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Les USA et les Saoud au secours de Daech et Al Qaeda au Yémen - 27 mars 2015 - Bahar Kimyongur

jeudi 17 mars 2016, par anonyme (Date de rédaction antérieure : 27 mars 2015).

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Par Bahar Kimyongur, le 26 mars 2015

Dans le monde arabe et musulman, rien de nouveau. On se bat entre Arabes et musulmans au plus grand bonheur de leurs ennemis américains et israéliens. Les USA et les Saoud sont à l’offensive dans tous les pays qui leur résistent principalement en Syrie, en Irak et au Yémen.

Les terroristes du Front al Nosra lié à Al Qaeda attaquent la ville d’‪‎Idlib‬ avec des missiles TOW livrés par les USA.

En Syrie, les forces saoudiennes attaquent sur 2 fronts : le Nord et le Sud.

Au Nord, la ville loyaliste et majoritairement sunnite d’Idlib est encerclée par des milices liées à Al Qaeda. Ces milices utilisent des armes américaines notamment des missiles TOW pour venir à bout de la résistance de l’armée syrienne et des forces populaires qui défendent leur ville et leurs terres. L’un des commandants Al Qaeda de l’opération d’Idleb est un cheikh saoudien dénommé Abdallah al Mouhaisni.

Au Sud, c’est la ville antique de Bosra al Cham au cœur de laquelle trône un amphithéâtre romain, qui vient de tomber aux mains d’une coalition de groupes djihadistes pilotés par le Front al Nosra, filière d’Al Qaeda en Syrie.

Alors que le commandement US se gargarise de discours antiterroristes, aucun avion de l’Axe US/UE/CCG (*) n’a été aperçu dans le ciel syrien au-dessus d’Idleb ou de Bosra al Cham.

Comme le révèle la dépêche Reuters du 23 mars dernier signée Tom Perry, les armées occidentales ont même intensifié leurs livraisons d’armes à Al Qaeda sur le Front Sud. C’est par la frontière jordano-syrienne que ces armes, pour la plupart offertes par l’Arabie saoudite, le plus grand importateurs d’armes au monde, parviennent à la coalition anti-Assad du Front Sud. Israël n’est pas en reste puisque des sources officielles reconnaissent désormais fournir de l’aide aux forces anti-Assad dont Al Qaeda dans le Mont Bental sur le plateau du Golan (Yaroslav Trofimov, Wall Street Journal, 12 mars 2015).

Ainsi donc, nos belles âmes occidentales éprises d’art et de raffinement, celles-là même qui se lamentent des destructions des musées et du patrimoine de l’Orient par les djihadistes de Daech ont offert à al Qaeda, Bosra al Cham, une ville antique classée au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO.

En Irak, les USA sentent qu’ils perdent pied dans la résistance contre Daech. Forces kurdes, chiites et sunnites appuyées par le voisin et allié iranien ont réussi à former une alliance antiterroriste qui porte ses fruits.

Plusieurs villes et villages des provinces de Salaheddine et Anbar ont ainsi pu être libérés de la présence terroriste. Craignant cette unité supra-ethnique et supra-confessionnelle, l’aviation US a bombardé cette nuit les positions de Daech dans la ville de Tikrit par crainte de perdre pied dans ce pays devenu allié de l’Iran.

Cette intervention US à Tikrit a été conspuée par les milices chiites qui rejettent toute forme d’alliance avec Washington.

Certains miliciens liés à l’Armée du Mahdi de Moqtada Sadr et aux Brigades du Hezbollah irakien ont même décidé de se retirer des combats.

Sur le front de Tikrit, il y a donc non pas assistance comme le laissent entendre de nombreux analystes mainstream mais concurrence entre l’Iran et les USA, un peu comme celle qui exista entre l’Armée soviétique et les troupes du général Patton face à l’Empire hitlérien.

Par hostilité atavique envers l’Iran, les Saoud ont longtemps encouragé Daech. Aujourd’hui, la dynastie wahhabite cultive l’attentisme avec une crainte grandissante face au prestige accumulé par Téhéran parmi les populations de Syrie et d’Irak vivant sous le joug de Daech.

C’est finalement au Yémen, leur arrière-cour, que les Saoud ont décidé de lancer leurs bombardiers contre la résistance anti-Daech.

