Aujourd\u2019hui, 4 janvier 2007, messieurs Khaled Arfaoui, Ali Ben Salem, Radhouane Fez\u2019i, Ahmed Fez\u2019i, Ramzi Ben Sa\u00efd, Oualid Ben Sa\u00efd et Nidhal Boulaabi<\/font><\/strong> ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s devant la deuxi\u00e8me chambre criminelle du Tribunal de Premi\u00e8re Instance de Tunis, pr\u00e9sid\u00e9e par le juge Abderrazak Ben Mouna, afin d\u2019y r\u00e9pondre de plusieurs accusations en vertu des dispositions de la loi n\u00b075 du 10 d\u00e9cembre 2003, relative au soutien \u00e0 l\u2019effort international de lutte contre le terrorisme.<\/div>\n
Le juge a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de reporter l\u2019examen de l\u2019affaire au 23 janvier 2007 apr\u00e8s avoir ordonn\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9vacuer les accus\u00e9s de la salle, ceux-ci ayant manqu\u00e9 de respect envers la commission du tribunal : ils ne s\u2019\u00e9taient pas lev\u00e9s par consid\u00e9ration lorsque cette derni\u00e8re \u00e9tait entr\u00e9e dans la salle d\u2019audience. Le Code de proc\u00e9dure p\u00e9nale pr\u00e9voit l\u2019\u00e9loignement du pr\u00e9venu s\u2019il perturbe les d\u00e9bats par son attitude.<\/div>\n
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Bon, passons sur l\u2019option basique de la d\u00e9sinformation autour de laquelle le r\u00e9gime du 7 novembre a choisi, en toute connaissance de cause, de se construire et de durer. Les tunisiens ont appris depuis longtemps d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0\u00a0 faire et \u00e0 \u00a0vivre avec. Aussi la version officielle qui leur a \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9e au sujet des affrontements arm\u00e9s qui ont secou\u00e9 le pays, dix jours durant,\u00a0 du 23 d\u00e9cembre au 4 janvier, a \u00e9t\u00e9 naturellement trait\u00e9e\u00a0 par la d\u00e9rision et les moqueries. Sur les dix millions de tunisiens, il ne peut y avoir un seul qui ait pu croire un instant qu\u2019il s\u2019est agi d\u2019un accrochage entre des trafiquants de drogue et leur arm\u00e9e. Ils savent que les autorit\u00e9s de leur pays mentent et que les m\u00e9dias sont oblig\u00e9s de mentir. <\/span><\/p>\n
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Pour bien comprendre l\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nement, ses tenants et aboutissants, il importe de le contextuer. La n\u00e9buleuse terroriste plan\u00e9taire du nom d\u2019 \u00abEl Qa\u00efda\u00a0\u00bb a \u00e9tabli, comme on le sait, \u00e0 travers le globe, des sortes de succursales aux fins de frapper les centres vitaux d\u2019un occident tyrannique pour faire m\u00fbrir les conditions favorables \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9mergence d\u2019un ordre islamique pur et dur qui se serait r\u00e9concili\u00e9 avec l\u2019esprit originel des \u00ab\u00a0salafs\u00a0\u00bb, les premiers saints b\u00e2tisseurs du premier embryon de l\u2019Etat islamique. D\u2019o\u00f9 leur appellation de \u00ab\u00a0salafistes\u00a0\u00bb. Son fondateur, inspirateur et, aussi, bailleur de fond, le multimilliardaire Mr Oussama Ben Laden a r\u00e9cemment d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0s\u2019occuper\u00a0\u00bb du Maghreb et principalement du bastion du modernisme arabomusulman, cette Tunisie\u00a0 qui ne veut toujours pas se d\u00e9barrasser de l\u2019h\u00e9ritage id\u00e9ologique du \u00ab\u00a0m\u00e9cr\u00e9ant et ennemi de l\u2019Islam\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: Bourguiba. Le coran est y de nos jours, de surcro\u00eet, \u00a0foul\u00e9 aux pieds et les musulmanes y sont pers\u00e9cut\u00e9es en raison de leur port du voile. Il a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de passer \u00e0 l\u2019action apr\u00e8s l\u2019acte d\u2019all\u00e9geance \u00e0 sa personne et \u00e0 ses desseins de Mr Abou Mossaab Abdelwadoud, chef de l\u2019aile militaire irr\u00e9ductible du \u00ab\u00a0Groupe Salafiste de la Pr\u00e9dication et du Combat\u00a0\u00bb. Un des groupes arm\u00e9s qui ont mis l\u2019Alg\u00e9rie \u00e0 feu et \u00e0 sang durant les ann\u00e9es 90 et qui continue de s\u00e9vir dans les vastes contr\u00e9es\u00a0 alg\u00e9riennes. Un apport de premi\u00e8re importance tant\u00a0 est \u00e9tablie le savoir faire de ce groupe en mati\u00e8re de techniques de recrutement, de capacit\u00e9 de mouvement et d\u2019infiltration, de puissance de feu et de culte de la mort. Son intelligence strat\u00e9gique – qui explique sa dur\u00e9e –\u00a0 r\u00e9side dans l\u2019\u00e9tablissement de bases\u00a0 non pas fixes mais nomades \u00a0o\u00f9 ils forment les recrues des autres pays. Il leur fait \u00a0subir un endoctrinement et une ma\u00eetrise acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e\u00a0 des techniques de gu\u00e9rilla urbaine avant de les renvoyer dans leur pays d\u2019origine pour y accomplir\u00a0 toutes sortes d\u2019actes terroristes. Parmi les recrues\u00a0: des dizaines de jeunes tunisiens, probablement parmi les dizaines de milliers des dipl\u00f4m\u00e9s ch\u00f4meurs et dont les convictions islamistes les pr\u00e9disposent \u00e0 la martyrologie. Parmi les faits corroborant ces v\u00e9rit\u00e9s l\u2019arrestation, r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9e par le tr\u00e8s cr\u00e9dible quotidien alg\u00e9rien \u00ab\u00a0Al Khabar\u00a0\u00bb du 1^{er<\/sup> janvier 2007, par les autorit\u00e9s alg\u00e9riennes, de Mr Abou Al Mouthanna , charg\u00e9 des liaisons avec la cellule tunisienne d\u2019 \u00ab\u00a0Al Qa\u00efda \u00bb. Son arrestation a permis de r\u00e9v\u00e9ler la remise d\u2019importantes quantit\u00e9s de kalachnikovs et de pistolets automatiques\u00a0 aux tunisiens par Mr Abou Ammar, un conseiller du groupe terroriste alg\u00e9rien. A cela\u00a0 il faut\u00a0 ajouter l\u2019arrestation, \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2006, de 10 autres jeunes tunisiens\u00a0 par la police des fronti\u00e8res\u00a0: leur interrogatoire a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 qu\u2019ils s\u2019appr\u00eataient\u00a0 \u00e0 rejoindre\u00a0 une des bases de formation du groupe alg\u00e9rien.<\/span><\/p>\n}
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Mr Ben Ali a laiss\u00e9 dire qu\u2019il s\u2019agit de trafiquants de drogue. Malheureusement pour lui, personne ne l\u2019a cru. Parce que c\u2019est ridicule.<\/span><\/p>\n
