the government has bought into the notion that too big to fail
is too big to jail. When prosecutors choose not to prosecute to the full
extent of the law in a case as egregious as this, the law itself is
diminished. The deterrence that comes from the threat of criminal
prosecution is weakened, if not lost. </span></div>
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<b>In the HSBC case, prosecutors may want the public to focus on <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/hsbc-to-pay-record-fine-to-settle-money-laundering-charges/" title="A DealBook report">the $1.92 billion settlement</a>,
which includes forfeiture of $1.26 billion and other penalties, as well
as requirements to improve its internal controls and submit to the
oversight of an outside monitor for the next five years. But even large
financial settlements are small compared with the size of international
major banks. More important, once criminal sanctions are considered off
limits, penalties and forfeitures become just another cost of doing
business, a risk factor to consider on the road to profits. </b></span></div>
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There is no doubt that the wrongdoing at HSBC was serious and pervasive.
Several foreign banks have been fined in recent years for flouting
United States sanctions against transferring money through American
subsidiaries on behalf of clients in countries like Iran, Sudan and
Cuba. HSBC’s actions were even more egregious. <b>According to several law
enforcement officials with knowledge of the inquiry, prosecutors found
that, for years, HSBC had also moved tainted money from Mexican drug
cartels and Saudi banks with ties to terrorist groups. </b></span></div>
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Those findings echo those of a Congressional report, <a href="http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/media/hsbc-exposed-us-finacial-system-to-money-laundering-drug-terrorist-financing-risks" title="A Homeland Security committee announcement">issued in July</a>,
which said that between 2001 and 2010, HSBC exposed the American
“financial system to money laundering and terrorist financing risks.”
Prosecutors and Congressional investigators were also alarmed by
indications that senior HSBC officials might have been complicit in the
illegal activity and that the bank did not tighten its lax controls
against money laundering even after repeated urgings from federal
officials. </span></b></div>
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<b>Yet government officials will argue that it is counterproductive to levy
punishment so severe that a bank could be destroyed in the process.
That may be true as far as it goes. But if banks operating at the center
of the global economy cannot be held fully accountable, the solution is
to reduce their size by breaking them up and restricting their
activities — not shield them and their leaders from prosecution for
illegal activities. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In a Christian home in a Shiite suburb of Beirut, images of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah share mantel and wall space with the Virgin Mary. </b></span><br />
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leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, and says she feels and free to worship
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The face of the revered Shiite militant leader appears on posters, a
calendar, and in several photographs nestled amid those of Christian
homeowner Randa Gholam's family members. Mr. Nasrallah is, Ms. Gholam
asserts amid a string of superlatives, “a gift from God.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Lebanon" target="_self">Lebanon</a>’s sectarian divides are legendary, and the residents of the historically Christian neighborhood of <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Haret+Hreik" target="_self">Harat Hreik</a>, now a Hezbollah stronghold, remember well the civil war that set <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Beirut" target="_self">Beirut</a>
on fire. They were literally caught in the middle of some of the most
vicious fighting, with factions firing shots off at one another from
either side of their apartment buildings.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>But in the intervening years, as Hezbollah cemented its control over the suburb of <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Dahieh" target="_self">Dahiyeh</a>,
which includes Harat Hreik, the militant group has been an unexpected
source of stability and even protection for the few remaining Christian
families. Just a few blocks away from Nasrallah’s compound is St.
Joseph’s Church, a vibrant church that Maronite Christians from across
Beirut flock to every Sunday. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>“I feel honored to be here. They
are honest. They are not extremists. It’s not like everyone describes,”
Gholam says. “I can speak on behalf of all my Christian friends. They
would say the same thing." </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Christians living in Harat Hreik
are a bit of an anomaly, to be sure. Christians represent a sizable
population in Lebanon, though no census has been held in decades. And
while Beirut's neighborhoods are gradually becoming more integrated,
they still divide largely along religious lines. The fragile peace is
under deep strain as regional tensions swirl because of the conflict
next door in <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Syria" target="_self">Syria</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not fanning the flames</span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In
Hezbollah's early days, its creed was "virulent," and in the past, it
may have been responsible for fanning some of those flames. But as
Hezbollah gained power and joined the political system, that changed,
says Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Endowment Middle East Center.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“It
doesn’t carry with it an anti-Christian strain anymore," he says.
"That’s almost entirely gone. It’s not in their rhetoric, it’s not in
their creed.” </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently,
when the Shiite holiday of Ashura was approaching, the streets were
choked with residents shopping and passing out sweets and blanketed with
black banners commemorating the martyrdom of Hussein Ali. But <b>
Christians live openly here, and they describe Hezbollah as a tolerant
group that has steadfastly supported their presence, even sending <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Christmas" target="_self">Christmas</a> cards to Christian neighbors like Gholam.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gholam, who throws a party every year in honor of Nasrallah’s birthday
and places a photo of him in her Christmas tree, is certainly an
anomaly. But other<b> Christian families also speak approvingly of their
life under Hezbollah, especially when compared to its predecessor, Amal,
which they say forced many Christian residents to sell their homes. In
contrast, Hezbollah extended financial support to the Christian families
when Dahiyeh needed rebuilding after the civil war and the 2006 war
with <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Israel" target="_self">Israel</a>.</b></span>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rony Khoury, a Maronite Christian who was born in Harat Hreik and
still lives in the same apartment, says he feels comfortable drinking
alcohol on his front porch, in full view of members of Hezbollah, and
his wife feels no pressure to don a head scarf or follow other rules
governing Muslim women's attire. They have property in a predominantly
Christian area of Beirut, but have no desire to move.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“After
Hezbollah came, we didn’t have any worries,” Mr. Khoury says, citing
safe streets. "The security is No. 1 in the world. I leave my car open, I
forget something outside…. It's very safe now, under Hezbollah."</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Only
between 10 and 20 of the pre-civil war Christian families remain, out
of the thousands who lived there before the fighting. While the numbers
are low, Khoury insists that many would come back, if only they could
afford it. But property values have climbed, and many of those who left
can’t afford to move back.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, there are calculations
behind Hezbollah's magnanimity. Hezbollah’s political alliance with the
Lebanese Christian political party, the Free Patriotic Movement, is
important to the group, and it “bends over backward to keep those
relations comfortable,” Mr. Salem says.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It might also be a way to
one-up Sunnis in Lebanon, with whom Shiites are constantly vying for
dominance. “They pride themselves on saying they’re more tolerant, more
open than Sunnis. In Lebanon, it’s a point of pride,” Salem says.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Both Khoury and Gholam, as well as neighborhood Shiites who dropped by their homes, said <b>there are far more issues with Sunnis.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Shiite
extremists like Hezbollah, they come to our church" as a show of
support, says Khoury. "But Sunni extremists, like Salafis, they kill me,
they kill you."</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Things could change</span></h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ultimately,
it is Hezbollah’s foreign backers dictating the mood in Harat Hreik. <b>If
it became politically expedient for Hezbollah to abandon its acceptance
of Christian neighbors, Hezbollah would be compelled to make life
difficult for them.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“For <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Iran" target="_self">Iran</a>
and Syria, their main backers, Hezbollah is mainly a strategic force
against Israel. That’s the point – not creating an Islamic state or
fighting a sectarian war," Salem says. “Hezbollah is a very top-down
organization. If Iran decrees something else, something else will
happen.”</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But that’s not something Gholam can fathom.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I will never even think about Hezbollah giving anyone a hard time. I can't even think about answering that question," she says.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Obama II : la purge et le pacte </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thierry Meyssan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Réseau Voltaire </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Damas, 27 novembre 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>M. et Mme Kerry, M. et Mme Assad, lors d’un déjeuner privé, dans un restaurant damascène, en 2009. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Disposant d’une légitimité renforcée par sa
réélection, le président Barack Obama se prépare à lancer une nouvelle
politique étrangère : tirant les conclusions de l’affaiblissement
économique relatif des États-Unis, il renonce à gouverner seul le monde.
Ses forces poursuivent leur départ d’Europe et leur désengagement
partiel du Moyen-Orient pour se positionner autour de la Chine. Dans
cette perspective, il veut à la fois distendre l’alliance russo-chinoise
en formation et partager le fardeau du Moyen-Orient avec la Russie. Il
est par conséquent prêt à appliquer l’accord sur la Syrie, conclu le 30
juin à Genève (déploiement d’une Force de paix de l’ONU principalement
composée de troupes de l’OTSC, maintien au pouvoir de Bachar el-Assad
s’il est plébiscité par son peuple).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cette <b>nouvelle politique étrangère se heurte à de fortes résistances </b>à
Washington. <b>En juillet, des fuites organisées dans la presse avaient
fait capoter l’accord de Genève et avaient contraint Kofi Annan à la
démission. Le sabotage semble avoir été ourdi par un groupe d’officiers
supérieurs qui n’admettent pas la fin de leur rêve d’empire global.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">À aucun moment cette problématique n’a été évoquée lors de la
campagne électorale présidentielle, les deux principaux candidats
s’accordant sur le même virage politique et ne s’opposant que sur la
manière de le présenter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aussi Barack Obama a t-il attendu le soir de sa victoire pour donner
le signal d’une purge discrètement préparée depuis des mois. <b>La
démission du général David Petraeus de ses fonctions de directeur
général de la CIA a été largement médiatisée, mais elle n’était que le
hors d’œuvre. Les têtes de bien d’autres officiers supérieurs vont
rouler dans la poussière.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La purge touche d’abord le Commandeur suprême de l’OTAN et commandant
de l’EuCom (amiral James G. Stravidis), qui termine son tour, et son
successeur prévu (le général John R. Allen). Elle se poursuit avec
l’ex-commandant de l’AfriCom (général William E. Ward) et son successeur
depuis un an (général Carter Ham). Elle devrait emporter également le
patron du Bouclier antimissile (général Patrick J. O’Reilly) et d’autres
encore de moindre importance.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Chaque fois, les officiers supérieurs sont soit accusés d’affaires de
mœurs, soit de détournements de fonds. </b>La <b>presse</b> US s’est rassasiée de
détails sordides sur le triangle amoureux impliquant Petraeus, Allen et
la biographe du premier,<b> Paula Broadwell, en passant sous silence que
celle-ci est lieutenant colonel du Renseignement militaire. Selon toute
vraisemblance, elle a été infiltrée dans l’entourage des deux généraux
pour les faire tomber.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La purge à Washington a été précédée, en juillet, de l’élimination de
responsables étrangers qui s’opposaient à la nouvelle politique et
étaient impliqués dans la Bataille de Damas. Tout s’est passé comme si
Obama avait laissé faire le ménage. On pense par exemple à la mort
prématurée du général Omar Suleiman (Égypte) venu effectuer des examens
dans un hôpital états-unien, ou à l’attentat contre le prince Bandar ben
Sultan (Arabie saoudite), sept jours plus tard.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Il reste à Barack Obama à composer son <b>nouveau cabinet</b> en trouvant
des hommes et des femmes capables de faire accepter sa nouvelle
politique. Il compte surtout sur l’ancien candidat démocrate à
l’élection présidentielle et <b>actuel président de la Commission des
affaires étrangères du Sénat, John Kerry. D’ores et déjà Moscou a fait
savoir que sa nomination serait bienvenue. Surtout, Kerry est connu pour
être « <i>un admirateur de Bachar el-Assad</i> » (<i>The Washington Post</i>) qu’il a souvent rencontré dans les années précédentes [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176644.html#nb1" id="nh1" rel="footnote" title="« For besieged Syrian dictator Assad, only exit may be body bag », par Joby (...)">1</a>].</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Reste à savoir si les démocrates peuvent accepter de perdre un siège
au Sénat, et si Kerry prendra le secrétariat d’État ou celui de la
Défense.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Dans le cas, où il prendrait le département d’État, la Défense
échoirait à Michèle Flournoy ou à Ashton Carter qui poursuivraient les
restrictions budgétaires en cours. Dans le cas ou Kerry prendrait la Défense, le département d’État
reviendrait à Susan Rice, ce qui ne manquerait pas de poser quelques
problèmes : elle s’était montrée fort discourtoise lors des derniers
veto russe et chinois, et ne paraît pas avoir le sang froid pour ce
poste. </b>Au demeurant, les Républicains tentent de lui faire barrage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>John Brennan, connu pour ses méthodes particulièrement sales et
brutales, pourrait devenir le prochain directeur de la CIA. Il serait
chargé de tourner la page des années Bush en liquidant les jihadistes
qui travaillèrent pour l’Agence et en démantelant l’Arabie saoudite qui
n’est plus d’aucune utilité. À défaut, la mission serait confiée à
Michael Vickers, voire à Michael Morell, l’homme de l’ombre qui se
tenait aux côtés de George W. Bush un certain 11-Septembre et lui dicta
son comportement.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Le sioniste et néanmoins réaliste Antony Blinken pourrait devenir
conseiller national de sécurité. Il pourrait réveiller le plan qu’il
avait élaboré, en 99 à Shepherdstown, pour Bill Clinton : faire la paix
au Proche-Orient en s’appuyant sur… les Assad.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Avant même la nomination du nouveau cabinet, le virage politique
s’est déjà concrétisé avec la reprise des négociations secrètes avec
Téhéran. En effet, la nouvelle donne exige d’abandonner la politique
d’isolement de l’Iran et de reconnaître enfin la République islamique
comme une puissance régionale. Première conséquence : les travaux de
construction du gazoduc qui reliera South Pars, le plus grand champ
gazier du monde, à Damas, puis à la Méditerranée et à l’Europe ont
repris ; un investissement de 10 milliards de dollars qui ne pourra être
rentabilisé qu’avec une paix durable dans la région.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La nouvelle politique étrangère d’Obama II va bouleverser le
Moyen-Orient en 2013 dans le sens inverse de celui annoncé par les
médias occidentaux et du Golfe.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-40738510956052627292012-11-26T12:13:00.000+00:002012-11-26T12:17:38.786+00:00gaza, 6 raisons pour une offensive selon beyrouth<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/789203/Les_resultats_de_l%27offensive_israelienne_a_Gaza_au_coeur_de_toutes_les_analyses.html">http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/789203/Les_resultats_de_l%27offensive_israelienne_a_Gaza_au_coeur_de_toutes_les_analyses.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Liban </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Les résultats de l’offensive israélienne à Gaza au cœur de toutes les analyses</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scarlett HADDAD</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">24/11/2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="tagline">Éclairage</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="tagline"> </span></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>L’entrée en vigueur de la
trêve à Gaza permet aux protagonistes de reprendre leur souffle et aux
analystes de prendre du recul par rapport à cette confrontation
sanglante, en dressant les bilans des pertes et des profits.</b><br /><b>Au
Liban, les divisions politiques internes se reflètent sur les approches
et en gros, on peut dire que le 8 Mars considère que le Hamas, la
résistance palestinienne et l’axe dit de la résistance en général ont
remporté une victoire éclatante, alors que le 14 Mars préfère amplifier
les acquis américains et égyptiens et ne parle pas d’une défaite
israélienne.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Si le 14 Mars se réfère en général au bilan en vies humaines
et en destructions pour affirmer qu’on ne peut pas parler d’une victoire
palestinienne, le 8 Mars lui rappelle les objectifs déclarés et cachés
de l’opération israélienne contre Gaza. Selon les sources du 8 Mars, <b>le
Premier ministre israélien aurait donc lancé son offensive pour cinq
raisons : d’abord à cause des élections législatives</b> qui devraient se
tenir en janvier 2013. <b>Netanyahu aurait voulu rétablir la fameuse
équation de dissuasion qui permettait à Israël d’empêcher les
Palestiniens de lancer leurs missiles par crainte des représailles.
