|
|
|
|
|
(Publicité)
|
|
|
(Le
titre ci-dessous, normalement réservé à nos abonnés, vous est offert
exceptionnellement en accès libre pour vous faire découvrir un
des contenus du Club
Strategic Road)
06/03 - Etats-Unis – Liens entre l’Irak et Al Qaeda ?
La Maison Blanche et le 10 Downing Street répondent YES or NO,
selon les dates...
26
Septembre 2002 : Dixit George Bush =
YES : "The regime has long-standing and
continuing ties to terrorist organizations. And there are
al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq,"
26 Septembre 2002 : Dixit Ari Fleischer =
YES : "Since Operation Enduring Freedom,
we have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al Qaeda
members, including some members who have been in Baghdad.
And the relationship between Iraqi officials to those al
Qaeda members remains unclear, but we know it's there. We
have solid reporting of senior-level contacts between al
Qaeda and Iraqi officials going back a decade, and, as
Condi said, of chemical and biological agent
training"
21 Janvier 2003 : Dixit Tony Blair =
NO : "No" [link between al-Qa'ida,
Iraq and terrorist groups in Britain?]
28 Janvier 2003 : Dixit George Bush =
YES : "Secretary of State Powell will present
information and intelligence about Iraqi's legal -- Iraq's
illegal weapons programs, its attempt to hide those
weapons from inspectors, and its links to terrorist
groups"
30 Janvier 2003 : Dixit Dick Cheney =
YES : "…Saddam Hussein's pursuit of
weapons of mass destruction poses a grave danger -- not
only to his neighbors, but also to the United States. His
regime aids and protects terrorists, including members of
al Qaeda… "
31 Janvier 2003 : Dixit George Bush =
NO : "I can't make that claim" [Do you
believe that there is a link between Saddam Hussein, a
direct link, and the men who attacked on September the
11th?]
05 Février 2003 : Dixit Colin Powel =
YES : "…Al Qaida ties were forged by secret,
high-level intelligence service contacts with Al Qaida,
secret Iraqi intelligence high-level contacts with Al
Qaida…"
08 Février 2003 : Dixit George Bush =
YES : "Iraq has sent bomb-making and
document forgery experts to work with al Qaeda. Iraq has
also provided al Qaeda with chemical and biological
weapons training. And an al Qaeda operative was sent to
Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring
poisons and gases"
11 Février 2003 : Dixit Ari Fleischer =
YES : "Just as I indicated earlier, it gives
great concern about the fact that Iraq and al Qaeda are
working together".
etc...
|
|
Les sources :
Making
the Case - White House Says it Has Evidence
of
Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
ABC News 26/09/2002
« President
Bush appeared in the Rose Garden today with
members of Congress who support him on Iraq and
accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of
essentially the same crime he charged the Taliban
with: harboring al Qaeda terrorists.
"The regime has
long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist
organizations. And there are al Qaeda terrorists
inside Iraq," he said.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said "Iraq
and al Qaeda have discussed safe haven
opportunities in Iraq, reciprocal nonaggression
discussions."
And, he added, al Qaeda is looking for specific
assistance from Baghdad.
"We have what we consider to be credible
evidence that al Qaeda leaders have sought
contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire
weapons of mass destruction capabilities,"
Rumsfeld said »...
|
Excerpts
from the Press Gaggle by Ari Fleischer
September
26, 2002
White House 26 Septembre 2002
« QUESTION:
What about all this talk last night that Condi
engaged in on PBS about connections between Iraq
and al Qaeda? That's new. I mean, she went further
than you folks have ever gone before. Can you
clarify some of what she was saying? I mean, how
do we know this? Why do we suspect this?
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, we know it because some of
the information we have comes from detainees, and
in particular some very high-ranking detainees.
And --
QUESTION: Zubaydah?
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, I'm not going to indicate
exactly who. Since --
QUESTION: It doesn't matter; they're in custody…..
MR. FLEISCHER: Here's what we know, and here's --
let me try to elaborate on what Condi said, or
help you understand what Condi said.
Since Operation Enduring
Freedom, we have solid evidence of the presence in
Iraq of al Qaeda members, including some members
who have been in Baghdad. And the relationship
between Iraqi officials to those al Qaeda members
remains unclear, but we know it's there. We have
solid reporting of senior-level contacts between
al Qaeda and Iraqi officials going back a decade,
and, as Condi said, of chemical and biological
agent training.