Naguère terrain d’affrontement entre marxistes et panarabes d’une part et forces réactionnaires pro-Saoud d’autre part, le Yémen est aujourd’hui le théâtre d’une guerre entre les milices houthistes d’inspiration chiite d’une part.

Ces derniers jours, les milices houthistes d’Ansar Allah ont mené une avancée spectaculaire vers Aden, la grande ville du Sud du Yémen où s’est refugié le président déchu et agent soudien Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

Contrairement à ce qu’affirment les médias occidentaux, les milices houthistes ne mènent pas une politique confessionnaliste mais remplissent une mission patriotique.

Malgré leur identité confessionnelle, ils cultivent une vision panislamique et panarabe, gagnant ainsi de la sympathie d’une large frange de l’armée nationale yéménite, y compris de la Garde républicaine et de nombreuses tribus sunnites, ce qui explique leur incroyable progression.

Alors que Daech a massacré près de 200 chiites dans une quadruple attaque kamikaze visant les mosquées vendredi dernier, alors qu’Al Qaeda dans la Péninsule arabique (AQPA) massacre à tour de bras, cette nuit, le régime wahhabite a lancé une opération militaire aérienne contre les forces rebelles du Yémen.

Ce n’est pas le ministre saoudien de la défense, le prince Mohammed Bin Salman ou le Roi d’Arabie saoudite Salman Ben Abdel Aziz qui a annoncé l’entrée en guerre de son pays contre la souveraineté du Yémen mais l’ambassadeur saoudien à Washington. Le scénario est digne d’un film arabe de série B.

Pour l’heure, les médias arabes, notamment Al Mayadeen, parlent d’une vingtaine de civils yéménites massacrés par les bombardements saoudiens.

Du temps du héros tiers-mondiste égyptien Jamal Abdel Nasser, le régime collabo et décadent des Saoud combattait les forces de gauche arabes (marxistes, nationalistes, panarabes) avec l’appui US.

Après avoir détruit les derniers vestiges du socialisme arabe, les Saoud s’en prennent à présent aux seules forces de résistance panarabes encore debout, du Hezbollah libanais à Ansar Allah yéménite en passant par le Baas syrien.

Dans un article alarmiste paru dans le Washington Post le 23 novembre 2012, la secrétaire d’Etat US de l’ère Bush Condoleezza Rice qualifiait l’Iran de « Karl Marx d’aujourd’hui ».

Si l’Iran équivaut à Marx comme l’affirme la fauconne de l’impérialisme US, le régime des Saoud, lui, incarne depuis sa création en 1744 la contre-révolution et la tyrannie d’Adolphe Tiers, le fossoyeur de la Commune de Paris.

(*) CCG : Conseil de coopération du Golfe. Alliance regroupant les 6 pétromonarchies du Golfe.

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  • World | Mon Mar 23, 2015 2:23pm EDT

    South Syrian rebels say Assad foes are supplying more arms

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2015…

    BEIRUT | By Tom Perry

    (Reuters) - Mainstream rebels in southern Syria say foreign states have stepped up weapons supplies to them since Damascus launched an offensive early last month to regain the frontier zone near Jordan and Israel.

    This suggests President Bashar al-Assad’s Arab and Western enemies want to help preserve the last major foothold of what they call the moderate opposition, although the rebels say the equipment still falls short of their needs.

    The Syrian army backed by allied militia including the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah are trying to regain territory which is vitally important to Assad and his allies in Iran ; both attach great importance to the struggle with Israel, which borders Syria to the southwest.

    At first they advanced rapidly through the southwestern corner of Syria. State TV broadcast from several villages captured from the insurgents, who are among the last remnants of the mainstream rebellion against Assad that has been crushed elsewhere by government forces or jihadist groups such as Islamic State and the Nusra Front, a wing of al Qaeda.

    But the push then appeared to slow. Three rebel officials said foreign states had increased their help in response to the advance. "We are asking for more," said Saber Safar, a colonel who defected from the Syrian army and now heads a group called "The First Army", part of "The Southern Front" rebel alliance. He spoke via Skype from inside Syria.

    The rebels declined to give details, or say which states had supplied the weapons. The Southern Front groups have previously received military aid via Jordan, a staunch U.S. ally.

    Some of the southern rebel groups have received U.S.-made anti-tank weapons, though they have long described the quantities as small. In addition to the United States, Assad’s foreign opponents include Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

    A Syrian military source said the army was working according to a new plan "focused on directing concentrated blows against some of the positions of the terrorist gangs". "These strikes are achieving excellent results," the source said.