Deuxièmement, Netanyahu a voulu, à travers cette opération, tester le
président américain fraîchement réélu et le placer dans une situation
difficile face au Congrès qui, lui, est acquis au lobby juif</b>. À ce
sujet, il est bon de préciser que depuis le premier instant de
l’offensive israélienne, <b>le président américain s’est empressé de
déclarer son appui total à Israël en mettant en avant son droit à se
défendre. Mais en même temps, il a lancé une vaste opération
diplomatique pour tenter de mettre un terme à l’escalade et empêcher
Israël de se lancer dans une offensive terrestre. Obama a ainsi contacté
les Français, les Britanniques, les Turcs et les Égyptiens pour leur
demander d’intervenir. Troisièmement, le Premier ministre israélien a
voulu tester les véritables intentions du nouveau président égyptien
qu’il n’arrivait pas vraiment à cerner. D’un côté, Mohammad Morsi avait
annoncé son attachement aux accords déjà conclus (Camp David) et en même
temps, au Sinaï, la situation devenait de plus en plus instable et donc
menaçante pour Israël. Quatrièmement, le Premier ministre israélien
voulait tester le bouclier antimissile, installé en Israël et appelé le
dôme d’acier. Enfin, il voulait aussi tester les capacités
palestiniennes et les armes qui leur ont été remises par les Iraniens.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b>Des sources palestiniennes vont encore plus loin et affirment que
l’offensive israélienne était aussi destinée à éliminer l’aile dure au
sein du Hamas dont Ahmad al-Jaabari était l’une des principales figures
pour faciliter le projet de l’intégration du Hamas dans un processus
politique</b>, dans la foulée de la prise du pouvoir dans le monde arabe par
les organisations islamistes évoluant autour des Frères musulmans et
agréées par les États-Unis et par certains États arabes.<b> Ces mêmes
sources affirment que le projet final israélien est de pacifier Gaza
pour la transformer en une sorte de province égyptienne, alors que la
Cisjordanie serait placée sous le contrôle de la Jordanie, liquidant
ainsi la cause palestinienne. Ce n’est pas un hasard, estiment ces
sources, si les protestations ont commencé dans le royaume hachémite,
réclamant la chute du roi, alors que jusqu’à présent, celui-ci était
épargné...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Les Israéliens ont donc lancé leurs avions dans le ciel de
Gaza bombardant intensivement des cibles déjà choisies selon les
banques de données de leurs services de renseignements. Ils ont réédité
le scénario de 2006 au Liban, lorsqu’ils croyaient à travers les frappes
aériennes intensives avoir détruit les principales rampes de lancement
de missiles à Gaza notamment ceux de longue portée (Fajr 5) fournies par
les Iraniens. En même temps, les Israéliens pensaient, à travers cette
offensive et l’affaiblissement de l’aile dure du Hamas, pousser le chef
de l’Autorité palestinienne Mahmoud Abbas à renoncer à son projet de
demander le 29 novembre à l’ONU l’acceptation de la Palestine comme État
observateur. Cette démarche est très importante pour Israël puisqu’en
devenant un État ayant le statut d’observateur, la Palestine obtient le
statut d’État et peut désormais déposer une plainte contre Israël devant
la Cour internationale de La Haye (qui reçoit des plaintes d’État à
État).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br />Les analystes du 8 Mars poursuivent leur lecture de l’offensive
israélienne en précisant que le premier résultat des frappes est que les
missiles à longue portée ont continué à pleuvoir sur Israël, le
domicile du chef d’état-major ayant été ainsi atteint, alors que le
Premier ministre et le ministre de la Défense ont dû descendre dans les
abris, ainsi que 3 millions d’Israéliens. Jusqu’à la dernière minute,
avant l’entrée en vigueur du cessez-le feu, les missiles palestiniens
ont continué à tomber sur Israël, pour montrer que l’arsenal de la
résistance palestinienne n’a pas été sérieusement entamé et que le
Hamas, le Jihad islamique et les autres organisations ne sont pas
affaiblis.</b> <b>Enfin, par la voix du Premier ministre de son gouvernement,
Ismaïl Haniyé a remercié officiellement tous ceux qui ont aidé les
Palestiniens, à leur tête l’Iran. Il sera donc désormais plus difficile
de détruire l’aile dure du mouvement qui a montré son efficacité sur le
terrain, malgré l’assassinat de son chef Ahmad al-Jaabari. Si donc, pour
les Israéliens, le rôle de l’Égypte comme parrain de Gaza s’est
confirmé, celui de l’Iran l’a été aussi et l’opération de récupération
des organisations palestiniennes par les Arabes dits modérés et la
Turquie est devenue plus difficile, alors que les différentes
composantes palestiniennes n’ont jamais paru aussi unies. </b>Le moins qu’on
puisse donc dire à ce stade, est que le bilan de l’offensive
israélienne est mitigé. Mais il est sans doute encore trop tôt pour
tirer toutes les conclusions. Il faudra sans doute attendre l’issue des
élections israéliennes le 23 janvier prochain pour émettre un jugement.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-21628118159290491702012-11-18T09:45:00.000+00:002012-11-18T09:45:18.103+00:00israel veut deporter les palestiniens en jordanie<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Pourquoi une nouvelle guerre contre Gaza?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>À nouveau Israël attaque Gaza et les médias internationaux relaient des images de désolation. Cependant la sidération que provoque l’horreur quotidienne de cette nouvelle guerre ne doit pas nous empêcher de l’analyser et d’en comprendre les objectifs. Thierry Meyssan répond à cette question. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thierry Meyssan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Damas, 17 novembre 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Le 14 novembre 2012, les Forces armées israéliennes ont lancé l’opération « <i>Colonne de Nuées</i> »
contre les installations administratives et militaires du Hamas dans la
Bande de Gaza. Dès le premier jour, elles ont assassiné Ahmed Jaabari,
numéro 2 de la branche armée de l’organisation palestinienne. Elles
auraient également détruit des rampes de lancement souterraines de
missiles sol-sol <i>Fajr 5</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">« <i>Colonnes de Nuées</i> » a rapidement pris une grande ampleur,
l’aviation israélienne multipliant les bombardements. L’état-major
israélien a procédé au rappel de 30 000 réservistes, rapidement étendu à
75 000 hommes au risque de désorganiser l’économie. De la sorte, <b>Israël
se met en capacité d’envahir la Bande de Gaza avec des troupes au sol. </b>Cette situation appelle plusieurs explications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pourquoi maintenant ?</span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tel-Aviv prend l’initiative alors que le pouvoir à Washington est
partiellement vacant. On attend la nomination de nouveaux secrétaires
d’État et à la Défense. Possiblement, il s’agirait de l’ambassadrice
Susan Rice et du sénateur John Kerry. Cependant, une âpre lutte, par
presse interposée, tente de disqualifier Mme Rice. Quoi qu’il en soit,
les secrétaires d’État et à la Défense sortants sont affaiblis et leurs
successeurs ne sont pas encore nommés.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identiquement Tel-Aviv avait pris une initiative similaire, l’opération « <i>Plomb durci</i> », lors de la période de transition entre les présidents Bush Jr. et Obama.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Certains commentateurs évoquent aussi la <b>proximité des élections
législatives israéliennes</b> et laissent entendre que Benjamin Netanyahu et
Avigdor Lieberman cherchent à parfaire leur image de faucons
intransigeants.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">C’est <b>peu probable. En effet, ils lancent cette attaque sans en
connaître à l’avance le résultat. Or, en 2008-2009, l’échec de « <i>Plomb durci</i> » fut fatal au gouvernement d’Ehud Olmert.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dans quel but ?</span></h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Traditionnellement les Forces armées israéliennes adaptent leurs objectifs de guerre aux occasions qui se présentent.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Au minimum, il s’agit d’affaiblir la Résistance palestinienne en
détruisant infrastructures et administrations dans la Bande de Gaza,
comme cela est fait à intervalles plus ou moins réguliers. Cependant,
l’affaiblissement du Hamas sera automatiquement profitable au Fatah en
Cisjordanie ; et ce dernier ne manquera pas de pousser un peu plus loin
sa revendication de reconnaissance d’un État palestinien par les Nations
Unies.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Au maximum,<b> « <i>Colonne de Nuées</i> » peut ouvrir la voie à un
vieux plan sioniste : la proclamation de la Jordanie comme État
palestinien, le transfert de la population de Gaza (voire aussi de
Cisjordanie) en Jordanie, et l’annexion des territoires vidés. Dans ce
cas, l’opération militaire ne doit pas viser indistinctement tous les
responsables du Hamas, mais uniquement ceux qui sont opposés à l’ancien
chef politique de l’organisation, Khaled Mechaal. Ce dernier étant
appelé à devenir le premier président d’un État palestinien de Jordanie.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Les troubles en Jordanie sont-ils liés ?</span></h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La guerre de Syrie a étouffé l’économie jordanienne. Le Royaume s’est
rapidement endetté. Le gouvernement a annoncé le 13 novembre
(c’est-à-dire la veille du déclenchement de « <i>Colonne de Nuées</i> »)
une hausse des prix de l’énergie allant jusqu’à 11 % pour les
transports publics et 53 % pour le gaz domestique</b>. Cette nouvelle a
alimenté un mouvement de contestation qui existe à l’état rampant depuis
le début de l’année. Immédiatement, environ<b> la moitié des 120 000
professeurs des écoles publiques ont fait grève.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vendredi 16, plus de 10 000 personnes ont manifesté au cœur d’Amman aux cris de : « <i>La liberté vient de Dieu !</i> », « <i>Abdallah ton temps est révolu !</i> », « <i> Le peuple veut la chute du régime !</i> ». Le cortège est parti de la mosquée Husseini et était encadré par les Frères musulmans.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Les Frères musulmans, qui ont conclu un accord avec le département
d’État US et avec le Conseil de coopération du Golfe, sont déjà au
pouvoir au Maroc, en Tunisie, en Libye, en Égypte, et à Gaza. En outre,
ils contrôlent la toute nouvelle Coalition nationale syrienne. Ils
ambitionnent de gouverner la Jordanie avec ou sans le roi Abdallah II.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Le plus célèbre des Frères musulmans jordanien est Khaled Mechaal,
ancien chef de la branche politique du Hamas. Mechaal a vécu en exil de
2001 à 2012 à Damas, sous la protection de l’État syrien. En février
2012, il a soudain accusé le gouvernement de Bachar el-Assad de réprimer
son propre peuple et a choisi de déménager au Qatar où l’émir Hamad
al-Thani s’est montré particulièrement généreux avec lui</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Les troubles en Syrie sont-ils liés ?</span></h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">En juin dernier, un accord de paix a été conclu à Genève par les
grandes puissances. Toutefois, il a été immédiatement saboté par une
faction US qui a organisé des fuites dans la presse à propos de
l’implication occidentale dans les événements, forçant ainsi le
médiateur Kofi Annan à démissionner. Cette même faction a alors par deux
fois tenté d’en finir militairement en organisant deux attaques
massives de Damas, le 18 juillet et le 26 septembre. Au vu de ces
échecs,<b> l’administration Obama est revenue à l’accord initial et s’est
engagée à le mettre en œuvre après l’élection présidentielle et le
changement de cabinet.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>L’accord prévoit le déploiement d’une Force de paix des Nations
Unies, principalement composée de contingents de l’Organisation du
Traité de sécurité collective (OTSC). Cette force aurait pour mission de
séparer les belligérants et d’arrêter les jihadistes étrangers
introduits en Syrie. En laissant la Russie se réinstaller au
Proche-Orient, Washington espère se soulager du fardeau de la sécurité
d’Israël. </b>La Russie veillerait à ce que l’État sioniste ne soit plus
attaqué et à ce qu’il n’attaque plus personne. Le retrait militaire US
du Proche-Orient pourrait donc se poursuivre et Washington retrouverait
une marge de manœuvre qu’il a perdue du fait de son tête-à-tête
permanent avec Tel-Aviv.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dans cette perspective, les partisans de l’expansionnisme israélien
doivent agir à Gaza, et éventuellement en Jordanie, avant le déploiement
russe.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quels sont les premières conclusions de la guerre en cours ?</span></h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">La guerre a mis à l’épreuve la défense anti-aérienne israélienne.
L’État sioniste a investi plusieurs centaines de millions de dollars
dans la création du « <i>Dôme d’acier</i> », un système capable d’intercepter toutes les roquettes et missiles tirés depuis Gaza ou le Sud du Liban.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ce dispositif est apparu inopérant lorsque le Hezbollah a envoyé un
drone survoler la centrale de Dimona ou lorsqu’il a testé des missiles
sol-sol Fajr-5.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Durant les trois premiers jours de « <i>Colonne de Nuées</i> », le Hamas et le Jihad islamique ont riposté aux bombardements israéliens par des salves de roquettes et missiles. Le « <i>Dôme d’acier</i> »
serait parvenu à intercepter 210 tirs sur un peu plus de 800.</b> Cependant
cette statistique ne signifie pas grand chose : le dispositif ne semble
capable d’intercepter que des roquettes assez primitives, comme les
Qassam, et être inadapté à tout armement un tant soit peu sophistiqué.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-56504727678939743492012-11-01T09:48:00.002+00:002012-11-01T10:35:00.127+00:00beirut bombing: dgse + mossad<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Sore Losers of the Syrian Crisis</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thierry Meyssan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beirut, 1 November 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In 2010, France made the choice to breath new life into its colonial policy. This led her to instigate a regime change in the Ivory Coast and Libya, and to aim for the same result in Syria. But faced with the fiasco of the latter operation, Paris got carried away by the wave of events that she herself unleashed. After having armed and trained terrorist groups in Syria, the DGSE has now struck at the heart of the Lebanese capital. </b></span></div>
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<div class="lettrine" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>During
a recent Round Table in Ankara, Admiral James Winnfeld, Vice-Chairman
of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced that Washington would
reveal its intentions toward Syria once the 6 November presidential
elections were over. He made it plainly understood to his Turkish
counterparts that a peace plan had already been negotiated with Moscow,
that Bashar al-Assad would remain in power and that the Security Council
would not authorize the creation of buffer zones.</b> For his part, Herve
Ladsous, the <b>U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping
Operations, announced that he was studying the possible deployment of
peacekeepers ("blue helmets") in Syria.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>All regional actors are preparing for the cease-fire which will be
overseen by a U.N. force composed principally by troops of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikstan). These events signify that the United
States is effectively continuing a process, begun in Iraq, of retreat
from the region and has accepted to share its influence with Russian.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the same time, the <i>New York Times</i> revealed that <b>direct
negotiations between Washington and Iran are slated to restart even as
the United States continues its attack on Iranian monetary values. It
is becoming clear that, after 33 years of containment, Washington is
acknowledging that Teheran is an established regional power,</b> <b>all the
while continuing to sabotage its economy.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This new situation comes at the expense of Saudi Arabia, France,
Israel, Qatar and Turkey all of whom had placed their bets on regime
change in Damascus. This diverse coalition is now suffering divisions
between those demanding a consolation prize and those trying to sabotage
outright the process underway.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ankara has already changed its tune. <b>Recep Tayyip Erdogan,</b> previously
ready for the worst, <b>is now actively seeking reconciliation with
Teheran and Moscow.</b> Several days after insulting the Iranians and
harrassing the Russian diplomats in his country, he is now all smiles.<b>
He took advantage of the Organization of Economic Cooperation in Baku to
approach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</b>. <b>He proposed a complex framework
for discussing the Syrian crisis which would allow Turkey and Saudi
Arabia not to be left by the wayside. Careful not to humilate the losers
in the conflict, the Iranian president indicated he was open to such an
initiative.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>As for Qatar, it is already seeking new horizons for its ambitions.