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A mon humble avis, ce qui vient de se produire en Tunisie et qui risque de se reproduire dans ce m\u00eame registre, n\u2019est pas inqui\u00e9tant. Je vais peut \u00eatre surprendre plus d\u2019un, mais je ne m\u2019\u00e9tais senti \u00e0 aucun moment, durant ces derniers jours, saisi\u00a0 d\u2019inqui\u00e9tude, \u00e0 fortiori de panique. Contre ce type de dangers exog\u00e8nes, notre pays est d\u00e9fendu par d\u2019invincibles arm\u00e9es qui ont pour nom de guerre\u00a0: le Code du Statut Personnel, la culture du planning familial, l\u2019option moderniste de notre enseignement – ind\u00e9pendamment de son actuelle d\u00e9sastreuse baisse de qualit\u00e9 – la g\u00e9n\u00e9tique propension des tunisiens \u00e0 la non violence et, surtout, l\u2019authenticit\u00e9 du fait tunisien. Notre pays n\u2019\u00e9tant pas un \u00e9chafaudage confessionnel artificiel\u00a0 dessin\u00e9 par les compas et les \u00e9querres des strat\u00e8ges du condominium franco-britannique. La Tunisie a construit sa solidit\u00e9 et son homog\u00e9n\u00e9it\u00e9 sur plus de trois mille ans et\u00a0 a tours \u00e9t\u00e9 sculpt\u00e9 par le souffle de la reforme.<\/span><\/p>\n
Mr Ben Laden s\u2019est tromp\u00e9 de cible\u00a0: la Tunisie n\u2019est pas l\u2019Irak. S\u2019il pense que le retour notable des tunisiens aux mosqu\u00e9es et celui, tout autant notable, d\u2019une partie des tunisiennes au voile, est un appel implicite\u00a0 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tablissement d\u2019un ordre Salafiste,\u00a0 mieux vaut pour lui de d\u00e9chanter. Et rapidement. Ces tunisiens qui remplissent les mosqu\u00e9es et ces tunisiennes qui ont remis leur voile seront les premiers sur le front pour d\u00e9fendre leurs acquis modernistes\u00a0!!! N\u2019auront rien\u00a0 compris \u00e0 la Tunisie ceux qui n\u2019ont pas d\u00e9finitivement admis que le corps national tunisien, dans son \u00e9crasante majorit\u00e9 \u2013 musulmans (pratiquants ou non)\u00a0 la\u00efcs, ath\u00e9es, confondus – sont \u00e0 jamais vaccin\u00e9s\u00a0 contre le virus\u00a0 que portent les Ben Laden, El kalkachendi ou Sidi Ammar Bezzouer\u2026Contrairement aux autres pays semblables,\u00a0 les tunisiens ont leur r\u00e9volution culturelle derri\u00e8re eux, non devant eux\u2026 toute la diff\u00e9rence est l\u00e0\u00a0et ce \u00a0gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ceux qui ont, \u00e0 travers l\u2019histoire, exprim\u00e9 le mieux leur g\u00e9nie r\u00e9formiste, et \u00a0principalement –\u00a0 justement\u00a0! –\u00a0 Habib Bourguiba\u00a0!<\/span><\/p>\n
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Le danger, r\u00e9el, pour la Tunisie, n\u2019est pas exog\u00e8ne. Il est endog\u00e8ne. Il viendrait du pourrissent que le virus novembriste est en train de d\u00e9velopper. Ben Laden n\u2019aurait\u00a0 pas trouv\u00e9 de gisement de recrutement chez nous si ces jeunes\u00a0 tunisiens \u00e9taient r\u00e9concili\u00e9s avec la Tunisie qu\u2019ils souhaitent – et pas n\u00e9cessairement islamiste ou salafiste – \u00a0mais une Tunisie o\u00f9 il peuvent exprimer librement leurs convictions, y trouver des opportunit\u00e9s de travail honn\u00eate, construite r\u00e9ellement sur la pr\u00e9\u00e9minence des institutions et la souverainet\u00e9 de l\u2019urne, une Tunisie non assujettie \u00e0 une insolente, opulente et d\u00e9testable oligarchie. <\/span><\/p>\n
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Alli\u00e9e du GSPC en Alg\u00e9rie, Al-Qa\u00efda tente de s\u2019implanter dans les autres pays du Maghreb, au Maroc et en Tunisie o\u00f9 des cellules terroristes li\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019organisation de Ben Laden ont \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9cemment d\u00e9mantel\u00e9es. <\/strong> Les terroristes d’Al Qaida veulent se renforcer au Maghreb. (JPEG) Si les autorit\u00e9s tunisiennes ne veulent pas donner des indications sur la nature des \u201ccriminels\u201d, de nombreux observateurs y compris des organes de presse locaux voient en ces \u201ccriminels\u201d des terroristes apparent\u00e9s \u00e0 des salafistes ayant des liens avec Al-Qa\u00efda. M\u00eame si le r\u00e9seau a \u00e9t\u00e9, selon la presse tunisienne, an\u00e9anti en deux temps, il n\u2019en demeure pas moins que le nombre des \u00e9l\u00e9ments composant ce \u201cfoyer\u201d \u00e9valu\u00e9 \u00e0 une trentaine d\u2019hommes sugg\u00e8re une tentative des groupes arm\u00e9s li\u00e9s \u00e0 Al-Qa\u00efda de constituer des bases en Tunisie. Il faut savoir que le groupe de criminels a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9log\u00e9 avec le concours de l\u2019arm\u00e9e. Par ailleurs, l\u2019op\u00e9ration d\u2019an\u00e9antissement de ce groupe intervient une semaine seulement apr\u00e8s l\u2019arrestation, \u00e0 Meftah, pr\u00e8s d\u2019Alger, de deux terroristes tunisiens appartenant \u00e0 Al-Qa\u00efda qui s\u2019appr\u00eataient \u00e0 rejoindre les maquis du GSPC. Les deux terroristes venaient de Libye o\u00f9 ils \u00e9taient en contact avec d\u2019autres organisations terroristes comme le GICL (Groupe islamique combattant libyen). Au Maroc, c\u2019est le Groupe islamique marocain combattant (GIMC) qui serait derri\u00e8re les op\u00e9rations de recrutement pour l\u2019Irak. M\u00eame si plusieurs de ses chefs ont \u00e9t\u00e9 emprisonn\u00e9s en 2005, d\u2019autres \u00e9l\u00e9ments auraient repris le flambeau et ont continu\u00e9 \u00e0 mener dans la discr\u00e9tion des activit\u00e9s subversives. Ce sont eux qui sont aujourd\u2019hui point\u00e9s du doigt dans cette nouvelle affaire li\u00e9e au recrutement de volontaires pour l\u2019Irak. Le Maroc a d\u2019ailleurs d\u00e9sign\u00e9 les membres de la cellule que ses services de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 viennent d\u2019arr\u00eater comme appartenant \u00e0 Al-Qa\u00efda et d\u2019\u00eatre en relation avec le GSPC alg\u00e9rien. On sait qu\u2019\u00e0 El-Oued, dans le Sud alg\u00e9rien, un r\u00e9seau sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans le recrutement de volontaires pour l\u2019Irak a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9mantel\u00e9. Quelques jours plus tard, ce sont d\u2019autres membres de r\u00e9seaux vers\u00e9s dans la m\u00eame activit\u00e9 qui seront arr\u00eat\u00e9s dans la capitale. Pour la n\u00e9buleuse islamiste, l\u2019installation d\u2019une filiale dans cette partie de l\u2019Afrique a un double objectif : atteindre facilement l\u2019Europe, actuellement difficile d\u2019acc\u00e8s, et surtout l\u2019utilisation de groupes salafistes maghr\u00e9bins pour mener les attentats dans le Vieux continent. Le GSPC, qui a ralli\u00e9 Al-Qa\u00efda depuis plus de quatre mois est, aux yeux d\u2019Al-Zawahiri, le seul groupe qui puisse coordonner ces activit\u00e9s qui visent, dans un premier lieu, \u00e0 structurer la filiale Al-Qa\u00efda pour le Maghreb et le Sahel. L\u2019attentat de Bouchaoui contre une entreprise am\u00e9ricaine s\u2019inscrit, \u00e0 juste titre, dans cette strat\u00e9gie. L\u2019impact recherch\u00e9 par cet attentat n\u2019est pas seulement m\u00e9diatique, mais il est aussi mobilisateur dans le sens o\u00f9 il veut donner une autre dimension aux activit\u00e9s du GSPC. La guerre des Am\u00e9ricains en Irak, l\u2019agression contre le Liban et l\u2019embargo impos\u00e9 aux Palestiniens sont les principaux ingr\u00e9dients qui poussent ces jeunes \u00e0 se porter volontaires pour l\u2019Irak. Al-Qa\u00efda, qui se charge de ces exp\u00e9ditions, n\u2019h\u00e9site pas \u00e0 d\u00e9tourner parfois ces jeunes de leurs aspirations initiales en les orientant vers les maquis de leurs pays respectifs. Ces recrutements vont encore gagner de notori\u00e9t\u00e9 avec l\u2019abominable op\u00e9ration de pendaison du pr\u00e9sident irakien. \u201cCe sont ces b\u00eatises qui nourrissent les sentiments de haine envers certaines puissances accus\u00e9es d\u2019humilier les Arabes et les musulmans\u201d, nous a confi\u00e9 un officier charg\u00e9 de la lutte antiterroriste qui ajoute que ces jeunes se d\u00e9clarent, au nom du djihad, volontaires \u00e0 mourir en martyr. <\/span> (Source : \u00ab Libert\u00e9 \u00bb (Alg\u00e9rie), le 6 janvier 2007)<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