Reports of such cooperation have increased since
1998. We know that al Qaeda have found refuge in
Iraq. There is credible reporting that al Qaeda
leaders sought contacts in Iraq to acquire
chemical and other weapons of mass destruction
capabilities.
QUESTION: But today, the President stopped just
short of saying that they were linked. Is there a
reason he did that? I mean, are they linked, in
his mind? I mean, are they -- there are --
MR. FLEISCHER: I'd have to take a look at the
verbatim of how the President said it. But we're
all saying the same thing: al Qaeda and Iraq are
too close for comfort, in terms of some of these
activities that we've talked about.
But I want to underscore, the case the President
is making about the need for regime change is not
directly tied to anything involving al Qaeda. It's
tied to Saddam Hussein's history of developing
weapons on his own. The President continues to
have fears about what Iraq's activities with al
Qaeda could lead to. But his case is much broader
than that.
QUESTION: Well, what are these links that go back
a decade? I mean, who are we talking about?
MR. FLEISCHER: These are links between al Qaeda
and Baghdad.
QUESTION: But what are the links? I mean --
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, Condi --
QUESTION: -- has Baghdad supplied al Qaeda with
training, munitions, supplies, whatever, that has
allowed them to carry out attacks against the
United States?
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, as Condi said last night -- I
cite her words -- "Iraq has provided some
training to al Qaeda in chemical weapons
development."
QUESTION: But do we know that that expertise has
ever been used in a terrorist attack against --
not only the U.S., but anybody?
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, the point is to make certain
that it's not. Why is Iraq providing training to
terrorists that could put anybody at risk? »
|
The
Sketch: Blair astonishes onlookers with a frank
answer
to Parliament's greybeards
The Independant 22/01/2003
« A
few posed questions we ourselves would like to ask:
"Is there any link
between al-Qa'ida, Iraq and terrorist groups in
Britain?" Blair watchers were
astonished when the Prime
Minister said: "No."
Frankness and clarity are not what we associate
with Mr Blair, particularly when he is saying
"to make it absolutely clear, to be
completely frank, to be honest, to be perfectly
honest, to be blunt about it, to be completely
blunt," as he did all morning. "All I'm
doing is being open with people," he repeated,
in the middle of a deft evasion.
"So, the US government knows of no link,
either?" Alan Williams went on.
Hang on, let's not go that far. There are people
in Iraq that have links. Without suggesting there
are links with the regime – though there might
be – it can't be said there aren't no people
without links, the Prime Minister told us
absolutely bluntly. "I've said what I've said,
and I don't think I can add to it." »
|
President
Delivers "State of the Union"
White House 28/01/2003
« The
world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm.
America will not accept a serious and mounting
threat to our country, and our friends and our
allies. The United States will ask the U.N.
Security Council to convene on February the 5th to
consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of
the world. Secretary of
State Powell will present information and
intelligence about Iraqi's legal -- Iraq's illegal
weapons programs, its attempt to hide those
weapons from inspectors, and its links to
terrorist groups »
|
Remarks
by the Vice President at the 30th Annual
Conservative
Political Action Conference
White House 30/01/2003
«…Saddam
Hussein's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction
poses a grave danger -- not only to his neighbors,
but also to the United States. His regime aids and
protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda… »
|
President Bush Meets with Prime Minister Blair
White House 31/01/2003
« Do
you believe that there is a link between Saddam
Hussein, a direct link, and the men who attacked
on September the 11th?
THE PRESIDENT: I can't make that claim »
|
U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses the U.N.
Security
Council
White House 05/02/2003
« But
what I want to bring to your attention today is
the potentially much more sinister nexus between
Iraq and the Al Qaida terrorist network, a nexus
that combines classic terrorist organizations and
modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbors a
deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab
Al-Zarqawi, an associated in collaborator of Osama
bin Laden and his Al Qaida lieutenants. ..
…Iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with
Al Qaida. These denials are simply not credible.
Last year an Al Qaida associate bragged that the
situation in Iraq was, quote, ``good,'' that
Baghdad could be transited quickly…
… We are not surprised that Iraq is harboring
Zarqawi and his subordinates. This understanding
builds on decades long experience with respect to
ties between Iraq and Al Qaida...
… Going back to the early and mid-1990s, when
bin Laden was based in Sudan, an Al Qaida source
tells us that Saddam and bin Laden reached an
understanding that Al Qaida would no longer
support activities against Baghdad. Early Al
Qaida ties were forged by secret, high-level
intelligence service contacts with Al Qaida,
secret Iraqi intelligence high-level contacts with
Al Qaida…
We know members of both organizations met
repeatedly and have met at least eight times at
very senior levels since the early 1990s. In 1996,
a foreign security service tells us, that bin
Laden met with a senior Iraqi intelligence
official in Khartoum, and later met the director
of the Iraqi intelligence service.