Emir Hamad took off on a trip to Gaza, posing as the self-appointed
protector of Hamas. He advocates the overthrow of the King of Jordan,
the transformation of the Hashemite monarchy into a Palestinian republic
and the installation in power of his proteges from the Muslim
Brotherhood.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Only Israel and France remain in the opposition camp. The new scheme
would offer a guarantee of protection to the state of Israel but it
would also alter its special status on the international scene and end
its expansionist dreams. Tel-Aviv would be relegated to being a
secondary power</b>. France, also, would lose influence in the region,
particularly in Lebanon. Accordingly, <b>the intelligence services of both
states have concocted an operation to collapse the U.S.-Russia-Iran
agreement </b>which, even if it fails, would allow them to erase the traces
of their involvement in the Syrian crisis.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>France started by circulating the rumor that President Bashar
al-Assad sponsored a Hezbollah plan to assassinate five Lebanese
leaders: the head of the security forces, the head commander of the
Ministry of the Interior, the Grand Mufti, the Maronite Patriarch and
former prime minister, Fouad Siniora. Then, Paris took out Michel
Samaha, who had served as liaison to the Syrian armed forces but who,
having been disgraced in Damascus, was no longer of use. This brilliant
and adept politician fell into the trap set for him by General Wassam
el-Hassan, head of the Free Syrian Army and himself a liaison with the
Salafists. Next, Paris eliminated General Wassam el-Hassan himself, who
had not only become useless in the eventual advent of peace in Syria but
also dangerous because of what he knew. </b>The French rumor became reality
: the number one name on the list of targets is dead and a pro-Syrian
figure was arrested as he was preparing an attack on another name on the
list.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>At the core of these machinations is General Puga. The former
Commander of Special Operations and Director of French Military
Intelligence was the head of the personal general staff of President
Nicolas Sarkozy and has been retained in that post by Francois Hollande.
</b> Linked by his unconditional support for the Jewish colonial occupation
of Palestine [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176399.html#nb1" id="nh1" rel="footnote" title=""Gaza: France oversees the extension of the Separation Wall," Voltaire (...)">1</a>]
and having close connections to American neoconservatives<b>, he carried
forward French colonial policies in the Ivory Coast, Libya and Syria.
Bypassing democratic institutions, he determined on his own the
direction of French policy in the Middle East, despite his having no
official appointment.</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 7px; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a class="titre_serif_3" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur29.html?lang=en"><span lang="fr">Thierry Meyssan</span></a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176399.html#nh1" id="nb1" rev="footnote" title="Footnotes 1">1</a>] "<a class="spip_out" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article163398.html">Gaza: France oversees the extension of the Separation Wall</a>," <i>Voltaire Network</i>, 26 December 2009. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Translation
<br /><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125486.html?lang=en">Michele Stoddard </a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Source
<br /><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125492.html?lang=en">Information Clearing House (USA)</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176425.html">http://www.voltairenet.org/article176425.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Moral Collapse and Mental Disorder</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pierre Khalaf, Ghaleb Kandil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beirut, 30 October 2012</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>During the last few days, the Lebanese watched live on television
some of the chapters of the resounding collapse of the March 14 forces
in the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon, one which reached its
dramatic peak with the scandalous attempt to storm the Serail. This
constituted a failed and outrageous act, both politically and morally.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Firstly, the moral and cultural collapse of the March 14 forces has
been featured in their actions since the assassination of General Wissam
al-Hassan. Indeed, the political front that delivered lectures and
launched campaigns in rejection of the weapons, all weapons, under the
headline that the state and the national institutions were the only
guarantors of all aspects of life, and the front which claimed to be
peaceful since the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in
2005 and tried to appear oppressed and aggressed, unleashed a campaign
of political and security violence which led the country to the brink of
civil war. It did so by exploiting the assassination, without raising
one slogan related to the investigations and the trials. It thus sought
the use of the crime to achieve an immoral goal, i.e. return to power,
without having a political program or making any pledges to change the
situation. The only aim was to replace Prime Minister Najib Mikati with
leader of the Future Movement Saad al-Hariri.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Secondly, what happened on the ground was not a street anarchy as
some like to claim to lift any responsibility which might fall on the
March 14 command for having recruits thugs and riff-raff in an organized
sabotage campaign, during which the citizens were assaulted and public
life was paralyzed due to the mobile riots and violence. Indeed, <b>the
Lebanese regions witnessed the erection of checkpoints controlled by
armed elements that beat the passersby, attacked the cars and practiced
provocative sectarian violence against hundreds of Lebanese in the Bekaa
and the coastal road linking Beirut to the South</b>. At this level,
information circulated about the fact that many young men were thrown
off the Awwali Bridge, while dozens were stabbed with knives in the
Naame and Katermaya regions. In the meantime, shootings occurred in an
organized way in Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon and Akkar, in addition to the
emergence of a form of political terrorism which led to the killing of a
Sunni sheikhs and cadres opposing the Future Movement on the political
level. Moreover, <b>armed groups from the Future Movement militias, the
so-called Free Army and Takfiri organizations were deployed, thus
causing the streets to be occupied by Lebanese or Syrian armed gangs.
Hence, the street mayhem did not feature a spontaneous popular action,
and this marked the epitome of moral collapse.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thirdly, the goal which is linked to the return to power through the
spread of methodic chaos and anarchy stripped the March 14 forces of any
moral quality and exposed the core of their action. At this level, the
facts registered a popular abstinence from cooperating with these
forces’ calls, despite their exploitation of the shed blood once again
and their use of all possible means, including the spread of rumors, the
mobilization of a massive media machine, the rallying of thousands of
Syrian refugees and the distribution of money. <b>All these measures failed
to revive the old scenes of the consecutive events organized in the
years which followed the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik
al-Hariri. The storming of the Serail on the other hand constituted the
peak of the mental and political disorder prevailing over the March 14
command, which raised the slogan of toppling the government </b>while <b>
thinking it could lead to Mikati’s exit upon the orders and calls of
Al-Sanioura against the backdrop of the assassination.</b> It was as though
the Lebanese had forgotten about the fact that the man remained
unaffected by and did not even consider resignation in light of the
series of assassinations which occurred during his term. This command
thought that its faltering political muscles had the ability to amend
the American and Israeli positions which revolved around the necessity
of sparing stability in Lebanon, as it was clearly seen in the Baabda
declaration which constituted a strong blow to Al-Hariri’s and Geagea’s
illusions.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Fourthly, the storming of the Serail in itself confirmed the moral
collapse. This was clearly detected by the citizens when comparing what
was done by the March 14 forces during the days of Al-Sanioura’s
government, i.e. when they fiercely defended the premiership and its
headquarters, and was recalled by Mufti Sheikh Rashid Qabbani. At this
level, the emergence of the gangs of the so-called Free Army constituted
a dramatic and expressive turning point, especially after they placed
their flag above the Lebanese flag on the Serail door, in parallel to
the presence of Israeli agents among the crowds which could not be
widened despite the calls of Deputy Nouhad al-Mashnouk and the shouting
of Deputy Muin al-Merhebi, with the sole purpose of enhancing the attack
on the Serail guards.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The desperate team following the collapse of the wager on Syria’s
fall and the attempts to return to power at whichever price, acted
without any cover from its American and European sponsors, knowing that
the latter have no intention of becoming involved in a battle or a coup
in Lebanon out of fear from the consequences of this the lethal
adventure inside their last area of influence. This reveals the mental
and nervous disorder prevailing over the March 14 command, one which led
it to adopt hysterical and arbitrary decisions as it is proceeding with
its game in the North and seeking the besieging of the Lebanese army
with depletion.<b> The regional and international balances and calculations
have changed, and political stupidity mixed with spite can only lead
this team to commit foolish acts. That is the reality behind the events
witnessed during the last few days in a country whose people yearn for
civil peace and reject strife, at a time when the March 14 forces are
recruiting mercenaries to attack the Lebanese army and state which they
are trying to reach, as it was stated by the prime minister.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>News Analysis.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By Nasser Kandil</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>...</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Syria.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During his meeting with United Nations Envoy to Syria <b>Lakhdar Brahimi
and the delegation accompanying him, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
discussed the developments affecting the situation in Syria, the efforts
deployed By Brahimi and the outcome of his recent tour in a number of
states in the region. President Al-Assad stressed Syria’s support of the
efforts of the UN envoy, assuring it was open to any honest attempts to
seek a political solution to the crisis, based on the respect of Syrian
sovereignty and the rejection of foreign intervention. He added that
any initiative or political process should be based on ending terrorism,
with all that this requires in terms of commitments by the states
implicated in supporting and arming the terrorists in Syria to stop
doing so.</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the other hand, <b>President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree granting
a general pardon for all the crimes committed before 23/10/2012. In
statements to the national news agency SANA, Justice Minister Dr. Najm
Hamad al-Ahmad said that the pardon issued by President Al-Assad was the
most comprehensive in the history of the Syrian Arab Republic, and fell
in the context of social tolerance, national unity and the requirements
of coexistence on the occasion of the Holy Eid al-Adha</b>. He considered
that this constituted a step in a series of steps announced by President
Al-Assad on more than one occasion.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Source
<br /><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125232.html?lang=en">New Orient News (Lebanon)</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Les mauvais perdants de la crise syrienne</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thierry Meyssan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beyrouth, 28 octobre 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>En 2010, la France a fait le choix de relancer sa politique coloniale. Cela l’a conduit à changer le régime en Côte d’Ivoire et en Libye, puis à essayer de la faire en Syrie. Mais face à l’échec de cette troisième opération, Paris se trouve emporté par les événements qu’il a provoqués. Après avoir armé et encadré des groupes terroristes en Syrie, la DGSE a frappé au cœur de la capitale libanaise. </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Lors d’une table ronde à Ankara, l’amiral James Winnefeld, chef
d’état-major adjoint des USA, a confirmé que Washington révélerait ses
intentions à l’égard de la Syrie, dès l’élection présidentielle du 6
novembre terminée. Il a clairement fait comprendre à ses interlocuteurs
turcs qu’un plan de paix avait déjà été négocié avec Moscou, que Bachar
el-Assad resterait en place et que le Conseil de sécurité
n’autoriserait pas la création de zones tampons.</b> De son côté, le
secrétaire général adjoint de l’ONU chargé des opérations de maintien de
la paix, Hervé Ladsous, a confirmé qu’il était en train d’étudier les<b>
possibilités de déploiement de casques bleus en Syrie.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Tous les acteurs de la région se préparent donc à un cessez-le-feu
imposé par une force onusienne principalement composée de troupes de
l’Organisation du Traité de sécurité collective (Arménie, Biélorussie,
Karazkhstan, Kirghizistan, Russie, Tadjikistan). <i>De facto</i>, cela
signifie que les Etats-Unis poursuivent leur retrait de la région,
débuté en Irak, et acceptent d’y partager leur influence avec la Russie.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Simultanément, le <i>New York Times</i> a révélé que des <b>pourparlers
directs vont reprendre entre Washington et Téhéran, alors même que les
États-Unis s’appliquent à couler la monnaie iranienne. En clair, après
33 ans de <i>containement</i>, Washington admet que Téhéran est une puissance régionale incontournable, tout en continuant à saboter son économie.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Cette nouvelle donne se fait au détriment de l’Arabie saoudite, de la
France, d’Israël, du Qatar et de la Turquie qui avaient tous misé sur
un changement de régime à Damas. Cette coalition hétéroclite se divise
désormais entre ceux qui réclament un lot de consolation et ceux qui
tentent de saboter le processus en cours.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D’ores et déjà, Ankara a changé son fusil d’épaule. <b>Recep Tayyip
Erdogan,</b> qui se disait prêt au pire, <b>tente de se réconcilier avec
Téhéran et Moscou</b>. Quelques jours après avoir insulté les Iraniens et
fait molester des diplomates russes, il est devenu tout sourire. Il a
profité du s<b>ommet de l’Organisation de Coopération Economique à Bakou
pour rencontrer le président Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</b> <b>Il lui a proposé de
mettre en place un dispositif complexe de discussion sur la crise
syrienne qui permette à la fois à la Turquie et à l’Arabie saoudite de
ne pas rester au bord du chemin. Soucieux de ne pas humilier les
perdants, le président iranien s’est montré ouvert à cette initiative.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Le Qatar, de son côté, est déjà en quête de nouveaux espaces pour ses
ambitions. L’émir Hamad s’est offert un voyage à Gaza et s’est posé en
protecteur du Hamas. Il verrait d’un bon œil le renversement du roi de
Jordanie, la transformation du royaume hachémite en une république
palestinienne et l’installation au pouvoir de ses protégés de la
Confrérie des Frères musulmans.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Restent Israël et la France qui ont constitué un front du refus. La
nouvelle donne serait une garantie de protection pour l’État d’Israël,
mais mettrait fin à son statut particulier sur la scène internationale
et ruinerait ses rêves expansionnistes. Tel-Aviv serait ravalé au rang
de puissance secondaire</b>. Quand à la France, elle y perdrait son
influence dans la région, y compris au Liban. C’est dans ce contexte que
<b> les services secrets des deux États ont conçu une opération pour faire
échouer l’accord USA-Russie-Iran. </b>Dans l’hypothèse où cette opération
échouerait, elle devrait quand même permettre d’effacer les preuves de
l’ingérence dans la crise syrienne.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La France a d’abord fait circuler une rumeur selon laquelle le