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By Mohammad Al-Hamroni, IOL Correspondent<\/strong> TUNIS \u2014 Last week’s clashes between Tunisian security agencies and gunmen have raised many questions about whether the so-called \u00ab\u00a0Salafist-Jihadist\u00a0\u00bb trend was picking up steam in the North African country. The state was quick to play down the news by giving the clashes criminal nature; however, alarm rings rang in the heads of analysts, who warned that the domino effect of the US-led invasion of Iraq reached Tunisia, mixed with social woes like towering unemployment rates and a tremendous sense of youth alienation due to state oppression of religious aspects in the secular country. \u00ab\u00a0The Salafist-Jihadist trend could be traced back to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the date of the country’s first trial of a man belonging to the group,\u00a0\u00bb Abdel-Raouf Al-Ayyadi, the lawyer of several Salafist-Jihadists in Tunisia, told IslamOnline.net Saturday, January 6. \u00ab\u00a0When it came to being in Tunisia, the trend had nothing to do with any other group, like Algeria’s Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (SGPC), which were preoccupied with jihad missions abroad in Palestine and Iraq,\u00a0\u00bb he added. Samir Bin Omar, another lawyer, agreed. \u00ab\u00a0Besides the plethora of satellite channels, regional developments after the 9\/11 attacks and the Iraq invasion have given impetus to the Salafist-Jihadist trend in Tunisia,\u00a0\u00bb he said, adding that the country did not know such groups before 2000. \u00ab\u00a0This group was at the very beginning focusing on jihad in Palestine and Iraq before shifting their attention to the mainland in 2005,\u00a0\u00bb he noted. The Tunisian government said Thursday, January 4, that 12 \u00ab\u00a0dangerous criminals\u00a0\u00bb had been killed in a shoot out with security forces south of Tunis. A further 15 people were arrested on Wednesday, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry. Wednesday’s gun battle followed clashes between security forces and gunmen on December 23, in which two gunmen were killed and two policemen wounded. But few newspapers challenged the state version of the incident and started reporting about the rise of the Salafist-Jihadist trend in Tunisia. The \u00ab\u00a0leaked\u00a0\u00bb reports linked the clashes to what they said \u00ab\u00a0a gang that sought to take up arms against the homeland to spark off sedition and create tension\u00a0\u00bb. A Tunisian editor-in chief was bold enough to describe the gang involved in the clashes as \u00ab\u00a0suicidal\u00a0\u00bb and linked the incidents to \u00ab\u00a0the current criminal attacks threatening all world countries,\u00a0\u00bb in a veiled reference to terrorism. \u00ab\u00a0Extremism will find no place in Tunisia,\u00a0\u00bb wrote Saleh Al-Hajjah, editor-in-chief of the Sareih daily. Restricted Freedoms The pundits spared some blame for restricted freedoms in Tunisia and the crackdown on Islamists and religiosity Human rights watchdogs have repeatedly denounced unfair trials of Islamist prisoners in Tunisia, many of whom have been sentenced to over 15 years in prison. Amnesty International has warned that hundreds of government opponents remained behind bars as the harassment of their families and rights campaigners continued. \u00ab\u00a0Tunisia is the only country in the Arab Maghreb region in which Muslim youths have no parties or groups through which they can express their views,\u00a0\u00bb said Bin Omar. \u00ab\u00a0The official crackdown on religiosity aspects in Tunisia has also sparked anger among many Tunisians.\u00a0\u00bb The government has launched a wide-scale campaign against imams during the holy month of Ramadan, replacing popular preachers with others who toe the state line. The debate on the hijab ban in Tunisia heated up in the past few months as human rights activists, lawyers and intellectuals lashed out at the government oppressive campaign launched every academic year against hijab-clad students. \u00ab\u00a0Some cancerous social woes, like towering unemployment rates among youths and social inequality, have further added insult to injury,\u00a0\u00bb added Bin Omar.\u00a0 Stereotyped Salafist But Ayyadi rejects to stereotype all Salafists as Muslim hardliners with violent tendencies. \u00ab\u00a0We cannot place all Tunisian Salafists in the same basket,\u00a0\u00bb stressed Ayyadi, pointing out to different and widespread types of Salafists in Tunisia. \u00ab\u00a0The Western term of \u00ab\u00a0jihadist Salafism\u00a0\u00bb is biased and only aims to tarnish the inner meaning of jihad,\u00a0\u00bb he told IOL. \u00ab\u00a0They want to associate jihad and Salafism to terrorism,\u00a0\u00bb he said, adding that eminent Muslim scholars such as Ahmed bin Hanbal and Ibn Taymiyah and reformist scholars such as Mohamed Abdou were members of the Salafist trend. Despite lack of statistics about the Salafist trend in Tunisia, estimates say that youths make the bulk of the trend in the country. Karen Armstrong, the prominent and prolific British writer on all three monotheistic religions, has criticized stereotyping the Arabic word \u00ab\u00a0jihad\u00a0\u00bb as merely meaning holy war. Armstrong stressed that jihad is \u00ab\u00a0a cherished spiritual value that, for most Muslims, has no connection with violence.\u00a0\u00bb Pope Benedict XVI has provoked international criticism for questioning the Islamic concept of Jihad and quoting a Byzantine emperor who said that Islam had spread by the sword.<\/font><\/div>\n