    Mainstream rebels in northern Syria suffered their most recent setback with the collapse of the Hazzm movement, a U.S.-backed group that dissolved itself earlier this month after coming under attack from the Nusra Front.

    The weakness of the mainstream groups is a big complication for U.S. planners who want to arm and train rebels to fight Islamic State. The Nusra Front is also active in the south but has avoided conflict with the mainstream groups there.

    MISSILE ATTACKS FROM HILLS

    As the southern offensive got underway, the rebels urged their foreign backers to provide more support, promising to confront the advance with guerrilla tactics.

    "We are working on the principle of hit and run, not on the basis of a battle between two armies," said Safar.

    Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that monitors the war, said the government side had lost momentum. "After the thrust at the start of the attack, the progress has become very slow," he said.

    Iranian advisers are on the ground, a senior Middle Eastern official has said. Damascus says the rebels have also received support from Israel.

    "There has clearly been substantial investment by the regime and its backers in this offensive, so it’s notable that the opposition has been able to slow their progress," said Noah Bonsey, a senior analyst with International Crisis Group. "The fight for key ground south of Damascus will continue, however, and much is at stake for both sides and their backers."

    Assad’s foreign opponents could yet use the Southern Front to apply the kind of pressure needed to force a political compromise. Diplomatic efforts towards ending the Syrian conflict, which is in its fifth year, are getting nowhere.

    The Southern Front groups have been trying to organize themselves politically, and have drawn up a plan for a transition of power that safeguards the institutions of state.

    But they have not received the kind of weapons that would tip the battle their way, notably anti-aircraft missiles, from foreign states.

    "The response wasn’t at the required speed, or at the level of the attack the regime and are Iran are waging against us," said Abu Ghiath al-Shami, spokesman for another rebel group, Alwiyat Seif al-Sham.

    "What we are suffering from is being targeting by the regime with guided missiles from the hills they control, and the warplanes dropping barrel bombs," said Shami, also speaking via the internet.

    Assad has denied using barrel bombs - barrels filled with explosives and shrapnel.

    Nevertheless, the rebels said their forces were getting ready for a counterattack. "The fronts have been reinforced and soon we will move to attack," said Abu Ahmad al-Tadamun, who leads another group, the Sham United Front.

    (Additional reporting by Laila Bassam ; Writing by Tom Perry ; editing by David Stamp)

  • Middle East Crossroads

    Al Qaeda a Lesser Evil ? Syria War Pulls U.S., Israel Apart

    wsj.com/articles/al-qaeda-a-lesser-evil-syria-war-pulls-u-s-israel-apart-1426169708

    Mountaintop on edge of Golan Heights illustrates complexities.

    An Israeli soldier trains in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Monday. Photo : Associated Press (Clic to enlarge)

    By Yaroslav Trofimov Updated March 12, 2015 12:47 p.m. ET

    MOUNT BENTAL, Golan Heights—This mountaintop on the edge of the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights offers a unique vantage point into how the complexities of the Syrian war raging in the plains below are increasingly straining Israel’s ties with the U.S.

    To the south of this overlook, from which United Nations and Israeli officers observe the fighting, are the positions of the Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al Qaeda that the U.S. has targeted with airstrikes.

    Nusra Front, however, hasn’t bothered Israel since seizing the border area last summer—and some of its severely wounded fighters are regularly taken across the frontier fence to receive treatment in Israeli hospitals.

    To the north of Mount Bental are the positions of the Syrian government forces and the pro-Iranian Shiite militias such as Hezbollah, along with Iranian advisers. Iran and these militias are indirectly allied with Washington in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq. But here in the Golan, they have been the target of a recent Israeli airstrike. Israel in recent months also shot down a Syrian warplane and attacked weapons convoys heading through Syria to Hezbollah.

    It would be a stretch to say that the U.S. and Israel are backing different sides in this war. But there is clearly a growing divergence in U.S. and Israeli approaches over who represents the biggest danger—and who should be seen, if not as an ally, at least as a lesser evil in the regional crisis sparked by the dual implosion of Syria and Iraq.

    This gap isn’t just with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose recent public clash with President Barack Obama over the White House’s outreach to Iran triggered the worst crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations in decades.

    “There is no doubt that Hezbollah and Iran are the major threat to Israel, much more than the radical Sunni Islamists, who are also an enemy,” said Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israel’s military intelligence who is slated to become minister of defense should the center-left Zionist Union, led by Isaac Herzog, unseat Mr. Netanyahu in Tuesday’s elections.