président Bachar el-Assad aurait commandité au Hezbollah l’assassinat de
cinq personnalités libanaises : le chef des Forces de sécurité
intérieure, le directeur des forces du ministère de l’Intérieur, le
grand mufti, le patriarche maronite et l’ancien Premier ministre Fouad
Siniora. Puis, Paris a sacrifié Michel Samaha —qui lui servait d’agent
de liaison avec les services syriens, mais venait de tomber en disgrâce à
Damas et était donc devenu inutile—. Le brillant et versatile
politicien est tombé dans un piège tendu par le général Wissam el-Hassan
—chef des FSI et lui même agent de liaison avec les salafistes—. Puis,
Paris a sacrifié le général Wissam el-Hassan, qui non seulement était
devenu inutile en cas de paix en Syrie, mais dangereux tant il savait de
choses. </b>Ainsi la rumeur française s’est réalisée : le premier sur la
liste des cibles est mort, et une personnalité pro-syrienne a été
arrêtée en préparant un attentat contre une autre cible de la liste.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Au cœur de cette machination, on trouve le général Benoît Puga. Cet
ancien commandant des Opérations spéciales et directeur du Renseignement
militaire français a été chef de l’état-major particulier du président
Nicolas Sarkozy et a été maintenu à son poste par le président François
Hollande.</b> Affichant un soutien inconditionnel à la colonie juive de
Palestine [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176392.html#nb1" id="nh1" rel="footnote" title="« Gaza : la France supervise le prolongement du Mur de séparation », Réseau (...)">1</a>]
et des relations privilégiées avec les néo-conservateurs US, il a
relancé la politique coloniale de la France en Côte d’Ivoire, en Libye
et en Syrie.<b> Il était l’agent traitant à la fois de Michel Samaha et de
Wissam el-Hassan. Il est aujourd’hui l’homme fort à Paris. En violation
des institutions démocratiques, il gouverne seul la politique
proche-orientale de la France, bien que cette attribution ne corresponde
pas à ses fonctions officielles.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176392.html#nh1" id="nb1" rev="footnote" title="Notes 1">1</a>] « <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article163396.html">Gaza : la France supervise le prolongement du Mur de séparation</a> », <i>Réseau Voltaire</i>, 26 décembre 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176417.html">http://www.voltairenet.org/article176417.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Le 14-Mars multiplie les erreurs : rupture avec Walid Joumblatt </b></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">29 octobre 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Depuis l’assassinat du général Wissam al-Hassan, le
14-Mars multiplie les erreurs politiques. Il a d’abord fait de mauvais
calculs, en pensant pouvoir rééditer le scénario de 2005, lorsqu’il a
pris le pouvoir dans le sillage de l’assassinat de l’ancien Premier
ministre, Rafic Hariri. En optant pour l’agitation populaire et la
violence dans la rue, il a pensé que, le chef du gouvernement, le
centriste Najib Mikati, intimidé, démissionnerait de son poste.</b> Mais ce
dernier, fin limier de la politique, a su saisir les tendances
internationales et a compris que la stabilité du Liban est la priorité
des pays occidentaux. Déterminé, il a résisté à toutes les pressions et
fait face à la campagne de terreur. Et <b>c’est avec la bénédiction de la
« <i>communauté internationale</i> » que l’Armée libanaise a repris le contrôle du terrain</b>, occupé un temps par les milices du Courant du futur. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• <b>Le Hezbollah a qualifié de « <i>calomnies</i> » les accusations du chef des Forces libanaises, Samir Geagea, dans l’affaire de l’assassinat du général Wissam al-Hassan</b>. « <i>Le
chef des Forces libanaises, qui est condamné dans une série de grands
crimes qu’il avait perpétrés contre des individus et des groupes
libanais, et notamment contre l’ancien Premier ministre Rachid Karamé,
nous a gratifiés d’une rengaine d’accusations infondées à propos d’un
rôle d’exécutant qu’aurait tenu le Hezbollah dans l’assassinat du
général martyr Wissam el-Hassan</i> », indique le communiqué. « <i>Nous
rejetons entièrement ces accusations et nous y voyons une tentative
flagrante de jeter de l’huile sur le feu sectaire et d’aggraver la
tension dans le pays</i> ». « <i>Cela, aucun sage ne saurait l’accepter à
l’exception de ceux qui ont bien voulu servir gratuitement l’ennemi
israélien et ses complots criminels</i> », conclut le communiqué.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">•<b> Les enquêteurs libanais dans l’assassinat du général Wissam
al-Hassan ont reçu le soutien, jeudi, d’une équipe de la police fédérale
US.</b> Les agents du FBI sont déjà sur le lieu de l’attentat, à
d’Achrafié, à la recherche d’éléments et d’indices. La venue
d’enquêteurs du FBI avait été convenue lors d’un entretien téléphonique,
lundi, entre Najib Mikati et Hillary Clinton<b>. Le Hezbollah avait
exprimé son mécontentement de la venue des policiers états-uniens. Le
secrétaire général adjoint du parti, cheikh Naïm Kassem, avait réclamé
une enquête à 100 % libanaise.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>• Selon le quotidien libanais <i>Ad Diyar</i>, une entreprise
française spécialiste de la protection des personnalités et de la
sécurité des établissements a proposé au Liban d’envoyer 300
responsables de sécurité et agents anti-terroristes contre une somme de
120 millions de dollars par an. L’entreprise indique qu’elle est en
mesure de déjouer 95 % des éventuels incidents à condition qu’elle
dispose d’une grande liberté d’action. Problème : pourra-t-elle se
rendre dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth ?</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
Revue de presse</span></h3>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Al Akhbar</b> (24 octobre 2012)
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ibrahim El-Amine
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">À la suite de l’assassinat du général Wissam el-Hassan, les forces
du 14-Mars n’ont pas tardé à pointer du doigt la Syrie. L’unique
objectif de cette accusation était de mobiliser son public, sachant
qu’elle ne sort pas du contexte politique de l’action de ce camp qui
mise sur la chute du régime syrien.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cependant, les déclarations des responsables sécuritaires et des
ténors du 14-Mars correspondent-elles aux éléments ressortant de
l’enquête relative à l’attentat ?<b> L’enquête s’articule, pour le moment,
sur trois éléments principaux. Le premier est lié aux données tangibles
concernant la scène de l’attentat. Il consiste à identifier les
personnes observées par une caméra de surveillance installée dans les
lieux de l’attentat. Les images montrent que quelques heures avant
l’explosion, une voiture, garée dans la ruelle où l’attentat a eu lieu, a
cédé sa place à la voiture Toyota de type RAV4, qui a était piégée.
L’enquête est en cours pour savoir si la première voiture en question y
était stationnée dans l’objectif de réserver une place au véhicule
piégé. Le deuxième élément de l’enquête relève d’un procédé déductif qui
consiste à analyser les données téléphonique et décrypter les appels
qui ont eu lieu dans la région avant et après l’explosion dans une
tentative d’identifier les auteurs potentiels de l’attentat. Le
troisième élément consiste à savoir par quels moyens le général Wissam
el-Hassan a été surveillé. À cet effet, les appels effectués par
el-Hassan avant et après avoir quitté Berlin où il était accompagné du
Directeur général des FSI, Ashraf Rifi, et d’une délégation sécuritaire,
ont été examinés. Et la liste des personnes que le responsable
sécuritaire a contactées durant cette période a été mise en place. Les
autorités judiciaires compétentes ont rapporté qu’el-Hassan avait
contacté une journaliste, et qu’ils s’étaient entendus pour se
rencontrer dans son bureau secret d’Achrafié vendredi matin, soit le
jour de l’attentat. La justice demandera, par conséquent, aux enquêteurs
de convoquer la journaliste, qui était l’un des informateurs
d’el-Hassan, afin de recueillir sa déposition</b>. Cette mesure permettrait à
la justice de répondre aux questions suivantes : Y avait-il un moyen de
communication entre la journaliste et el-Hassan autre que le téléphone
portable ? Le contact entre eux a-t-il eu lieu avant ou après l’arrivée
d’el-Hassan au Liban ? La journaliste a-t-elle informé une partie
tierce, en personne, par téléphone, ou par un autre moyen de
télécommunication électronique de sa rencontre prévue avec el-Hassan ?
Aurait-elle évoqué la présence du bureau secret d’el-Hassan ? La
journaliste a-t-elle passé des appels téléphoniques après avoir quitté
le bureau d’el-Hassan à Achrafié ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Ad Diyar</b> (Quotidien libanais proche de la majorité-25 octobre 2012)
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Une source officielle syrienne haut placée affirme que c’est la
France qui aurait assassiné le général Wissam el-Hassan en raison de
certaines informations confidentielles qui étaient en sa possession.
Quant à la Syrie, qui a déjà suffisamment de problèmes, elle ne fera
rien qui puisse lui en causer d’autres. Wissam el-Hassan, poursuivent
ces sources, aurait commencé, grâce à Michel Samaha, à faire la lumière
sur les relations secrètes entre la Syrie et la France : l’ancien
ministre l’aurait en effet mis au courant d’informations dangereuses
portant sur la relation entre ces deux pays ainsi que sur son propre
rôle secret d’intermédiaire. Samaha aurait donc dévoilé les dessous de
la relation syro-française, au niveau des services de renseignements en
particulier, ce qui a poussé la France à vouloir liquider Wissam
al-Hassan. Il n’est d’ailleurs pas exclu que Michel Samaha soit éliminé à
son tour pour enterrer les grands secrets relatifs aux renseignements
français et syriens. La France ne souhaiterait en tout cas pas que les
États-uniens découvrent ses relations secrètes et son rôle en Syrie et
dans la région, d’autant plus que Wissam el-Hassan avait commencé à
tisser des liens avec les États-Unis.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>L’Orient-Le Jour</b> (Quotidien francophone proche du 14-Mars)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a class="titre_serif_3" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125354.html?lang=fr">Pierre Khalaf</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Source
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125232.html?lang=fr">New Orient News (Liban)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-18152895502316769292012-10-25T07:23:00.003+01:002012-10-25T07:23:56.785+01:00imf revolutionary paper: 100% reserve backing.<br />
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9623863/IMFs-epic-plan-to-conjure-away-debt-and-dethrone-bankers.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9623863/IMFs-epic-plan-to-conjure-away-debt-and-dethrone-bankers.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers </b></span><br />
<br />
<b>So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, and by implication do the same for Britain, Germany, Italy, or Japan. </b><br />
<br />
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard<br />
21 Oct 2012<br />
<br />
<div class="firstPar" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>One could slash private debt by 100pc of GDP, boost growth, stabilize prices,
and dethrone bankers all at the same time. It could be done cleanly and
painlessly, by legislative command, far more quickly than anybody imagined.
</b></div>
<div class="secondPar" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>
The conjuring trick is to replace our system of private bank-created money --
roughly 97pc of the money supply -- with state-created money. We return to
the historical norm, before Charles II placed control of the money supply in
private hands with the English Free Coinage Act of 1666. </b>
</div>
<div class="thirdPar" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Specifically, it means an assault on "fractional reserve banking".
If lenders are forced to put up 100pc reserve backing for deposits, they
lose the exorbitant privilege of creating money out of thin air.
</b></div>
<div class="fourthPar" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>
The nation regains sovereign control over the money supply. There are no more
banks runs, and fewer boom-bust credit cycles. </b>Accounting legerdemain will
do the rest. That at least is the argument.
</div>
<div class="fifthPar">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Some readers may already have seen t<b>he IMF study, by Jaromir Benes and Michael
Kumhof, which came out in August and has begun to acquire a cult following
around the world. </b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="body">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Entitled "<a href="http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12202.pdf"><strong>The
Chicago Plan Revisited</strong></a>", it revives the scheme first put
forward by professors Henry Simons and Irving Fisher in 1936 during the
ferment of creative thinking in the late Depression. </b>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Irving Fisher thought credit cycles led to an unhealthy concentration of
wealth. He saw it with his own eyes in the early 1930s as creditors
foreclosed on destitute farmers, seizing their land or buying it for a
pittance at the bottom of the cycle.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>
The farmers found a way of defending themselves in the end. They muscled
together at "one dollar auctions", buying each other's property
back for almost nothing. Any carpet-bagger who tried to bid higher was
beaten to a pulp.</b>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Benes and Kumhof argue that credit-cycle trauma</b> - caused by private money
creation - dates deep into history and<b> lies at the root of debt jubilees in
the ancient religions of Mesopotian and the Middle East.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Harvest cycles led to systemic defaults thousands of years ago, with
forfeiture of collateral, and concentration of wealth in the hands of
lenders. These episodes were not just caused by weather, as long thought.
They were amplified by the effects of credit.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>The Athenian leader Solon implemented the first known Chicago Plan/New Deal in
599 BC to relieve farmers in hock to oligarchs enjoying private coinage. He
cancelled debts, restituted lands seized by creditors, set floor-prices for
commodities (much like Franklin Roosevelt), and consciously flooded the
money supply with state-issued "debt-free" coinage.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>The Romans sent a delegation to study Solon's reforms 150 years later and
copied the ideas, setting up their own fiat money system under Lex Aternia
in 454 BC.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>It is a myth - innocently propagated by the great Adam Smith - that money
developed as a commodity-based or gold-linked means of exchange</b>. Gold was
always highly valued, but that is another story. Metal-lovers often conflate
the two issues.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Anthropological studies show that <b>social fiat currencies began with the dawn
of time. The Spartans banned gold coins, replacing them with iron disks of
little intrinsic value. The early Romans used bronze tablets. Their worth
was entirely determined by law - a doctrine made explicit by Aristotle in
his Ethics - like the dollar, the euro, or sterling today.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Some argue that <b>Rome began to lose its solidarity spirit when it allowed an
oligarchy to develop a private silver-based coinage during the Punic Wars.
Money slipped control of the Senate. You could call it Rome's shadow banking
system.</b> Evidence suggests that it became a machine for elite wealth
accumulation.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Unchallenged sovereign or Papal control over currencies persisted through the
Middle Ages until England broke the mould in 1666. Benes and Kumhof say this
was the start of the boom-bust era. </b>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
One might equally say that <b>this opened the way to England's agricultural
revolution in the early 18th Century, the industrial revolution soon after,
and the greatest economic and technological leap ever seen</b>. But let us not
quibble.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>The original authors of the Chicago Plan were responding to the Great
Depression.</b> <b>They believed it was possible to prevent the social havoc caused
by wild swings from boom to bust</b>, and to do so without crimping economic
dynamism.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The benign side-effect of their proposals would be a switch from national debt
to national surplus, as if by magic. "Because under <b>the Chicago Plan
banks have to borrow reserves from the treasury to fully back liabilities,
the government acquires a very large asset vis-à-vis banks. Our analysis
finds that the government is left with a much lower, in fact negative, net
debt burden."