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Je me demande pourquoi depuis quelques jours on n\u2019arrive pas, en Tunisie, \u00e0 nous dire la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 sur ce qui vient de se passer, je parle bien s\u00fbr de la fusillade de Tunis et qui a fait 25, euh 12, ah non 15, puff je ne sais pas combien de morts et de bless\u00e9s, qui ils sont, des Martiens ? Des \u201ccriminels dangereux\u201d dit-on de sources officielles! Mon \u2026 !<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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De gr\u00e2ce, \u00e9pargnez-nous le discours simpliste et niaiseux et dites la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 aux Tunisiens ! Que de rumeurs, de sp\u00e9culations des pseudo-sp\u00e9cialistes de la Tunisie qui, bien \u00e9videmment, ne sont pas tunisiens, des pseudo-journalistes \u00e0 la con et des profiteurs de chaines de t\u00e9l\u00e9visions de merde qui veulent faire passer n\u2019importe quelle connerie, des soi-disant analystes \u00e0 deux sous, etc. !! Moi je les emmerde tous.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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Le gouvernement, lui, il nous prend pour des mono-neuronn\u00e9s qui ne savons pas faire la diff\u00e9rence entre une hypoth\u00e8se qui tient debout et qui pourrait \u00eatre cr\u00e9dible et une connerie vague et qui ne sert absolument \u00e0 rien, sinon \u00e0 faire prolif\u00e9rer les rumeurs ! Bien s\u00fbr on a parfois tendances \u00e0 vouloir entendre ce que l\u2019on veut, dans ce cas, pas du tout! juste la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 quelle qu\u2019elle soit avec des preuves \u00e0 l\u2019appui pour que l\u2019on sache mieux analyser la situation! On ne demande pas la lune et ce n\u2019est pas la mer \u00e0 boire non plus, alors \u2026 !<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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(Source\u00a0: le blog \u00ab\u00a0Tac O Tac\u00a0\u00bb, le 5 janvier 2007)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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Ce dimanche, le journal \u00ab\u00a0La Presse\u00a0\u00bb (gouvernemental) reste toujours muet sur les affrontements des derniers jours et se contente de publier les articles suivants qui \u00ab\u00a0tournent autour du pot\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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D\u00e9mocratie et d\u00e9veloppement<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
Coh\u00e9sion nationale autour des choix pr\u00e9sidentiels<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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La Presse \u2014 <\/span><\/b> L\u2019\u00e9difice de la d\u00e9mocratie en Tunisie, initi\u00e9 depuis pr\u00e8s de deux d\u00e9cennies, conna\u00eet, chaque jour, une avanc\u00e9e \u00e0 la faveur d\u2019une \u00e9coute permanente des diff\u00e9rentes composantes de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 et des diverses sensibilit\u00e9s politiques du pays.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Lanc\u00e9 depuis la r\u00e9alisation du pacte national qui fut un engagement politique et moral au service de la patrie, le consensus national a \u00e9t\u00e9 et demeure une constante de l\u2019approche du Pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali pour faire progresser, \u00e0 tous les niveaux, l\u2019\u0153uvre de r\u00e9forme globale afin que la Tunisie r\u00e9ussisse sa marche vers le progr\u00e8s, consolide son invuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 et r\u00e9alise son arrimage avec le monde d\u00e9velopp\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n
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C\u2019est ainsi que le Chef de l\u2019Etat a fait de l\u2019\u00e9volution solidaire des \u00e9tapes successives de son projet civilisationnel une r\u00e8gle d\u2019or qui a \u00e9pargn\u00e9 \u00e0 la Tunisie les sauts dans l\u2019inconnu et au peuple tunisien les incertitudes et les aventures que connaissent, h\u00e9las, plusieurs pays aujourd\u2019hui et qui vivent, dans la souffrance, leurs atrocit\u00e9s aveugles.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Ainsi, chaque occasion que les Tunisiens ont f\u00eat\u00e9e, aura \u00e9t\u00e9 un moment fort pour de nouvelles initiatives embrassant les domaines politique, \u00e9conomique, social et culturel, et touchant toutes les g\u00e9n\u00e9rations, toutes les r\u00e9gions et toutes les cat\u00e9gories sociales.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Les derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cisions datent de la fin de l\u2019an 2006 et ont concern\u00e9 \u2014 fait symbolique \u2014 l\u2019insertion de jeunes Tunisiens dans le circuit de l\u2019emploi et l\u2019am\u00e9lioration des conditions de vie dans les quartiers populaires.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Des mesures qui illustrent la conception coh\u00e9rente et la vision novatrice du r\u00f4le de l\u2019Etat dans les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s modernes sur fond d\u2019un \u00e9lan de solidarit\u00e9 sans cesse renouvel\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Aussi, l\u2019on peut ais\u00e9ment comprendre et appr\u00e9hender la coh\u00e9sion nationale autour des choix pr\u00e9sidentiels et la fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre grandiose, aux acquis remarquables que la Tunisie a engrang\u00e9s pour le bien de ses femmes, de ses hommes, de ses enfants et de ses citoyens les plus vuln\u00e9rables et \u00e0 besoins sp\u00e9cifiques.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Etat s\u00e9culaire, pays de r\u00e9forme et d\u2019ouverture, la Tunisie peut se pr\u00e9valoir, dans un contexte mondial de grande turbulence, d\u2019institutions solides, d\u2019une stabilit\u00e9 qui offre aux citoyens, aux r\u00e9sidents, aux visiteurs et aux investisseurs \u00e9trangers, toutes les conditions d\u2019une vie sereine, dans une atmosph\u00e8re de qui\u00e9tude et de grands espoirs pour un avenir meilleur pour tous.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Les Tunisiens qui mesurent, \u00e0 leur juste valeur, les progr\u00e8s qu\u2019ont pu r\u00e9aliser, gr\u00e2ce aux diff\u00e9rentes r\u00e9formes entreprises au niveau de l\u2019Etat et de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 et aux vertus de l\u2019autonomie de la d\u00e9cision nationale, cinquante ans apr\u00e8s l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance, sont plus que jamais d\u00e9termin\u00e9s, \u00e0 travers leur adh\u00e9sion \u00e0 la grande ambition pour la Tunisie d\u00e9finie par l\u2019artisan du Changement, \u00e0 pr\u00e9server et \u00e0 d\u00e9fendre jalousement leur identit\u00e9 nationale et \u00e0 consolider leur souverainet\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Car, ils sont convaincus, comme l\u2019a rappel\u00e9, le 7-Novembre dernier, le Pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali que : \u00abLe pr\u00e9sent et l\u2019avenir de la Tunisie se construisent par les bras et les cerveaux de ses citoyens, dans le cadre de la fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 au pass\u00e9 prestigieux de nos parents et anc\u00eatres et de notre immense patrimoine de r\u00e9forme et de l\u2019all\u00e9geance \u00e0 la Tunisie et \u00e0 elle seule.\u00bb<\/i> Une fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 qui rejette l\u2019extr\u00e9misme et qui est \u00e9rig\u00e9e en rempart solide contre tous les courants r\u00e9trogrades.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Promouvoir davantage la vie politique<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