Saddam became more interested as he saw Al Qaida's
appalling attacks. A detained Al Qaida member
tells us that Saddam was more willing to assist Al
Qaida after the 1998 bombings of our embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania. Saddam was also impressed by
Al Qaida's attacks on the USS Cole in Yemen in
October 2000.
Iraqis continued to visit bin Laden in his new
home in Afghanistan. A senior defector, one of
Saddam's former intelligence chiefs in Europe,
says Saddam sent his agents to Afghanistan
sometime in the mid-1990s to provide training to
Al Qaida members on document forgery.
From the late 1990s until 2001, the Iraqi embassy
in Pakistan played the role of liaison to the Al
Qaida organization.
Some believe, some claim these contacts do not
amount to much. They say Saddam Hussein's secular
tyranny and Al Qaida's religious tyranny do not
mix. I am not comforted by this thought. Ambition
and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and Al Qaida
together, enough so Al Qaida could learn how to
build more sophisticated bombs and learn how to
forge documents, and enough so that Al Qaida could
turn to Iraq for help in acquiring expertise on
weapons of mass destruction.
And the record of Saddam Hussein's cooperation
with other Islamist terrorist organizations is
clear. Hamas, for example, opened an office in
Baghdad in 1999, and Iraq has hosted conferences
attended by Palestine Islamic Jihad. These groups
are at the forefront of sponsoring suicide attacks
against Israel.
Al Qaida continues to have a deep interest in
acquiring weapons of mass destruction. As with the
story of Zarqawi and his network, I can trace the
story of a senior terrorist operative telling how
Iraq provided training in these weapons to Al
Qaida.
Fortunately, this operative is now detained, and
he has told his story. I will relate it to you now
as he, himself, described it.
This senior Al Qaida terrorist was responsible for
one of Al Qaida's training camps in Afghanistan.
POWELL: His information comes first-hand from his
personal involvement at senior levels of Al Qaida.
He says bin Laden and his top deputy in
Afghanistan, deceased Al Qaida leader Muhammad
Atif (ph), did not believe that Al Qaida labs in
Afghanistan were capable enough to manufacture
these chemical or biological agents. They needed
to go somewhere else. They had to look outside of
Afghanistan for help. Where did they go? Where did
they look? They went to Iraq.
The support that (inaudible) describes included
Iraq offering chemical or biological weapons
training for two Al Qaida associates beginning in
December 2000. He says that a militant known as
Abu Abdula Al-Iraqi (ph) had been sent to Iraq
several times between 1997 and 2000 for help in
acquiring poisons and gases. Abdula Al-Iraqi (ph)
characterized the relationship he forged with
Iraqi officials as successful. .. »
|
President's
Radio Address
White House 08/02/2003
« One
of the greatest dangers we face is that weapons of
mass destruction might be passed to terrorists who
would not hesitate to use those weapons. Saddam
Hussein has longstanding, direct and continuing
ties to terrorist networks. Senior members of
Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda have met at least
eight times since the early 1990s. Iraq
has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts
to work with al Qaeda. Iraq has also provided al
Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons
training. And an al Qaeda operative was sent to
Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in
acquiring poisons and gases.
We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist
network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist
planner. This network runs a poison and explosive
training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its
leaders are known to be in Baghdad »
|
Press
Briefing by Ari Fleischer
White House 11/02/2003
"Q
Yes, on that same point, on the bin Laden tape, if
I remember correctly, Secretary Powell said --
made a reference to the fact that the tape,
according to his information, was going to say
from this person who purports to be bin Laden that
he is in partnership with Iraq. If, indeed, that
is the phrase that this individual uses, what does
the U.S. make of such a statement? And how is that
likely to play into the U.N. debate?
MR. FLEISCHER: Just as I
indicated earlier, it gives great concern about
the fact that Iraq and al Qaeda are working
together.
Q You already had that concern. This would seem to
confirm, if, indeed, this person is bin Laden,
would seem to confirm what the administration has
been claiming.