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The IMF paper says total liabilities of the US financial system - including
shadow banking - are about 200pc of GDP. <b>The new reserve rule would create a
windfall</b> [<span class="definition"><i>a large amount of money that is won or received unexpectedly</i>]</span>. <b>This would be used for a "potentially a very large, buy-back
of private debt", perhaps 100pc of GDP.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
While Washington would issue much more fiat money, this would not be
redeemable. It would be an equity of the commonwealth, not debt.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>The key of the Chicago Plan was to separate the "monetary and credit
functions" of the banking system. "The quantity of money and the
quantity of credit would become completely independent of each other."
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>
Private lenders would no longer be able to create new deposits "ex nihilo".
New bank credit would have to be financed by retained earnings.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>"The control of credit growth would become much more straightforward
because banks would no longer be able, as they are today, to generate their
own funding, deposits, in the act of lending, an extraordinary privilege
that is not enjoyed by any other type of business," says the IMF paper.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Rather, <b>banks would become</b> what many erroneously believe them to be
today, <b>pure intermediaries that depend on obtaining outside funding before
being able to lend."
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/">US</a>
Federal Reserve would take real control over the money supply for the
first time, making it easier to manage inflation. It was precisely for this
reason that Milton Friedman called for 100pc reserve backing in 1967. </strong>Even
the great free marketeer implicitly favoured a clamp-down on private money.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>The switch would engender a 10pc boost to long-arm economic output.</b> "None
of these benefits come at the expense of diminishing the core useful
functions of a private financial system."
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Simons and Fisher were flying blind in the 1930s. They lacked the modern
instruments needed to crunch the numbers, so the IMF team has now done it
for them -- using the `DSGE' stochastic model now de rigueur in high
economics, loved and hated in equal measure.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The finding is startling. Simons and Fisher understated their claims. <b>It is
perhaps possible to confront the banking plutocracy head without endangering
the economy.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Benes and Kumhof make large claims. They leave me baffled, to be honest.</b>
Readers who want the technical details can make their own judgement by
studying the text<strong> <a href="http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12202.pdf">here</a>.
</strong>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>The IMF duo have supporters. Professor Richard Werner from Southampton
University - who coined the term quantitative easing (QE) in the 1990s --
testified to Britain's Vickers Commission that a switch to state-money would
have major welfare gains. He was backed by the campaign group Positive Money
and the New Economics Foundation.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The theory also <b>has strong critics. Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research
says banks are in a sense already being forced to increase reserves by EU
rules, Basel III rules, and gold-plated variants in the UK. The effect has
been to choke lending to the private sector.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
He argues that is the chief reason why the world economy remains stuck in
near-slump, and why central banks are having to cushion the shock with QE.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>"If you enacted this plan, it would devastate bank profits and cause a
massive deflationary disaster. There would have to do `QE squared' to offset
it," he said.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The <b>result would be a huge shift in bank balance sheets from private lending
to government securities. This happened during World War Two, but that was
the anomalous cost of defeating Fascism.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>To do this on a permanent basis in peace-time would be to change in the nature
of western capitalism. </b>"People wouldn't be able to get money from
banks. There would be huge damage to the efficiency of the economy," he
said.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Arguably, it would smother freedom and enthrone a Leviathan state. It might be
even more irksome in the long run than rule by bankers.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>
Personally, I am a long way from reaching an conclusion in this extraordinary
debate. Let it run, and let us all fight until we flush out the arguments.
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>
One thing is sure. The City of London will have great trouble earning its keep
if any variant of the Chicago Plan ever gains wide support. </b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-89439236694248368352012-10-22T11:10:00.000+01:002012-10-22T18:38:23.318+01:00wissam al hassan, suspect du meurtre de hariri.<br />
<a href="http://www.renenaba.com/wissam-al-hassan-la-dague-du-dispositif-securitaire-saoudien-au-proche-orient/">http://www.renenaba.com/wissam-al-hassan-la-dague-du-dispositif-securitaire-saoudien-au-proche-orient/</a><br />
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<a href="http://libnanews.com/2012/10/20/wissam-al-hassan-la-dague-du-dispositif-securitaire-saoudien-au-proche-orient/">http://libnanews.com/2012/10/20/wissam-al-hassan-la-dague-du-dispositif-securitaire-saoudien-au-proche-orient/</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wissam Al Hassan, la dague du dispositif sécuritaire saoudien au Proche orient.</span></b><br />
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20 octobre 2012<br />
<a href="http://libnanews.com/author/renenaba/">René Naba </a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
Paris- <b>Réplique sismique de la décapitation de la hiérarchie
militaire syrienne, le 18 juillet dernier à Damas (1), l’assassinat du
Général Wissam Al-Hassam, l’homme lige du clan Hariri sur le plan
sécuritaire au Liban, a retenti comme un revers stratégique majeur du
camp atlantiste, à forte charge symbolique, à forte portée
psychologique.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Se superposant à la destruction des sanctuaires de Tombouctou (Nord
Mali) par les affidés du Qatar, Ansar Eddine, et à l’assassinat de
l’ambassadeur des Etats-Unis en Libye, Christopher Evens, à la date
hautement symbolique du 11 septembre à Benghazi par les obligés néo
islamistes de l’Amérique,<b> le dégagement sanglant de Wissam al Hassan, va
sans nul doute opérer un profond bouleversement du paysage politique
tant au Liban, qu’au-delà, sur l’ensemble du Moyen orient.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Survenant <b>trois mois jour pour jour après l’attentat de Damas, la
déflagration de Beyrouth, le 19 octobre, en plein fief chrétien de la
capitale libanaise, constitue une parfaite illustration des dérives
incontrôlées du conflit syrien et de ses retombées sur le Liban, dont
les conséquences pourraient s’avérer gravement dommageables tant pour le
clan Hariri au Liban, que pour son parrain saoudien, que pour leur
parrain commun, les Etats-Unis, par ricochet pour la Syrie elle-même et
le clan Assad et ses alliés, alors que la zone frontalière syro
libanaise paraît complétement gangrénée par des trafics en tous genres,
d’infiltrations de djihadistes de tous poils et d’apprentis sorciers
sulfureux surgis de nulle part à la recherche d’odeurs de poudre,
prélude à la constitution d’un «Sunnitoland».</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>A cinq mois de l’ouverture du procès Hariri à la Haye, la disparition
de ce témoin faisandé, embourbé dans la gestion d’un nouveau mystérieux
faux témoin de l’affaire Michel Samaha, Milad Kfouri, pour cruel que
soit ce constat, arrangerait bon nombre de protagonistes de cette
épreuve de force interminable entre le camp atlantiste et ses
contestataires régionaux en vue de la maîtrise du jeu régional.</b><br />
Quelle soit ou non impliquée dans cet attentat, quelle que soit son
degré d’implication, <b>la Syrie va immanquablement être pointée du doigt
et criminalisée selon un processus identique à celui qui a prévalu lors
de l’attentat contre l’ancien premier ministre Rafic Hariri, le 15
Février 2005.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Au-delà des accusations fondées ou pas, force est toutefois
d’admettre que<b> le fait que l’attentat se soit produit en plein fief
chrétien de la capitale libanaise, à proximité d’une permanence du parti
Phalangiste, une des principales formations chrétiennes libanaises,
témoigne, sept ans après le retrait syrien du Liban, sinon de la
dextérité des services syriens, si les charges anti syriennes étaient
fondées, à tout le moins de la négligence coupable de la victime et de
ses services qui n’auront su, en dépit des considérables moyens mis à
leur disposition, déjouer les menées hostiles.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>L’homme bénéficiait d’une sorte de passe-droit et ses services d’un
quasi de statut d’extra-territorialité du fait de ses protections pétro
monarchiques, dont il a usé et abusé pour impulser, malgré ses déboires,
sa promotion aux plus hauts échelons de la hiérarchie militaire et doté
ses services d’un important budget et d’équipements sophistiqués
fournis abondamment par les pays occidentaux.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>L’élimination du chef d’un service de renseignements à la dévotion de
la famille Hariri, ancien garde de corps rescapé lui-même de l’attentat
contre ancien premier ministre Rafic Hariri, au rôle primordial dans la
mise en circulation de «faux témoins» du procès Hariri et de l’enquête à
charge du Tribunal Spécial sur le Liban, paraît devoir fragiliser
considérablement le leadership politique du Clan Hariri au Liban,
rendant même problématique le retour dans l’immédiat à Beyrouth du chef
du clan Hariri </b>son chef, l’ancien premier ministre Saad Hariri, en exil
depuis le début du «printemps arabe», il y a deux ans.<br />
Personnage clé des opérations de déstabilisation anti-syriennes, <b>
interlocuteur privilégié des services français et américains, artisan de
l’arrestation de l’ancien ministre libanais pro syrien Michel Samaha,
maître d’œuvre du rapprochement franco syrien sous la présidence de
Nicolas Sarkozy, Wissam Al Hassan était surtout et avant tout la dague
sécuritaire du dispositif régional saoudien.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Son assassinat revêt dans cette perspective <b>un magistral camouflet au
maître d’œuvre de la contre-révolution arabe, le Prince Bandar Ben
Sultan, le chef des services de renseignements saoudiens en ce qu’elle
le prive d‘un de ses plus fidèles lieutenants, alors que le Royaume se
trouve en phase de turbulence</b> avec les révoltes populaires de la région
d’Al Assir, <b>fragilisé par l’absence des principaux dirigeants du pays,
Le Roi Abdallah, en hospitalisation prolongée hors du pays depuis trois
mois, de même que le ministre des Affaires étrangères, Saoud Al Faysal.</b><br />
Dans la tradition des chefs du renseignement du Moyen-Orient, <b>le général
Hassan est un personnage énigmatique, redouté dans son propre pays,
comme l’était son modèle maronite Johnny Abdo. Et si le masque
énigmatique masquait en fait une réputation non justifiée?</b></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
Johnny Abdo, le mentor maronite</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Les légendes ont la vie dure, quand bien même l’état de service ne le justifie pas.<br />
<b>Bachir Gemayel, président du Liban en 1982, et Rafic Hariri, chef du
gouvernement en 1992, auront eu le même mentor: Johnny Abdo, ancien chef
du service des renseignements de l’armée libanaise, dont son parrainage
leur sera fatal en même temps qu’il le discréditait. Mais cet homme
énigmatique, au rôle occulte, interface des services occidentaux pendant
trente ans, continue de bénéficier d’un halo de mystère.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Conseiller militaire du chef phalangiste durant la guerre civile</b> <b>en
infraction à ses fonctions officielles au sein de l’armée régulière
libanaise</b>, son <b>agent de liaison auprès des services occidentaux et de
leurs alliés</b> régionaux, cheville ouvrière de la campagne visant à son
élection à la tête de l’état libanais en remplacement du président Elias
Sarkis, dans la foulée de l’invasion israélienne du Liban, en 1982,
puis de la campagne visant après son assassinat à propulser son frère
aîné Amine à sa succession,<b> Johnny Abdo est un homme de l’ombre par
excellence.<br />
Le flou entretenu sur ses origines, il serait de souche palestinienne,
la rapidité avec laquelle il aurait été naturalisé, sa facile
incorporation dans l’armée qui plus est dans un service aussi sensible
que le renseignement, la consonance anglo-saxonne de son prénom dans un
environnement arabe, la singularité pour ce colonel de décliner son
identité selon son statut civil et non par son grade dans l’armée,
contrairement à l’usage observé par tous les officiers libanais passés à
la notoriété, ont accentué le mystère qui l’entoure.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Ancien bras droit du Colonel Gaby Lahoud, véritable patron du
renseignement moderne libanais et artisan de son intrusion dans la vie
politique locale après la première guerre civile libanaise, en 1958,
homme de sang-froid sans état d’âme apparent, d’origine étrangère
cultivant le secret de surcroît, Johnny Abdo focalise une large part de
la vive suspicion que les Libanais nourrissent à l’égard d’une
institution qui pendant près de deux décennies est apparue comme le
gouvernement occulte du Liban</b> aux procédés jugés sans rapport avec
l’éthique démocratique et républicaine.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
S’<b>il peut se targuer d’avoir propulsé ses deux poulains au pouvoir,
son bilan est sujet à caution. Bachir Gemayel, éphémère président du
Liban, a été tué dans un attentat quelques jours avant sa prise
fonction, alors que Rafic Hariri, s’il a battu un record de longévité
gouvernementale dans l’histoire du Liban avec un double mandat de dix
ans, a implosé en pleine trajectoire après avoir mis en coupe réglée
l’économie du pays et grevé le trésor d’une dette publique de 42
milliards de dollars.</b><br />
Mais le reproche<b> le plus grave</b> que cet homme de l’ombre encourt<b> est
d’avoir fourvoyé le camp chrétien dans une alliance exclusive avec les
Israéliens au mépris du voisinage arabe du Liban,</b> accentuant son
isolement; d’<b>avoir instrumentalisé son propre camp pour satisfaire des
ambitions présidentielles, et, au niveau de l’armée, d’avoir rompu la
traditionnelle fraternité d’armes lors de l’élection présidentielle
libanaise de 1998.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>La ténébreuse affaire du faux témoin syrien Mohamad Zuheir Siddick,
témoin à charge contre la Syrie dans le procès en instance de
l’assassinat de Rafic Hariri, qui lui aurait été partiellement imputée,
aura été fatale à sa réputation</b>, le signe patent de l’échec d’un homme
qui aura sinistré son pays plus qu’aucun autre et voué au bûcher deux de
ses poulains pour la satisfaction de ses ambitions présidentielles
contre les intérêts à long terme de son pays.<br />
<b>Johnny Abdo fait l’objet d’une citation à comparaître devant le tribunal
correctionnel de Paris, sur requête du Général Jamil As Sayyed, ancien
directeur général de la sûreté libanaise, un des quatre officiers
arbitrairement détenus pendant trois sur la base des dépositions du faux
témoin en question. Un épisode qui a couvert de ridicule le Tribunal
spécial sur le Liban et les auteurs de la manipulation. L’échec est
patent. Mais la légende perdure.</b></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
Le disciple: Wissam Hassan, la version sunnite de l’homme de l’ombre</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Son zèle scolaire lui a sauvé la vie, mais gâché sa vie. Lors du plus