Par M\u2019hamed JAIBI<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
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Recevant M. Mohamed Bouchiha, vendredi dernier, le Pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali a r\u00e9affirm\u00e9 sa volont\u00e9 de promouvoir davantage la vie politique et d\u2019aller de l\u2019avant sur la voie de la cons\u00e9cration du processus pluraliste et de la pr\u00e9servation de l\u2019autonomie de la d\u00e9cision nationale. <\/span><\/p>\n
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Une r\u00e9affirmation qui intervient une semaine apr\u00e8s le message du Nouvel An dans lequel le Chef de l\u2019Etat a r\u00e9it\u00e9r\u00e9 sa ferme d\u00e9termination \u00e0 continuer \u00e0 enrichir sans cesse la d\u00e9mocratie, le pluralisme et les droits de l\u2019homme.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\u00abLa d\u00e9termination du Pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali et sa foi en ces constantes repr\u00e9sentent pour nous, et pour tous ceux qui croient en la d\u00e9mocratie et qui s\u2019attachent aux acquis du r\u00e9gime r\u00e9publicain (\u2026), un stimulant suppl\u00e9mentaire pour promouvoir notre pays\u00bb, <\/span><\/i> a comment\u00e9 le secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Parti de l\u2019Unit\u00e9 Populaire.<\/span><\/p>\n
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L\u2019entretien a donn\u00e9 au secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du PUP l\u2019occasion de soumettre au Chef de l\u2019Etat les approches de son parti concernant l\u2019impulsion du processus pluraliste.<\/span><\/p>\n
Le 7 novembre dernier, rappelons-nous, le Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique avait appel\u00e9 les diff\u00e9rentes forces politiques, syndicales et associatives \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter leurs vues et leurs propositions quant \u00e0 l\u2019avenir du pays.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Le PUP aura, ainsi, \u00e9t\u00e9 la premi\u00e8re formation \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 cet appel solennel, de la mani\u00e8re la plus concr\u00e8te et la plus officielle.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Deux mois \u00e0 peine apr\u00e8s l\u2019invitation lanc\u00e9e par le Pr\u00e9sident Ben Ali, \u00e0 une plus grande participation des partis politiques \u00e0 la \u00abpromotion de l\u2019\u00e9quation d\u00e9mocratique\u00bb, l\u2019un d\u2019entre eux s\u2019empresse d\u2019exposer au Chef de l\u2019Etat sa vision et ses suggestions.<\/span><\/p>\n
M. Bouchiha a fait part au Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique, \u00e0 l\u2019occasion, des salutations et des sentiments de consid\u00e9ration des militants et cadres du PUP, et de leur \u00abengagement r\u00e9solu \u00e0 contribuer \u00e0 l\u2019enrichissement du processus pluraliste et \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense des acquis du r\u00e9gime r\u00e9publicain, dans le cadre d\u2019une opposition nationale responsable.\u00bb<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
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Le Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique qui s\u2019est attach\u00e9, depuis le d\u00e9part, \u00e0 mettre en branle un processus d\u00e9mocratique pluraliste associant un large \u00e9ventail de familles politiques et de convictions intellectuelles, a rappel\u00e9, \u00e0 l\u2019occasion du 19e anniversaire du Changement, sa r\u00e9solution de consolider ce processus, revenant, \u00e0 l\u2019occasion, \u00e0 cette initiative rassembleuse qu\u2019avait repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 le Pacte national sign\u00e9, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque, par toutes les tendances, ainsi que les centrales socioprofessionnelles et les grandes organisations nationales et associations.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Le Chef de l\u2019Etat, toujours soucieux de relancer les bases d\u2019un consensus national actif qui fasse avancer le pays sur la voie du d\u00e9veloppement, de la modernit\u00e9 et d\u2019une d\u00e9mocratie pluraliste \u00e9volu\u00e9e, souhaite \u00eatre en mesure d\u2019annoncer, \u00e0 l\u2019occasion du 20e anniversaire du 7 novembre 1987, un ensemble de r\u00e9solutions strat\u00e9giques engageant l\u2019avenir du pays sur les plans politique, \u00e9conomique, social, culturel et humain, qui puisse prendre en ligne de compte les approches et propositions des diff\u00e9rents partis politiques, des forces sociales et des composantes de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Il s\u2019agit d\u2019une nouvelle \u00e9tape dans la promotion de la vie politique, qui exige donc que s\u2019impliquent toutes les \u00e9nergies nationales, dans leur richesse et leur diversit\u00e9. Afin que le pluralisme et la d\u00e9mocratie impr\u00e8gnent les m\u00e9canismes de la r\u00e9flexion, du d\u00e9bat national et de la d\u00e9cision politique. <\/span><\/p>\n
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Afin aussi, que l\u2019ensemble des forces politiques et sociales puissent assurer pleinement leur r\u00f4le dans la promotion et la d\u00e9fense des acquis consensuels et dans la consolidation et l\u2019approfondissement du climat de coh\u00e9sion dans le d\u00e9bat et la concertation. Sur la base d\u2019une plateforme qui sache sceller les choix fondamentaux d\u2019un pays souverain engag\u00e9 avec d\u00e9termination sur la voie d\u2019une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 harmonieuse et \u00e9quilibr\u00e9e bas\u00e9e sur la redistribution des richesses, la solidarit\u00e9 et la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9 partag\u00e9e et inscrite de plain-pied dans la dynamique mondiale de progr\u00e8s et de modernit\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n
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(Source\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0La Presse\u00a0\u00bb du 7 janvier 2007)<\/b><\/p>\n
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Une strat\u00e9gie de l’humiliation et de l’aventure<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