    “Those Sunni elements who control some two-thirds to 90% of the border on the Golan aren’t attacking Israel. This gives you some basis to think that they understand who is their real enemy—maybe it isn’t Israel,” Mr. Yadlin added during an interview.

    Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war. The frontier has remained mostly peaceful despite Nusra’s presence within a few yards of Israeli outposts, and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly highlighted that fact to depict the rebels seeking the end of his brutal rule as Zionist stooges.

    “Some in Syria joke : “How can you say that al Qaeda doesn’t have an air force ? They have the Israeli air force,” Mr. Assad said in a January interview with Foreign Affairs magazine. “They are supporting the rebels in Syria. It is very clear.”

    Israeli officials deny this, saying they don’t interfere in the Syrian conflict and have no contact with the rebels except to provide humanitarian assistance to wounded Syrians. “There is an understanding and there is a familiarity of the forces on the ground. I wouldn’t go the extent of calling it coordination. It is extremely tactical,” an Israeli military official said.

    But the officials also stress that Israel views with mounting alarm the push southward along the frontier by regime troops and Hezbollah forces.

    Frequent explosions and the thud of shelling could be heard this week from Mount Bental, just above the ruins of the Syrian city of Quneitra. A few miles to the north, an Israeli officer was wounded on Tuesday by what the Israeli military said was sniper fire from regime-held areas. Islamic State isn’t yet present in this part of Syria—its closest strongholds are dozens of miles away.

    Israel’s border with Syria was the country’s quietest for four decades, as Mr. Assad and his father, President Hafez al-Assad, scrupulously observed the 1974 disengagement agreement. Instead, Damascus targeted Israel in Lebanon through Hezbollah, its junior ally.

    The Syrian civil war that began in 2011 and devastated the Syrian army reversed that relationship, making Mr. Assad the dependent partner in his alliance with Hezbollah and Iran.

    Hezbollah, meanwhile, is reluctant to endanger its powerful position in Lebanon by striking Israel from Lebanon itself and provoking a devastating war in response—something that explains its interest in a foothold on the Golan Heights.

    In January, Israel signaled that it wouldn’t tolerate such a scenario, launching an airstrike that killed a general of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and several senior Hezbollah officials not far from here.

    “Nusra is a unique version of al Qaeda. They manage to cooperate with non-Islamist and non-jihadi organizations in one coalition,” said retired Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former chief of staff for Israel’s defense minister. “They are totally focused on the war in Syria and aren’t focused on us. But when Hezbollah and Iran and others are pushing south, they are very much focused on us.”

    For now, parts of the Golan frontier that are controlled by Nusra and other rebels are so quiet that Israeli children are brought on school trips to sightseeing spots near the fence.

    Over the past two years, as fighting came close, some 1,500 Syrians have been allowed through that fence to seek treatment in Israel.

    One of them, a 15-year-old boy who lost his right arm and most fingers on his left hand in an explosion two months ago, was fitted with a prosthesis and underwent surgery to restore the use of his left arm at the Galilee Medical Center in the coastal Israeli city of Nahariya.

    “In school, the regime taught us that Israel and the Jews are our enemies. But they have been very good to me. It is a beautiful country,” the boy said a day before the Israeli army was due to return him to his parents in Syria.

    In his hospital room, he proudly showed off how he can use the prosthetic hand to pick up a bottle of water to an Arab-Israeli woman who had befriended him, and who had been keeping in touch with his mother in Syria via Facebook.

    Only about one-third of the Syrians treated in Israel, however, were women and children. An Israeli military official acknowledged that most of the rebels on the other side of the fence belong to Nusra but said that Israel offered medical help to anyone in need, without checking their identity.

    “We don’t ask who they are, we don’t do any screening…Once the treatment is done, we take them back to the border and they go on their way,” he said.

    Despite the momentary convergence of interests and the current quiet on the border, some Israeli officials and security analysts say they hold no illusions about Nusra and its ultimate goal of destroying Israel.

    “It is just a matter of time before some of these Syrian rebels start launching attacks against Israel,” cautioned Eyal Zisser, the dean of the faculty of humanities at Tel Aviv University and one of the country’s foremost experts on Syria. “Nusra is al Qaeda. Maybe a little bit more pragmatic, but still al Qaeda.”

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