fort séisme politique de l’histoire moderne du Liban, le plus important
attentat meurtrier de l’histoire de ce pays, qui a emporté 23 personnes
et blessés plus d’une centaine blessés, dont l’assassinat de l’espoir
de l’Occident en terre arabe, Rafic Hariri, <span style="font-size: small;">l’homme en charge de sa
protection était tranquillement assis sur les bancs d’un amphithéâtre de
l’Université libanaise, entrain de noircir sa copie.<br />
Un hasard qui lui a certes sauvé la vie</span></b>, mais gâché sa vie,
l’empoisonnant même au-delà de toute attente, tant est <b>lourde la
suspicion qui pèse sur cet homme animé d’un pressant besoin de
respectabilité universitaire.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Son nom sera ainsi irrémédiablement associé au<b> grand ratage de sa
vie, l’assassinat de Rafic Hariri, dont il était chargé de sa protection
rapprochée, qu’il n’a ni prévu, ni anticipé, ni entravé, ni déjoué,
davantage préoccupé par sa promotion universitaire que par la sauvegarde
de son bienfaiteur.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>En pleine épreuve de force entre la Syrie et son patron, au paroxysme
d’un conflit régional, dont des personnalités libanaises, notamment
Marwane Hamadé, ministre des télécommunications (octobre 2004), en
étaient déjà les victimes</b>, au titre de dommage collatéral, signe
annonciateur de plus grands malheurs, sur fond d’un traumatisme
psychologique majeur provoqué par l’éviction du pouvoir des sunnites
d’Irak et la propulsion, pour la première fois depuis Saladin (Salah
Eddine Al Ayoubi), d’un Kurde à la tête de l’ancien siège de l’Empire,
Bagdad, ancienne capitale des abbassides, (Janvier 2005), à
l’arrière-plan d’un bain de sang quotidien et d’une fermentation
intégriste au Liban, <b>Wissam Al-Hassan, avait demandé d’anticiper la
soutenance de sa thèse, couronnement d’un enseignement en informatique à
l’Université libanaise sous la conduite du professeur Yahya Rabih.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Une thèse qui portait, non sur la stratégie de contre guérilla, ou,
les règles d’engagement des actions armées en milieu insurrectionnel
urbain, voire même le décryptage des réseaux de télécommunications,
alors noyautées par les services occidentaux et Israéliens, mais en
Sciences Humaines sur le “Management et relations humaines” sans qu’il
ait été possible de savoir si cet intitulé anodin couvait l’art de la
manipulation de l’opinion ou la gestion de faux témoin comme cela se
révélera par la suite.</div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
Un étrange alibi</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Responsable de la sécurité de Rafic Hariri au moment de son
assassinat, il était devenu le principal point de contact entre
l’enquête et les Forces de sécurité intérieure. Sauf que le chef des
gardes de corps, grassement payé, n’était pas dans le convoi le jour de
l’explosion. Et son alibi manque de conviction.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Selon les révélations de la télévision publique canadienne CBC, en
date du 22 novembre 2010, le Colonel Wissam Hassan dira aux enquêteurs
de l’ONU, le 9 juillet 2005, que la veille de l’assassinat, le 13
février, son professeur, Yahya Rabih, lui avait téléphoné pour
l’informer qu’il devait passer un examen le lendemain.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Vingt minutes plus tard, a-t-il dit aux enquêteurs, Hariri l’a appelé
pour lui demander de venir le voir. Le colonel Hassan s’est présenté à
la résidence de Hariri à 21 h 30 ce soir-là, et a obtenu la permission
de son patron d’aller passer son examen le lendemain. Il a passé toute
la matinée du lendemain à étudier pour cet examen, a-t-il expliqué aux
enquêteurs de l’ONU, et a débranché son téléphone à son arrivée à
l’université, soit à peu près au moment où Hariri est mort. “Si je
n’avais pas passé cet examen, a dit Hassan aux enquêteurs, j’aurai été
avec Hariri au moment de sa mort.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Mais le relevé des appels téléphoniques de Hassan donnait une toute
autre version des faits. En réalité, c’est en fait tait le colonel
Hassan qui avait pris l‘initiative d’appeler son professeur, et non
l’inverse.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Les stations cellulaires autour de la maison du colonel Hassan
montraient également que, le lendemain, il avait passé les heures
précédant l’assassinat de Hariri au téléphone, soit le temps qu’il avait
soi-disant passé à étudier. Il a fait 24 appels, soit en moyenne un
appel toutes les neuf minutes.</b><br />
Ce que les enquêteurs de l’ONU trouvaient également bizarre, c’était
que, normalement, les hauts responsables des services de sécurité du
Liban ne passent pas d’examens. “Son alibi est faible et incohérent, dit<b>
un rapport confidentiel de l’ONU, qui qualifie Hassan de “possible
suspect dans le meurtre de Hariri”.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Le rapport, dont CBC News a obtenu une copie, a été rédigé fin 2008
pour Garry Loeppky, un ancien haut gradé de la GRC qui avait repris le
poste d’enquêteur en chef de l’ONU cet été là. L’alibi de Hassan,
pouvait-on lire dans le document, «ne semble pas avoir fait l’objet
d’une vérification indépendante”. Ce n’était pas par manque de volonté
de la part des enquêteurs de l’ONU. Ceux-ci auraient voulu vérifier
l’alibi de Hassan. Mais M. Serge Brammertz, le deuxième commissaire de
l’ONU, avait catégoriquement rejeté l’idée. Il considérait Hassan comme
un contact trop important et que toute enquête de ce genre serait trop
dérangeante.</b></div>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
Une enquête sous tension</h4>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Le rapport confidentiel concède qu’une enquête sur Hassan pourrait
avoir des inconvénients: “Les relations de la commission avec les FSI
pourraient en souffrir et si, d’une manière ou d’une autre, il a été
impliqué dans le meurtre de Hariri, le réseau pourrait décider de
l’éliminer”.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Néanmoins, le rapport affirme que le colonel<b> Hassan “est un
interlocuteur clé pour la commission – il est particulièrement bien
placé pour influencer notre enquête. C’est pourquoi il importe de
résoudre certaines questions concernant sa loyauté et ses intentions. Il
est donc recommandé de mener une enquête discrète sur WAH ” Mais même
cela n’a pas été fait.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
La direction de<b> la commission de l’ONU a ignoré la recommandation.
Aujourd’hui encore, d’anciens enquêteurs de l’ONU ont des soupçons sur
Hassan qui, font-ils remarquer, a finalement été éliminé du cercle de
l’enquête. “C’était un personnage louche, a dit de lui un ancien haut
responsable de l’ONU. Je ne crois pas qu’il ait participé au meurtre,
mais il est impossible de dire ce qu’il savait”.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Bien qu’il leur ait été intimé l’ordre d’abandonner cette piste, <b>les
enquêteurs de l’ONU ont réussi à récupérer les registres des appels
téléphoniques de Hassan pour la fin de 2004 et pour 2005 au complet.
Durant cette période, il avait eu 279 discussions avec Hussein Khalil,
l’adjoint principal du chef du Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Khalil, de
son côté, avait parlé 602 fois avec Wafik Safa, connu dans le milieu du
renseignement comme étant l’homme fort du service de sécurité interne du
Hezbollah.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Mais personne n’a interrogé Hassan non plus au sujet de ces appels.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Toutefois, Hassan avait également ses défenseurs. Il est resté un
proche allié du fils de Hariri, Saad, l’ancien premier ministre du
Liban, qui lui a renouvelé sa confiance après ses révélations.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>L’homme pouvait rendre service et le prouvera dans sa gestion du faux
témoin Zuhayr Muhammad Siddiq remonte à septembre 2005. Le 26 septembre
2005, la commission d’enquête internationale entend la déposition de
Siddiq en présence du Colonel Hassan. Le lendemain, Siddiq établit une
reconnaissance de sa participation directe à l’assassinat de Hariri, un
document contresigné par l’officier libanais.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Depuis, <b>Hassan était accusé d’avoir participé à la falsification de
la déposition. Le colonel rejettera cette accusation assurant que sa
présence était uniquement justifiée pour les besoins de la traduction
des propos tenus en arabe par Siddiq. Des accusations persistantes de
l’opposition libanaise désignent le Colonel Hassan comme l’homme qui,
sous l’autorité du clan Hariri, a assuré la gestion du dossier du faux
témoin Zouheir Siddiq.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dans un zèle compensatoire, <b>Wissam Hassan veillera à maintenir
l’enquête sur les rails menant à la Syrie, dégageant de son passage,
pour s’y substituer, les quatre officiers supérieurs en charge de la
sécurité du pays, qu’il expédiera en prison, tant pour mettre la main
sur les dossiers sensibles de l’affairisme syro-Haririen au Liban, que
pour pourvoir au ravitaillement du Tribunal Spécial sur le Liban de son
contingent de faux témoins.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>L’homme que l’héritier vouait à prendre la tête d’un appareil
sécuritaire ultramoderne, à l’effet de faire contrepoids à l’armée et au
Hezbollah, la milice chiite armée, l’homme destiné à être le commandant
en chef de l’armée sunnite, représentée par les Forces de Sécurité
Intérieures (FSI), est, en fait, le talon d’Achille de Saad Hariri dans
sa confrontation avec son opposition</b>. Dans le feu de la bataille, alors
que le tribunal international menaçait de faire des révélations sur
l’implication des plus hautes autorités iraniennes et syriennes,
l’Ayatollah Ali Khaménéi, via les troupes d’élite des Pasdarans -la
brigade Al Qods »- une fuite opportune révélait au grand jour la nature
duplique de cet homme de l’ombre.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>La chaîne de télévision libanaise « New TV » diffusait, le 15 janvier
2011, à l’avant-veille de la remise des conclusions de l’enquête
internationale, un documentaire montrant Saad Hariri, Wissam Al Hassan,
Gerhard Lehman, l’assistant du procureur international, et le faux
témoin Zouhair Siddiq, dans des conciliabules s’apparentant à une
conjuration de cloportes. Sous réserve de son authenticité, ce document a
démasqué, au grand jour, la connivence entre les divers protagonistes
du clan pro occidental dans la fabrication des « faux témoins ».</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
L’origine de la fuite est sujette à controverse. <b>Une hypothèse
privilégie la piste de Gerhard Lehman, se fondant sur les précédentes
accusations d‘Hassan Nasrallah selon lesquelles l’enquêteur allemand
avait cherché à vendre la déposition des témoins de l’enquête
internationale. Une autre hypothèse pencherait plutôt vers la piste
Wissam Al-Hassan qui, selon cette thèse, aurait fait fuiter la vidéo
vers les services syriens pour se prémunir contre un éventuel retour de
bâton.</b><br />
Dans la tradition des chefs du renseignement du Moyen-Orient,<b> le général
Hassan est un personnage énigmatique, redouté dans son propre pays,
comme l’était son modèle maronite. Et si le masque énigmatique masquait
en fait une réputation non justifiée? </b>Et si ces fameux hommes de l’ombre
n’étaient que l’ombre de leur réputation? Une meilleure exposition
aurait-elle bridé les corrosives nuisances de leurs sombres manigances?
Rendue la démocratie au Liban moins ténébreuse?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Le mentor maronite a assisté impuissant à l’implosion de ses deux
poulains, le disciple, lui, s’est débattu de l’accusation de désertion,
consécutive à son soupçon d’abandon de poste, en pleine bataille
politique qui a coûté la vie au sens de sa mission.<br />
<b>Wissam Al Hassan a échoué dans les trois missions majeures à lui
assignées durant sa carrière: la protection de Rafic Hariri, la gestion
du dossier des faux témoins et le maintien sous verrou des quatre
officiers libanais, qui seront libérés après quatre ans de détention
avec leur concert de révélations.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Dans la grande épreuve de leur vie, tous les deux ont glané, non le
prix d’excellence, mais le zéro pointé. Wissam Hassan, étymologiquement
“la distinction honorifique au meilleur”, a assurément démérité son nom.
De sa vie, il en a payé le prix.</b><br />
Pour solde de tout compte <b>sans pour autant que cette mort ne mette un
terme à la guerre de l‘ombre que se livrent les deux grands fauves de la
guerre clandestine interarabe, Bandar Ben Sultan, l’ancien Great Gatsby
de l’establishment américain et son rival syrien,
le colonel Hafez Makhlouf, l’home secret du régime baasiste.</b></div>
<blockquote>
<h4>
Références</h4>
1 – Un attentat-suicide a visé mercredi 18 juillet 2012 à Damas le
centre du pouvoir syrien, emportant l’une des figures le plus
emblématiques du clan Assad, le général Assef Chawkat, le propre
beau-frère de Bachar Al-Assad. L’attentat, qui aurait été mené par un
membre de la garde rapprochée d’un des participants à une réunion du
Conseil national de sécurité, a emporté plusieurs hauts responsables de
l’appareil militaro sécuritaire syrien, notamment le ministre de la
défense, Daoud Rajha et le responsable de la cellule de crise chargée de
la rébellion, le général Hassan Turkmani.<br />
L’attaque est survenue deux semaines après la défection d’un membre
du premier cercle du pouvoir baasiste, le général Manaf Tlass, officier
supérieur de la garde présidentielle et fils de l’ancien ministre de la
défense, le général Moustapha Tlass..<br />
Cauda<br />
La polémologie du Moyen orient recense de nombreux attentats
infiniment plus spectaculaires et meurtriers que l’attentat de Damas du
18 juillet 2012, dont voici les plus importants<br />
• 1980 : Attentat des Moudjahidine Khalq contre le centre du pouvoir à
Téhéran, entraînant l’élimination des certains des principaux
dirigeants la hiérarchie politico religieuse de la République islamique
iranienne.<br />
• 6 octobre 1981 : Assassinat du président égyptien Anouar El Sadate<br />
• 15 septembre 1982 : Assassinat du président élu libanais Bachir Gemayel, la veille de son entrée en fonction<br />
• 1983 : Attentat de Beyrouth contre l’ambassade américaine provoquant
la décapitation de l’Etat-major de la CIA au Moyen orient.<br />
• 1984 : Attentat contre le QG israélien à Tyr, faisant deux cent vingt
victimes, dont le commandant des forces israéliennes au Sud Liban.<br />
• 1984 : Double attentat de Beyrouth contre le Quartier général des
forces américaines et le Drakkar, le PC français, provoquant une
hécatombe, fauchant près de quatre cents soldats et civils.<br />
• 1986 : Attentat d’Aden ourdi par le propre premier ministre Ali Nasser
Mohamad contre ses rivaux entrainant la décapitation de toute la
hiérarchie marxiste du Yémen sud, provoquant par ricochet une guerre
civile et la fuite de M. Ali Nasser vers Damas.</blockquote>
René Naba<br />
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Boni De Torhout, envoyé spécial au Liban et futur chef du service diplomatique de l’AFP,<br />
<b>René Naba, correspondant tournant de l’AFP et futur responsable du monde arabo-musulman au service diplomatique de l’AFP</b>,<br />
Georges Herbouze, directeur du bureau régional de l’AFP<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21 October 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>On October 19, Israeli Mossad car bombing killed
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deadly blast killed 8 people and injured another 78, mostly Lebanese
Christians.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Jewish film-maker, political commentator and former personal
secretary of Bertrand Russell, Ralph Schoeman 77, told Iranian <i>Press TV</i> that the bombing has all marks of Israeli Mossad.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>“<i>As 1992 to today in the day bombing of Beirut the identical
scenario, who benefits from attempting to divide Lebanon and spread the
turmoil, who benefits destabilizing the government in Damascus, who
states to destabilize Beirut and subject Lebanon to civil war, the
Zionist regime, the Mossad. It is a classical operation of Mossad</i>,” </b>he said.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lebanese Islamic Resistance, Hizballah, has condemned the bombing.