Pr. Sa\u00efd Mestiri<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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Au vu de la r\u00e9probation universelle qui a suivi l\u2019ex\u00e9cution de l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident irakien Saddam Hussein, les autorit\u00e9s am\u00e9ricaines ont cherch\u00e9 par diff\u00e9rents moyens \u00e0 retirer leur \u00e9pingle du jeu. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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Sans prendre position sur le fond du probl\u00e8me – la d\u00e9cision d\u2019ex\u00e9cution elle-m\u00eame – en en rejetant la responsabilit\u00e9 sur les autorit\u00e9s irakiennes, ils ont donn\u00e9 leur avis sur ses seules modalit\u00e9s techniques, disant que : \u00ab si c\u2019\u00e9taient nous, les choses se seraient pass\u00e9es diff\u00e9remment \u00bb (\u00ab You know, if you\u2019re asking me, \u201d would we have done things diff\u00e9rently? \u201d Yes we would have \u00bb propos du G\u00e9n\u00e9ral William Caldwell cit\u00e9 par l\u2019International Herald Tribune du 4\/1\/2007).<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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En fait, en d\u00e9pit de ces mises au point r\u00e9it\u00e9r\u00e9es et compte tenu des conditions existant actuellement en Irak, il est difficile de croire qu\u2019un \u00e9v\u00e9nement de l\u2019envergure de cet horrible sc\u00e9nario macabre de l\u2019ex\u00e9cution de l\u2019ancien chef d\u2019Etat irakien, ait pu \u00eatre, programm\u00e9, ex\u00e9cut\u00e9 et film\u00e9, sans l\u2019adh\u00e9sion des autorit\u00e9s d\u2019occupation am\u00e9ricaines. Aussi la question revient-elle d\u2019abord \u00e0 se demander pourquoi elles ont laiss\u00e9 faire ce glorieux \u00ab fait d\u2019armes \u00bb qui a soulev\u00e9 l\u2019indignation du monde entier et d\u00e9grad\u00e9 encore plus une image des Etats-Unis, d\u00e9j\u00e0 bien entam\u00e9e par ailleurs. Plus important encore, cette politique va brutalement \u00e0 l\u2019encontre de la politique officielle, mille fois proclam\u00e9e par le pr\u00e9sident Bush et ses conseillers, celle de favoriser la r\u00e9conciliation entre les diff\u00e9rentes communaut\u00e9s irakiennes, et d\u2019accro\u00eetre la cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 d\u2019un gouvernent irakien, qu\u2019on tendait plut\u00f4t \u00e0 qualifier de fantoche.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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Parmi les nombreuses hypoth\u00e8ses qu\u2019on peut avancer, il en est d\u2019assez futiles que l\u2019on peut \u00e9carter, comme celle, \u00e9voqu\u00e9e par certains commentateurs, d\u2019une \u00ab b\u00e9vue \u00bb, d\u2019une \u00ab colossale stupidit\u00e9 \u00bb, ou comme celle d\u2019une manifestation ultime de vengeance personnelle. Passons sur ces images traduisant, sans aucun doute, une volont\u00e9 r\u00e9elle d\u2019humiliation et exprimant un message de haine \u00e0 peine voil\u00e9 ; en quelque sorte une remise en honneur de l\u2019antique \u00ab malheur au vaincu \u00bb qui par del\u00e0 le condamn\u00e9, devait s\u2019adresser \u00e0 l\u2019ensemble de sa communaut\u00e9. Mais faut-il ne voir dans cette affaire que des satisfactions d\u2019ordre bassement \u00e9motionnel ou celles d\u2019une pr\u00e9tendue exigence de morale et de justice ?<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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Selon des instances encore bien en cour \u00e0 Washington, l\u2019id\u00e9e – machiav\u00e9lique ou pas – d\u2019imprimer un \u00ab coup de fouet \u00bb \u00e0 la guerre civile inter-irakienne, ne va pas obligatoirement, \u00e0 bien y r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir, \u00e0 l\u2019encontre des int\u00e9r\u00eats am\u00e9ricains et m\u00e9rite d\u2019\u00eatre s\u00e9rieusement envisag\u00e9e. Aucun scrupule, en tout cas, ne semble avoir effleur\u00e9, \u00e0 ce sujet, les t\u00eates pensantes des N\u00e9oconservateurs. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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A partir du moment o\u00f9 l\u2019on pourra s\u2019arranger pour mettre th\u00e9oriquement \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cart, \u00e0 l\u2019abri ou comme \u00ab arbitres \u00bb les troupes am\u00e9ricaines, on peut laisser les fractions rivales s\u2019entretuer \u00e0 leur guise, et les groupes Chiites \u00e9liminer les groupes Sunnites qui sont le c\u0153ur de la r\u00e9bellion. Elles ach\u00e8veront ainsi le travail que les G I\u2019s n\u2019ont pu r\u00e9aliser jusque-l\u00e0. Cette strat\u00e9gie aura pour premi\u00e8re cons\u00e9quence la mise au placard du plan Baker pour longtemps, et aboutira ensuite, selon ses protagonistes, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9limination d\u00e9finitive de toute r\u00e9sistance irakienne, des cadres et des structures r\u00e9siduelles de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile. On pourra ainsi – comme l\u2019avait fait jadis Hitler – promettre \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl et aux monarchies p\u00e9troli\u00e8res, paix et tranquillit\u00e9 pour mille ans, en attendant l\u2019arriv\u00e9e du Messie pour les uns, et du Mahdi pour les autres !<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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On peut toujours affabuler, dira-t-on, mais les \u00e9v\u00e9nements qui ont marqu\u00e9 l\u2019Histoire r\u00e9cente, nous ont montr\u00e9, malheureusement, que les \u00e9lucubrations de ces gens-l\u00e0 ont connu parfois des d\u00e9buts de concr\u00e9tisation.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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Le peuple irakien, h\u00e9ritier d\u2019une civilisation trois fois mill\u00e9naire qui vit peut-\u00eatre les moments les plus tragiques de son Histoire, est le premier conscient de ces graves menaces qui p\u00e8sent sur son unit\u00e9, sur son existence m\u00eame. Esp\u00e9rons qu\u2019il trouvera en lui-m\u00eame les ressources ultimes pour y faire face.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
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(Source\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Kalima\u00a0\u00bb, N\u00b0 49, Janvier 2007)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
Lien\u00a0: http:\/\/www.kalimatunisie.com\/article.php?id=433<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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A dictator created then destroyed by America<\/font><\/h3>\n