MR. FLEISCHER: That's correct. I think when
Secretary Powell went to New York and talked about
the evidence we have of ties between Iraq and al
Qaeda, he did so on the basis of knowledge, on the
basis of fact. And he would not have said it if he
didn't mean it and if the United States government
and others around the world didn't have cause to
know. And so what the Secretary has alluded to
this morning gives further proof of the concerns
that we have about Iraq and al Qaeda linking up"
|
|
|
Nous
vous proposons les liens ci-dessus pour votre recherche et
ces liens ne sauraient en aucun cas exprimer, évoquer ou refléter
une quelconque position de Strategic Road sur le
sujet. Certains de ces liens peuvent avoir une durée de vie
limitée et ne plus être accessibles au moment où ils sont
consultés. We offer this links for your
research and therefore they should not be construed as
evocating or reflecting any position of Strategic Road. Some
links can have a limited lifetime and may not be accessed
anymore where you'll click them.
|
Contactez-nous
si vous désirez acquérir une licence vous
autorisant à effectuer une copie de cette page sur votre DD ou
Intranet
|
+Voyages,
Détente...
+Outils,
Services...
Nos
sélections de logiciels
(veille, recherche,
analyse, sécurité)
Parmi
les
logiciels sélectionnés par Strategic-Road.com :
Auslogics
Emergency Recovery
|
|
Lost an important file or document? Emergency Recovery
will save you from panic! Don't let months or years of
your work disappear with deleted documents, pictures and
other important files. You can recover documents, music,
photos, software programs and any other files with ER.
You can also restore files damaged by viruses or spyware.
Most digital cameras, camcorders and memory cards are
supported. ER allows you to search and preview deleted
files in a simple and intuitive way. It is just a click
of the mouse to preview documents, music, pictures or
video files. Emergency Recovery is one of the most
reliable recovery products on the market, which restores
most of the files as compared to other products. Did you
know that anyone can restore pictures that you thought
were safely removed from your digital camera? Or
undelete documents even after you empty the
"Recycle Bin" on your desktop? ER’s
additional utilities will safely remove documents and
pictures by electronically shredding them so that they
cannot be restored by any undelete program
Essayer
/ Acheter
|
|
|
Pas
encore abonné
au Club Strategic-Road ?
Découvrez les services
réservés aux abonnés
Cliquez
vite ici
|
|
|
Prospective
La montée des périls
Points
chauds
Irak
Afghanistan Pakistan
Zimbabwe
Georgie Liban
Algérie
Iran Soudan Somalie
Mauritanie
Sri
Lanka Israel & Territoires
Indonésie Colombie Yemen
Niger Mali
Tchad Kenya
Congo DR Maroc Birmanie ...
|
L'actualité presse & web
Internationale
International
Française
French
par thème
by topic
par pays by
country
par secteur
by
sector
L'actualité
en vidéo
new
Internationale
International
(Afrique
Amériques
Asie-Pacifique
Europe
Moyen-Orient)
Campagne
USA 2008
Economique
Business
(Prix
du pétrole Récession
US
Science & Technologie
(Environnement
Climat)
Les blogs de nos experts
Risque-Pays.info
- JPMiginiac
F Bordonaro
Plus
de contenus dans l'actualité
Strategic-Road.com
collecte et sélectionne en
permanence les informations et analyses essentielles aux voyageurs, expatriés, entreprises et organisations présentes à
l'international.
Accédez
à notre veille quotidienne, par pays, par zone géostratégique et par thème, sur les
informations et analyses politiques, sécuritaires, sanitaires,
climatiques...
Réservé
aux abonnés
du Club
Strategic Road
Vous
gagnerez un temps considérable dans votre suivi des évènements
pouvant affecter vos risques internationaux
(activités, investissements, marchés...)
|
Nos
dispositifs spéciaux
Dispositif spécial
de veille
sur le conflit en Georgie
Dispositif spécial de veille sur l'Iran
Réservé
aux abonnés
du Club
Strategic Road
Nos
autres services
Recherche,
veille & monitoring
de sources d'information spécifiques
Information
search and watch services
Vous
serez informé en temps réel des évènements pouvant affecter vos
risques spécifiques.
Analyses
prospectives Risque Pays
Country
Risk forward-looking Analysis
Vous
disposerez des analyses des meilleurs experts sur la prospective de
vos risques spécifiques.
|
Aussi
dans Strategic-Road.com
Nos
sélections de Sources Ouvertes
Spécial
Finance
Nos
Dossiers
spéciaux
Campagne
USA 2008
Corruption
& criminalité économique
Bribery
& economic crime
Réchauffement
climatique
Global
warming
Autres dossiers,
more...
et
nos dossiers d'information pays
and
our country information topics
(actualité en continu, information générale,
politique, économique, institutionnelle...
tourisme, risque voyage, risque sanitaire...)
|
|
|
|