The pro-USrael opposition group March 14 lead by Sa’ad Hariri called for
the resignation of Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati, which he did –
but Lebanese president Michel Sulaiman refused to accept it saying that
Mikati cannot be blamed for the security breach. Both Hariri and Mikati
are Sunni billionaires and are not connected to Hizballah in any way.
Hizballah is member of the ruling March 8 Alliance.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It seems, the Zionist regime is playing its old covert operations to
pit Lebanese against each other. It carried a similar car bombing <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article167553.html">to assassinate Rafik Hariri in February 2005</a>.
It was part of Israeli soft revolution before its invasion of Lebanon
in Summer 2006. However, to western powers’ great surprise – the Jewish
army met its first major military defeat at the hands of Hizballah
fighters.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Israel and western Arab puppet rulers are trying to influence the
June 2013 parliamentary election by the western-sponsored armed
insurgency in neighboring Syria. In March 2012, <b>United Nations’ envoy
for the Middle East, Israel-Firster Jew Jeffrey Feltman told
pro-Israel-Saudi, ‘Lebanese American Organization’ that Hizballah and
its allies will be defeated in June 2013 election.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However, the recent Hizballah’s successful launching of a <a class="spip_out" href="http://rehmat1.com/2012/10/15/israel-sacks-iaf-commander-over-hizballah-drone/" rel="external">spy drone</a> over Israel proves that the Jewish army is to face worse surprises than it faced in 2006.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a class="spip_out" href="http://rehmat1.com/2012/10/21/mossad-behind-latest-beirut-bombing/" rel="external">Rehmat’s World</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Oct-19/192032-march-14-blames-syria-for-beirut-car-bombing.ashx#axzz29dpeQuAZ">http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Oct-19/192032-march-14-blames-syria-for-beirut-car-bombing.ashx#axzz29dpeQuAZ</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">October 19, 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BEIRUT</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"...the (lebanese) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party_in_Lebanon">Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party</a> blamed Israel for the explosion..."</span><br />
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<a href="http://arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com/2005/10/hariri-murder-witness-paid-to-charge.html" style="font-family: arial;">hariri murder: witness paid to charge syria</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002419428996101513.post-12289688219329710192012-10-17T08:31:00.000+01:002012-10-17T19:02:19.438+01:00nato betrays syrian rebellion and nevrotic erdogan<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176266.html">http://www.voltairenet.org/article176266.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>NATO packs it in; Turkey on the verge of a nervous breakdown </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thierry Meyssan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Damascus, 16 October 2012</span><br />
<br />
<div class="lettrine" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>On
October 8, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CTSO) began
maneuvers dubbed "Inviolable Fraternity" ("НЕРУШИМОЕ БРАТСТВО"). The
scenario focuses on the deployment of a peace force in an imaginary
country where international jihadists and terrorist organizations
operate against a backdrop of ethnic and confessional divisions. </b>The
accredited diplomatic corps, which was invited to attend the exercises,
listened attentively to the opening address of the deputy secretary
general of the organization. He clearly indicated that <b>the CTSO is
preparing for an eventual intervention in the Greater Middle East. And
for those feigning deafness, Nikolai Bordyuzha specified that his deputy
was not speaking of Afghanistan.</b></span></div>
<div class="lettrine" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Geneva Declaration negotiated by Kofi Annan on June 30 foresaw
the deployment of a peace force if the Syrian government and the
opposition jointly made the demand. The Free Syrian Army rejected the
accord. The term "opposition" refers only to the political parties who
have been meeting since in Damascus, under the aupices of the Russian
and Chinese ambassadors. As the Geneva Accord was validated by the
Security Council, the deployment of the "blue <i>chapkas</i>" can be set in motion without requiring an <i>ad hoc</i>
resolution. Valery Semerikov stated that 4,000 men had already been
enlisted in the Peace Force with 46,000 others in the wings available
for the rapid mobilization.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With this as background,<b> the signs of Western retreat from Syria are
multiplying. The influx of Western arms and combatants is drying up
except for the ongoing transfers funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Even more surprising: on six successive occasions, the NATO Command
at Incirlik gave jihadists instructions to regroup within specified
zones to prepare for huge offensives. While the Syrian Arab Army, which
was formed to confront the Israeli Army, may be ill-adapted for guerilla
warfare, it is highly effective in conventional combat. In each of
these engagements, it easily encircled and wiped out the assembled units
of the Free Syrian Army. Though the initial defeats suffered by the
jihadists could have been attributed to a tactical error or to an
incompetent commander, after the sixth debacle another hypothesis must
be considered: that NATO is willingly sending these combatants to their
deaths.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In contrast to popular perceptions, the motivation of the jihadists
is not, properly speaking, ideological or religious but rather,
aesthetic. They are not looking to die for a cause and are not focused
on the future of Jerusalem. They strike a romantic posture and seek to
intensify their sensations whether through drugs or through death. Their
behavior makes them easy to manipulate; they seek extreme situations
which they are then placed in, and their movements are totally steered.
Over the last years, Prince Bandar bin Sultan became the leading
architect of these assemblages, including those of al-Qaeda. He supplied
them with preachers promising a paradise where seventy virgins would
provide them with ecstatic pleasures not if they accomplished a
particular military or political feat but only if they died as martyrs
wherever Bandar had need for them.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It seems Prince Bandar has disappeared from the scene since the
attack on him on July 26. He may well be dead. From Morroco to Zinjiang,
the jihadists have been left to their own devices, without any real
coordination. <b>They could be recruited by any number of actors, as the
recent assassination of the U.S. Ambassador in Libya confirms. As a
result, Washington wants to unload this risky and burdensome rabble or
at the very least reduce their number. The orders that NATO gives to the
jihadists are designed to expose them to fire by the Syrian Arab Army
which is eliminating them en masse.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Recently, the French police killed a French Salafist who attacked a
Jewish business establishment. The investigation that followed revealed
that he belonged to a network including individuals that had gone to do
jihad in Syria. The British police made a similar discovery four days
later.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The message from Paris and London is that the French and British
killed in Syria were not agents on a secret mission but fanatics who
acted on their own initiative. This is obviously false because certain
of these jihadists were carrying communication instruments of NATO
specification, supplied by France and the United Kingdom. Whatever the
case, these events are marking the end of the Franco-British involvement
alongside the Free Syrian Army, while Damascus discretely exchanges its
prisoners. A page has been turned.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Under the circumstances, <b>one can understand the frustration of Turkey
and the Wahhabist monarchies who at the request of the Alliance
invested in the secret war unreservedly, but who now must assume alone
the failure of the operation. Going for broke, Ankara threw itself into a
series of provocations designed to prevent NATO from pulling out.
Anything goes, from the firing of Turkish artillery into Syrian
territory to the pirating of a civil airline. But these gestures are
counterproductive.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Specifically, the Syrian air plane coming from Moscow which was
turned around by Turkish fighters contained no weapons but rather
high-explosive detection equipment to be used for the protection of
civilians. Turkey, actually, did not seek to prevent Russia from
delivering material aimed at protecting Syrian civilians from terrorism
but aimed instead to increase tension by mistreating the Russian
passangers and refusing to allow their ambassador to render assistance.
Wasted effort: NATO did not react to the imaginary accusations put
forward by Recep Tayip Erdogan. The only consequence is that President
Putin has postponed <i>sine die</i> his visit to Ankara originally scheduled for the first half of December.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>There is a long way still to go on the path to peace. But even if
Turkey now or the Wahhabist monarchies later attempt to prolong the war,
a process has been set in motion. NATO is packing up and the media are
turning their gaze to other horizons.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a class="titre_serif_3" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur29.html?lang=en"><span lang="fr"><br /></span></a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Translation
<br /><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125486.html?lang=en">Michele Stoddard </a></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Source
<br /><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125492.html?lang=en">Information Clearing House (USA)</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176269.html">http://www.voltairenet.org/article176269.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>L’Otan plie bagage, la Turquie au bord de la crise de nerfs </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="lettrine" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>L’Organisation du Traité de Sécurité Collective
(OTSC) a débuté au Kazakhstan, le 8 octobre, des manœuvres intitulées
« Fraternité inviolable » (« НЕРУШИМОЕ БРАТСТВО »). Le scénario est
celui du déploiement d’une force de paix dans un pays imaginaire où
œuvrent des jihadistes internationaux et des organisations terroristes
sur fond de divisions ethno-confessionnelles.</b> Le corps diplomatique
accrédité, qui a été invité à assister à l’exercice, a écouté avec
attention le discours d’ouverture du secrétaire général adjoint de
l’Organisation. Il a clairement indiqué que<b> l’OTSC se prépare à
intervenir éventuellement au Grand Moyen-Orient. Et pour ceux qui font
la sourde oreille, Nikolai Bordyuzha a précisé que son adjoint ne
parlait pas de l’Afghanistan.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La Déclaration de Genève, négociée par Kofi Annan le 30 juin, prévoit
le déploiement d’une force de paix si le gouvernement syrien et
l’opposition en font l’un et l’autre la demande. L’Armée « syrienne
libre » a rejeté cet accord. Le terme « <i>opposition</i> » désigne donc
uniquement les partis politiques qui ont été réunis depuis, à Damas,
sous la houlette des ambassadeurs russe et chinois. L’accord de Genève
ayant été validé par le Conseil de sécurité, le déploiement de « chapkas
bleues » peut être mis en œuvre sans résolution <i>ad hoc</i>. Valery
Semerikov a précisé que 4 000 hommes sont d’ores et déjà affectés à
cette force de paix, tandis que 46 000 autres sont formés et peuvent
être mobilisés rapidement en renforts.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dans ce contexte, <b>les signes du retrait occidental de Syrie se
multiplient.</b> <b>Le flux d’armes et de combattants occidentaux s’est
interrompu, seuls continuent les transferts financés par l’Arabie
saoudite et le Qatar.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Beaucoup plus surprenant : six fois de suite, le commandement Otan
d’Incirlik a donné aux jihadistes des instructions de regroupement dans
des zones particulières pour se préparer à de vastes offensives. Or, si
l’Armée arabe syrienne, conçue pour affronter l’Armée israélienne, est
inadaptée à la guérilla, elle est au contraire très efficace dans les
combats classiques. Elle a donc, chaque fois, encerclé et anéanti les
éléments rassemblés de l’Armée « syrienne libre ». On pouvait penser la
première fois à une erreur tactique, la seconde à l’entêtement d’un
général incompétent, mais à la sixième fois, on doit envisager une
autre hypothèse : l’Otan envoie volontairement ces combattants à la
mort.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contrairement à la perception commune, la motivation des jihadistes
n’est pas à proprement parler idéologique ou religieuse, mais
esthétique. Ils n’entendent pas mourir pour une cause et se
désintéressent d’ailleurs du sort de Jérusalem. Ils épousent une posture
romantique et cherchent à exacerber leurs sensations que ce soit par
des drogues ou dans la mort. Leur comportement les rend facilement
manipulables : ils cherchent des situations extrêmes, on les y place et
on guide leur bras. Au cours des dernières années, le prince Bandar bin
Sultan était devenu le grand architecte de ces groupuscules, incluant
Al-Qaeda. Il les encadraient avec des prédicateurs leur promettant un
paradis où 70 vierges leur offriraient des plaisirs paroxystiques, non
pas s’ils atteignaient un objectif militaire particulier ou un but
politique, mais uniquement s’ils mouraient en martyrs là où Bandar avait
besoin d’eux.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Or, le prince Bandar a disparu de la scène depuis l’attentat dont il a
été victime le 26 juillet. Il est probablement mort. <b>Du Maroc au
Xinjiang, les jihadistes sont livrés à eux-mêmes, sans aucune
coordination véritable. Ils peuvent se mettre au service de n’importe
qui, comme l’a montré la récente affaire de l’assassinat de
l’ambassadeur états-unien en Libye. Par conséquent, Washington veut
désormais se débarrasser de cette piétaille devenue encombrante et
dangereuse, ou tout au moins en restreindre le nombre. L’Otan donne des
ordres aux jihadistes pour les exposer au feu de l’Armée arabe syrienne
qui les élimine en masse.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Par ailleurs, la police française a abattu le 6 octobre un salafiste
français qui avait commis un attentat contre un commerce juif. Les
perquisitions qui ont suivi ont montré qu’il appartenait à un réseau
incluant des individus partis faire le jihad en Syrie. La police
britannique a fait une découverte similaire quatre jours plus tard.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Le message de Paris et de Londres, c’est que les Français et les
Britanniques morts en Syrie n’étaient pas des agents en mission secrète,
mais des fanatiques agissant de leur propre initiative. C’est
évidemment faux puisque certains de ces jihadistes disposaient de
matériels de communication aux normes Otan, fournis par la France et le
Royaume-Uni. Quoi qu’il en soit, ces mises en scène marquent la fin de
l’implication franco-britannique aux côtés de l’Armée syrienne libre,
tandis que Damas restitue discrètement des prisonniers. Une page est
tournée.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dès lors, <b>on comprend la frustration de la Turquie et des monarchies
wahhabites qui, à la demande de l’Alliance, se sont investies sans
réserve dans la guerre secrète,</b> mais devront assumer seules l’échec de
l’opération. Jouant le tout pour le tout, <b>Ankara s’est lancé dans une
série de provocations visant à empêcher l’Otan de se dérober. Tout y
passe, depuis le positionnement de pièces d’artilleries turques en
territoire syrien jusqu’à la piraterie d’un avion civil. Mais ces
gesticulations sont contre-productives.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ainsi, l’avion de Syrian Air en provenance de Moscou qui a été
détourné par les chasseurs turcs ne contenait aucune arme, mais des
engins électroniques de protection civile destinés à détecter la
présence de fortes charges explosives. A vrai dire, la Turquie n’a pas
voulu empêcher la Russie de livrer un matériel destiné à protéger les
civils syriens du terrorisme, mais a tenté d’accroître la tension en
maltraitant des passagers russes et en empêchant leur ambassadeur de
leur porter assistance. Peine perdue : l’Otan n’a pas réagit aux
accusations imaginaires proférées par Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pour seule
conséquence, le président Poutine a annulé <i>sine die</i> sa visite prévue à Ankara le 15 octobre.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Le chemin vers la paix est encore long. Mais, même si la Turquie
aujourd’hui, ou les monarchies wahhabites demain, essayent de prolonger
la guerre, le processus est enclenché. L’Otan plie bagage et les médias
tournent progressivement leurs regards vers d’autres cieux.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">see also: </span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Oct-16/191631-turkish-minister-slams-eu-as-worlds-most-hypocritical-body.ashx#axzz29Vg9HA1G"> Turkish minister slams EU as world's most hypocritical body </a></span></b></div>
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October 16<br />
<b><br />Turkey's economy minister condemned the European Union on Tuesday as
the most hypocritical organisation in the world, in vitriolic remarks
which underlined the EU candidate country's growing alienation from
Brussels.</b><br />
...<br />
<b>Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan said it made him laugh
when he heard the EU had won the Nobel Peace Prize last week for
promoting peace, democracy and human rights over six decades.</b><br />
<b>"The
EU is the most two-faced union of all time. It is the most hypocritical
organisation in the world. This EU has kept Turkey waiting at its door
for 50 years,"</b> state-run Anatolian news agency reported Caglayan as
saying.<br />
<b>He attacked the EU for imposing visa requirements on
Turkish business visitors and quotas on goods, describing this as a "a
crime against humanity" and "torture" and condemned the award of the
Nobel prize to a body responsible for unfair competition.</b><br />
<b>"If you
award the EU with a prize for duplicity or hypocrisy, rather than one
for peace, then we'd say fair enough, we accept that," he said.</b><br />
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Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis told Reuters
that Erdogan deliberately chose not to refer specifically to Europe at
the party congress as a <b>"message to the narrow-minded politicians of
Europe"</b>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Towards a Western retreat from Syria </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> The Syria war drags on. Continuing it has become too expensive and too dangerous for its neighbors. Russia, which aims to re-establish itself in the Middle East, is trying to show the United States that it is in their best interest to allow Moscow to resolve the conflict.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thierry Meyssan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Damascus, 9 October 2012</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The military situation in Syria is turning against
those in Washington and Brussels who hoped to change the regime there by
force. Two successive attempts to take Damascus have failed and it has
become clear that that objective cannot be achieved.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On July 18th, an explosion killed the leadership of the Council of
National Security, signalling the beginning of a vast offensive during
which tens of thousands of mercenaries descended on the Syrian capital
from Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq. After several days of pitched
battles, Damascus was saved when the fraction of the population hostile
to the government chose out of patriotism to assist the National Army
rather than bid welcome to the forces of the FSA.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On September 26, al-Qaeda jihadists were able to penetrate the
interior of the Defense Ministry, disguised as Syrian soldiers and
carrying false papers. They intended to detonate their explosive vests
in the office of the joint chiefs of the military but did not get close
enough to their target and were killed. A second team attempted to take
over the national TV station to broadcast an ultimatum to the President
but were not able to reach the building as access was blocked moments
after the first attack. A third team targeted government headquarters
and a fourth was aimed at the airport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In both cases, <b>NATO coordinated the operations from its Turkish base
in Incirlik, seeking to provoke a schism at the core of the Syrian Arab
Army and rely on certain generals for the purpose of overthrowing the
regime. But the generals in question had long been identified as
traitors and marginalized from effective command. In the aftermath of
the two failed attacks, Syrian power was reinforced, giving it the
internal legitimacy necessary to go on the offensive and crush the FSA.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These failures put a damper on those who had been crowing in advance
that the days of Bashar al-Assad were numbered. In Washington,
consequently, those counselling withdrawal are carrying the day. <b>The
question is no longer how much time the «<i>Assad regime</i>» will hold
out but whether it costs the U.S. more to continue the war than to stop
it. Continuing it would entail the collapse of the Jordanian economy,
losing allies in Lebanon, risking civil war in Turkey, in addition to
having to protect Israel from the chaos. Stopping the war would mean
allowing the Russians to regain foothold in the Middle East and
strengthening the Axis of Resistance to the detriment of the
expansionist dreams of the Likud.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While <b>Washington’s response takes the Israeli dimension into account,
it has stopped heeding the advice of the Netanyahu government.