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Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold – that crack of the neck at the end of a rope – than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a \u00ab\u00a0great day\u00a0\u00bb for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed – by the Iraqi \u00ab\u00a0government\u00a0\u00bb, but on behalf of the Americans – on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world. But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers – what about the other guilty men? No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don’t gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn’t invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead – and thousands of Western troops are dead – because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality. In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent – we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam’s shame at Abu Ghraib – and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created. Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam’s weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability. And the mass killings we perpetrated in 2003 with our depleted uranium shells and our \u00ab\u00a0bunker buster\u00a0\u00bb bombs and our phosphorous, the murderous post-invasion sieges of Fallujah and Najaf, the hell-disaster of anarchy we unleashed on the Iraqi population in the aftermath of our \u00ab\u00a0victory\u00a0\u00bb – our \u00ab\u00a0mission accomplished\u00a0\u00bb – who will be found guilty of this? Such expiation as we might expect will come, no doubt, in the self-serving memoirs of Blair and Bush, written in comfortable and wealthy retirement. Hours before Saddam’s death sentence, his family – his first wife, Sajida, and Saddam’s daughter and their other relatives – had given up hope. \u00ab\u00a0Whatever could be done has been done – we can only wait for time to take its course,\u00a0\u00bb one of them said last night. But Saddam knew, and had already announced his own \u00ab\u00a0martyrdom\u00a0\u00bb: he was still the president of Iraq and he would die for Iraq. All condemned men face a decision: to die with a last, grovelling plea for mercy or to die with whatever dignity they can wrap around themselves in their last hours on earth. His last trial appearance – that wan smile that spread over the mass-murderer’s face – showed us which path Saddam intended to walk to the noose. I have catalogued his monstrous crimes over the years. I have talked to the Kurdish survivors of Halabja and the Shia who rose up against the dictator at our request in 1991 and who were betrayed by us – and whose comrades, in their tens of thousands, along with their wives, were hanged like thrushes by Saddam’s executioners. I have walked round the execution chamber of Abu Ghraib – only months, it later transpired, after we had been using the same prison for a few tortures and killings of our own – and I have watched Iraqis pull thousands of their dead relatives from the mass graves of Hilla. One of them has a newly-inserted artificial hip and a medical identification number on his arm. He had been taken directly from hospital to his place of execution. Like Donald Rumsfeld, I have even shaken the dictator’s soft, damp hand. Yet the old war criminal finished his days in power writing romantic novels. It was my colleague, Tom Friedman – now a messianic columnist for The New York Times – who perfectly caught Saddam’s character just before the 2003 invasion: Saddam was, he wrote, \u00ab\u00a0part Don Corleone, part Donald Duck\u00a0\u00bb. And, in this unique definition, Friedman caught the horror of all dictators; their sadistic attraction and the grotesque, unbelievable nature of their barbarity. But that is not how the Arab world will see him. At first, those who suffered from Saddam’s cruelty will welcome his execution. Hundreds wanted to pull the hangman’s lever. So will many other Kurds and Shia outside Iraq welcome his end. But they – and millions of other Muslims – will remember how he was informed of his death sentence at the dawn of the Eid al-Adha feast, which recalls the would-be sacrifice by Abraham, of his son, a commemoration which even the ghastly Saddam cynically used to celebrate by releasing prisoners from his jails. \u00ab\u00a0Handed over to the Iraqi authorities,\u00a0\u00bb he may have been before his death. But his execution will go down – correctly – as an American affair and time will add its false but lasting gloss to all this – that the West destroyed an Arab leader who no longer obeyed his orders from Washington, that, for all his wrongdoing (and this will be the terrible get-out for Arab historians, this shaving away of his crimes) Saddam died a \u00ab\u00a0martyr\u00a0\u00bb to the will of the new \u00ab\u00a0Crusaders\u00a0\u00bb. When he was captured in November of 2003, the insurgency against American troops increased in ferocity. After his death, it will redouble in intensity again. Freed from the remotest possibility of Saddam’s return by his execution, the West’s enemies in Iraq have no reason to fear the return of his Baathist regime. Osama bin Laden will certainly rejoice, along with Bush and Blair. And there’s a thought. So many crimes avenged. But we will have got away with it. (Source: \u201cThe Independent\u201d (Grande Bretagne), le 30 d\u00e9cembre 2006)<\/font><\/strong> Lien : http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/fisk\/article2112555.ece<\/div>\n
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How the West armed Saddam, fed him intelligence on his ‘enemies’, equipped him for atrocities – and then made sure he wouldn’t squeal <\/strong> We’ve shut him up. The moment Saddam’s hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor in Baghdad yesterday morning, Washington’s secrets were safe. The shameless, outrageous, covert military support which the United States – and Britain – gave to Saddam for more than a decade remains the one terrible story which our presidents and prime ministers do not want the world to remember. And now Saddam, who knew the full extent of that Western support – given to him while he was perpetrating some of the worst atrocities since the Second World War – is dead. Gone is the man who personally received the CIA’s help in destroying the Iraqi communist party. After Saddam seized power, US intelligence gave his minions the home addresses of communists in Baghdad and other cities in an effort to destroy the Soviet Union’s influence in Iraq. Saddam’s mukhabarat visited every home, arrested the occupants and their families, and butchered the lot. Public hanging was for plotters; the communists, their wives and children, were given special treatment – extreme torture before execution at Abu Ghraib. There is growing evidence across the Arab world that Saddam held a series of meetings with senior American officials prior to his invasion of Iran in 1980 – both he and the US administration believed that the Islamic Republic would collapse if Saddam sent his legions across the border – and the Pentagon was instructed to assist Iraq’s military machine by providing intelligence on the Iranian order of battle. One frosty day in 1987, not far from Cologne, I met the German arms dealer who initiated those first direct contacts between Washington and Baghdad – at America’s request. \u00ab\u00a0Mr Fisk… at the very beginning of the war, in September of 1980, I was invited to go to the Pentagon,\u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00ab\u00a0There I was handed the very latest US satellite photographs of the Iranian front lines. You could see everything on the pictures. There were the Iranian gun emplacements in Abadan and behind Khorramshahr, the lines of trenches on the eastern side of the Karun river, the tank revetments – thousands of them – all the way up the Iranian side of the border towards Kurdistan. No army could want more than this. And I travelled with these maps from Washington by air to Frankfurt and from Frankfurt on Iraqi Airways straight to Baghdad. The Iraqis were very, very grateful!\u00a0\u00bb I was with Saddam’s forward commandos at the time, under Iranian shellfire, noting how the Iraqi forces aligned their artillery positions far back from the battle front with detailed maps of the Iranian lines. Their shelling against Iran outside Basra allowed the first Iraqi tanks to cross the Karun within a week. The commander of that tank unit cheerfully refused to tell me how he had managed to choose the one river crossing undefended by Iranian armour. Two years ago, we met again, in Amman and his junior officers called him \u00ab\u00a0General\u00a0\u00bb – the rank awarded him by Saddam after that tank attack east of Basra, courtesy of Washington’s intelligence information. Iran’s official history of the eight-year war with Iraq states that Saddam first used chemical weapons against it on 13 January 1981. AP’s correspondent in Baghdad, Mohamed Salaam, was taken to see the scene of an Iraqi military victory east of Basra. \u00ab\u00a0We started counting – we walked miles and miles in this fucking desert, just counting,\u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00ab\u00a0We got to 700 and got muddled and had to start counting again … The Iraqis had used, for the first time, a combination – the nerve gas would paralyse their bodies … the mustard gas would drown them in their own lungs. That’s why they spat blood.\u00a0\u00bb At the time, the Iranians claimed that this terrible cocktail had been given to Saddam by the US. Washington denied this. But the Iranians were right. The lengthy negotiations which led to America’s complicity in this atrocity remain secret – Donald Rumsfeld was one of President Ronald Reagan’s point-men at this period – although Saddam undoubtedly knew every detail. But a largely unreported document, \u00ab\u00a0United States Chemical and Biological Warfare-related Dual-use exports to Iraq and their possible impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War\u00a0\u00bb, stated that prior to 1985 and afterwards, US companies had sent government-approved shipments of biological agents to Iraq. These included Bacillus anthracis, which produces anthrax, andEscherichia coli (E. coli). That Senate report concluded that: \u00ab\u00a0The United States provided the Government of Iraq with ‘dual use’ licensed materials which assisted in the development of Iraqi chemical, biological and missile-systems programs, including … chemical warfare agent production facility plant and technical drawings, chemical warfare filling equipment.\u00a0\u00bb Nor was the Pentagon unaware of the extent of Iraqi use of chemical weapons. In 1988, for example, Saddam gave his personal permission for Lt-Col Rick Francona, a US defence intelligence officer – one of 60 American officers who were secretly providing members of the Iraqi general staff with detailed information on Iranian deployments, tactical planning and bomb damage assessments – to visit the Fao peninsula after Iraqi forces had recaptured the town from the Iranians. He reported back to Washington that the Iraqis had used chemical weapons to achieve their victory. The senior defence intelligence officer at the time, Col Walter Lang, later said that the use of gas on the battlefield by the Iraqis \u00ab\u00a0was not a matter of deep strategic concern\u00a0\u00bb. I saw the results, however. On a long military hospital train back to Tehran from the battle front, I found hundreds of Iranian soldiers coughing blood and mucus from their lungs – the very carriages stank so much of gas that I had to open the windows – and their arms and faces were covered with boils. Later, new bubbles of skin appeared on top of their original boils. Many were fearfully burnt. These same gases were later used on the Kurds of Halabja. No wonder that Saddam was primarily tried in Baghdad for the slaughter of Shia villagers, not for his war crimes against Iran. We still don’t know – and with Saddam’s execution we will probably never know – the extent of US credits to Iraq, which began in 1982. The initial tranche, the sum of which was spent on the purchase of American weapons from Jordan and Kuwait, came to $300m. By 1987, Saddam was being promised $1bn in credit. By 1990, just before Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, annual trade between Iraq and the US had grown to $3.5bn a year. Pressed by Saddam’s foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, to continue US credits, James Baker then Secretary of State, but the same James Baker who has just produced a report intended to drag George Bush from the catastrophe of present- day Iraq – pushed for new guarantees worth $1bn from the US. In 1989, Britain, which had been giving its own covert military assistance to Saddam guaranteed \u00a3250m to Iraq shortly after the arrest of Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad. Bazoft, who had been investigating an explosion at a factory at Hilla which was using the very chemical components sent by the US, was later hanged. Within a month of Bazoft’s arrest William Waldegrave, then a Foreign Office minister, said: \u00ab\u00a0I doubt if there is any future market of such a scale anywhere where the UK is potentially so well-placed if we play our diplomatic hand correctly… A few more Bazofts or another bout of internal oppression would make it more difficult.\u00a0\u00bb Even more repulsive were the remarks of the then Deputy Prime Minister, Geoffrey Howe, on relaxing controls on British arms sales to Iraq. He kept this secret, he wrote, because \u00ab\u00a0it would look very cynical if, so soon after expressing outrage about the treatment of the Kurds, we adopt a more flexible approach to arms sales\u00a0\u00bb. Saddam knew, too, the secrets of the attack on the USS Stark when, on 17 May 1987, an Iraqi jet launched a missile attack on the American frigate, killing more than a sixth of the crew and almost sinking the vessel. The US accepted Saddam’s excuse that the ship was mistaken for an Iranian vessel and allowed Saddam to refuse their request to interview the Iraqi pilot. The whole truth died with Saddam Hussein in the Baghdad execution chamber yesterday. Many in Washington and London must have sighed with relief that the old man had been silenced for ever. ‘The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East’ by Robert Fisk is now available in paperback (Source: \u201cThe Independent\u201d (Grande Bretagne), le 30 d\u00e9cembre 2006)<\/font><\/strong> Lien : http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/fisk\/article2114403.ece<\/div>\n
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