Netanyahu ended up undercutting himself through his manipulations behind
the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and through his shocking
interference in the American presidential campaign. If the long-term
protection of Israel is the goal rather than folding to the brazen
demands of Benjamin Netanyahu, a continued Russian presence is the best
solution. With one million Russian-speaking Israelis, Moscow will never
allow that the survival of that colony to be imperiled.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A glance backward is necessary here. <b>The war against Syria was
decided by the Bush Administration on September 15, 2001 during a
meeting at Camp David, as confirmed notably by General Wesley Clark.</b>
After having suffered several setbacks, NATO action had to be cancelled
due to the vetos of Russia and China. A «<i>Plan B</i>» then emerged,
involving the use of mercenaries and covert action once deploying
uniformed soldiers had become impossible.<b> Given that the FSA has not
scored a single victory against the Syrian Army, there have been
multiple predictions that the conflict will become interminable and will
progressively undermine the states of the region, including Israel. In
this context, Washington signed onto the Geneva Accord, under the
auspices of Kofi Annan.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subsequently, <b>the war camp torpedoed this agreement by organizing
leaks to the press concerning the West’s secret involvement in the
conflict, leaks that led to Kofi Annan’s immediate resignation. It also
played its two trump cards with the attacks on July 18 and September 26
and lost them both. As a result, Lakhdar Brahimi, Annan’s successor, has
been called on to resuscitate and implement the Geneva Accord.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the interim, <b>Russia did not remain idle: it obtained the creation
of a Syrian Ministry of National Reconciliation; supervised and
protected the meeting in Damacus of national opposition parties;
organized contacts between the U.S. and Syrian general staff; and
prepared the deployment of a peace force.</b> The first two measures
scarcely registered in the Western press while the last two were flatly
ignored.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nevertheless, as revealed by Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, <b>Russia addressed the fears of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
concerning Syrian chemical weapons. It verified that these were stored
in locations sufficiently secure not to fall into the hands of the FSA,
be seized by jihadists and used by them indiscriminately. Ultimately, it
gave credible guarantees to the Pentagon that the continuation in power
of so determined a leader as Bashar el-Assad is a more manageable
situation, for Israel as well, than allowing the chaos in Syria to
spread further.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Above all, Vladimir Putin accelerated the projects of the CSTO, the
Collective Security Treaty Organization, the anti-NATO defense alliance
that unites Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Tadjikstan and
Russia itself. <b>The foreign ministers of the CSTO adopted a shared
position on Syria and a logistical plan was drawn up for an eventual
deployment of 50,000 men. An agreement was signed between the CSTO and
the U.N. Peacekeeping Department that these «blue chapkas» would be used
in the zones of conflict under a U.N. Security Council mandate.</b> Joint
drills between the two are to take place from 8 to 17 October in
Kazakhstan under the label of «<i>Inviolable Fraternity</i>» to complete
the coordination between these two intergovernmental organizations. The
Red Cross and the IOM will also participate.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No official decision will be taken in the U.S. during the presidential campaign. Once that ends, peace might become conceivable.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Vers un retrait occidental de Syrie</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>La guerre de Syrie s’éternise. Sa poursuite est devenue trop coûteuse et trop dangereuse pour ses voisins. La Russie, qui ambitionne de se réinstaller au Proche-Orient, tente de démontrer aux Etats-Unis que leur intérêt bien compris est de la laisser résoudre le conflit. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Damas, 8 octobre 2012</span><br />
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<div class="lettrine" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">La situation militaire en Syrie s’est retournée au
détriment de ceux qui espéraient à Washington et à Bruxelles parvenir à
changer le régime par la force. Les deux tentatives successives de prise
de Damas ont échoué et il est désormais clair que cet objectif ne
pourra pas être atteint.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Le 18 juillet, une explosion décapitait le Conseil de sécurité
nationale et donnait le signal d’une vaste offensive de dizaines de
milliers de mercenaires convergeant de Jordanie, du Liban, de Turquie et
d’Irak sur la capitale. Après quelques jours de bataille acharnée,
Damas était sauvée, la fraction de la population hostile au gouvernement
choisissant par patriotisme d’aider l’Armée nationale plutôt que
d’accueillir l’ASL.</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Le 26 septembre, des jihadistes d’Al-Qaida pénétraient dans
l’enceinte du ministère de la Défense, déguisés en soldats syriens et
munis de faux papiers. Ils voulaient faire sauter leurs ceintures
d’explosifs dans le bureau de l’état-major, mais ne parvinrent pas à
proximité suffisante de leur cible et furent abattus. Une seconde équipe
devait s’emparer de la télévision nationale et lancer un ultimatum au
président, mais elle ne put s’approcher du bâtiment car son accès avait
été bloqué dans les minutes suivant la première attaque. Une troisième
équipe s’est dirigée vers le siège du gouvernement et une quatrième
devait attaquer l’aéroport.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dans les deux cas,<b> l’OTAN, qui coordonnait les opérations depuis sa
base turque d’Incirlik, espérait provoquer une fracture au sein de
l’Armée arabe syrienne et s’appuyer sur certains généraux pour renverser
le régime. Mais les généraux en question avaient été identifiés comme
traîtres depuis longtemps et privés de tout commandement effectif. Il ne
s’est donc rien passé de significatif et le pouvoir syrien est sorti
renforcé de ces deux coups ratés. Il a trouvé la légitimité intérieure
nécessaire pour se permettre de passer à l’offensive et d’écraser
rapidement l’ASL.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ces échecs ont fait perdre leur superbe à ceux qui caracolaient par
avance en affirmant que les jours de Bachar el-Assad étaient comptés.
Par conséquent, à Washington, les partisans du retrait sont en train de
l’emporter. <b>La question n’est plus de savoir combien de temps le « <i>régime de Bachar</i> »
tiendra encore, mais s’il est plus coûteux pour les États-Unis de
continuer cette guerre ou de l’arrêter. La continuer, c’est provoquer
l’effondrement économique de la Jordanie, c’est sacrifier ses alliés au
Liban, c’est risquer la guerre civile en Turquie, et c’est devoir
protéger Israël de ce chaos. L’arrêter, c’est laisser les Russes se
réinstaller au Proche-Orient et c’est renforcer l’Axe de la Résistance
au détriment des rêves expansionnistes du Likoud.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Or si<b> la réponse de Washington tient compte du paramètre israélien,
elle ne prend plus en considération l’avis du gouvernement Netanyahu.
Celui-ci a fini par indisposer à la fois en raison de ses manipulations
derrière l’assassinat de l’ambassadeur Chris Stevens et à cause de son
ahurissante ingérence dans la campagne électorale US. En définitive, si
l’on envisage la protection à long terme d’Israël et non pas les
exigences extravagantes de Benjamin Netanyahu, la présence russe est la
meilleure solution. Avec 1 million d’Israéliens russophones, jamais
Moscou ne laissera mettre en péril la survie de cette colonie.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Un retour en arrière est ici nécessaire. <b>La guerre contre la Syrie a
été décidée par l’administration Bush, le 15 septembre 2001 lors d’une
réunion à Camp David, comme l’a notamment attesté le général Wesley
Clark. </b>Après avoir été repoussée plusieurs fois, l’action de l’OTAN a dû
être annulée en raison des vétos russe et chinois. Un « <i>plan B</i> »
a alors été mis sur pied : recourir à des mercenaires et à l’action
secrète puisque le déploiement de soldats en uniforme était devenu
impossible. Cependant, <b>l’ASL n’ayant pas marqué une seule victoire
contre l’Armée arabe syrienne, beaucoup ont pronostiqué que le conflit
serait interminable et minerait progressivement les États de la région, y
compris Israël. Dans ce contexte, Washington a conclu le 30 juin un
accord avec la Russie à Genève, sous la houlette de Kofi Annan.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Toutefois,<b> le camp de la guerre a fait capoter cet accord en
organisant des fuites dans la presse sur l’engagement occidental secret
dans le conflit ; fuites qui ont contraint Kofi Annan à la démission
immédiate. Le camp de la guerre a joué ses deux cartes maîtresses les 18
juillet et 26 septembre et a perdu. Dès lors, Lakhdar Brahimi, le
successeur d’Annan, a été prié de ressusciter et de mettre en œuvre
l’Accord de Genève.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pendant ce temps,<b> la Russie n’a pas chômé. Elle a obtenu la création
d’un ministère syrien de la Réconciliation nationale, elle a supervisé
et protégé la réunion à Damas des partis d’opposition nationale, elle a
organisé des contacts entre les états-majors US et syrien, et elle a
préparé le déploiement d’une force de paix.</b> Les deux premières mesures
ont été prises à la légère par la presse occidentale et les deux
dernières ont été carrément ignorées.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pourtant, comme l’a révélé le ministre russe des Affaires étrangères,
Sergey Lavrov,<b> la Russie a répondu aux craintes de l’état-major US
relatives aux armes chimiques syriennes. Elle a pu vérifier que
celles-ci étaient stockées dans des lieux suffisamment sécurisés pour ne
pas tomber dans les mains de l’ASL, être détournées par des jihadistes
et utilisées par eux aveuglément, sauf changement de régime. Elle a pu
donner ainsi des garanties crédibles au Pentagone que le maintien au
pouvoir d’un leader qui a prouvé son sang-froid comme Bachar el-Assad
est une situation plus gérable, y compris pour Israël, que l’extension
du chaos à la Syrie.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Surtout, Vladimir Poutine a accéléré les projets de l’Organisation du
Traité de sécurité Collective (OTSC), l’Alliance défensive anti-OTAN
réunissant l’Arménie, la Biélorussie, le Kazakhstan, le Kirghizistan, le
Tadjikistan et bien sûr la Russie. <b>Les ministres des Affaires
étrangères de l’OTSC ont adopté une position commune sur la Syrie [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176139.html#nb1" id="nh1" rel="footnote" title="« Министры иностранных дел государств-членов ОДКБ одобрили заявления по Сирии и (...)">1</a>]. La logistique a été installée pour un éventuel déploiement de 50 000 hommes [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176139.html#nb2" id="nh2" rel="footnote" title="« Путину предлагают ввести войска в Сирию », Izvestia, 1er juin 2012.">2</a>].
Un accord a été signé entre l’OTSC et le département onusien de
maintien de la paix pour que des « chapkas bleues » puissent être
déployées dans les zones de conflit sous mandat du Conseil de sécurité [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176139.html#nb3" id="nh3" rel="footnote" title="« ОДКБ и ООН подписали Меморандум по миротворческой деятельности », Communiqué de (...)">3</a>].</b> Et des manœuvres communes ONU/OTSC auront lieu du 8 au 17 octobre au Kazakhstan sous le titre « <i>Fraternité inviolable</i> » pour finaliser la coordination entre les deux organisations intergouvernementales. La Croix-Rouge et l’OMI y participeront [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176139.html#nb4" id="nh4" rel="footnote" title="« Первое миротворческое учение государств-членов ОДКБ "НЕРУШИМОЕ БРАТСТВО-2012" (...)">4</a>].</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aucune décision ne saurait être officialisée par les États-Unis
durant leur campagne électorale présidentielle. Dès que celle-ci sera
terminée, la paix sera envisageable.</span></b><br />
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