{"id":66114,"date":"2004-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/10\/31\/ben-laden-a-choisi-sa-cible-la-psychologie-americaine\/"},"modified":"2004-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"ben-laden-a-choisi-sa-cible-la-psychologie-americaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/10\/31\/ben-laden-a-choisi-sa-cible-la-psychologie-americaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Laden a choisi sa cible : la psychologie am\u00e9ricaine<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Laden a choisi sa cible : la psychologie am\u00e9ricaine<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t31 octobre 2004 \u00ab Bush vous trompe, menace Ben Laden<\/em> \u00bb : ainsi un commentateur de EuroNews<\/em> pr\u00e9sente-t-il, le 30 octobre au matin, le message de Ben Laden. Manifestement, ce pr\u00e9sentateur, qui ne peut \u00eatre soup\u00e7onn\u00e9 de parti-pris ou de quelque attitude \u00e9labor\u00e9e de cette sorte, est emport\u00e9 par la pens\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, celle qui r\u00e8gle et emprisonne notre r\u00e9flexion. Nous avons affaire \u00e0 une \u00e9lite’ totalement sous influence, raisonnant d’une fa\u00e7on pavlovienne dans ses r\u00e9flexes initiaux : qui dit Ben Laden dit menace d’attaque En d’autres mots : Ben Laden a-t-il vraiment besoin d’attaquer ? L’hyst\u00e9rie occidentale qui sert de conduite g\u00e9n\u00e9rale \u00e0 notre r\u00e9flexion \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard, ne suffit-elle pas \u00e0 faire fonction d’attaque terroriste ? L’effet d\u00e9sir\u00e9 n’est-il pas ainsi obtenu, \u00e0 peu de frais, sans risque et sans pertes humaines ? <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa r\u00e9alit\u00e9 est que, avec son message, Ben Laden s’est montr\u00e9 nuanc\u00e9 et a pris garde, justement, \u00e0 ne pas \u00e9mettre de menace directe : \u00ab Mr. bin Laden did not explicitly threaten any new attacks in an excerpt of the videotape, first broadcast on Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite network<\/em> \u00bb, commente le New York Times apr\u00e8s avoir examin\u00e9 le message<\/a>. Le journal poursuit, mettant justement le doigt sur le fondement m\u00eame de nos r\u00e9actions de nos psychologies compl\u00e8tement exacerb\u00e9es par des ann\u00e9es de r\u00e9p\u00e9tition sans fin venue des p\u00e2les repr\u00e9sentants et dirigeants d’un univers caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 par la menace imminente :\u00ab But the appearance of the tape four days before Election Day injected Al Qaeda and Mr. bin Laden into a presidential campaign in which the threat posed by terrorism has weighed heavily.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tVoici la pr\u00e9sentation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l’intervention de Ben Laden que fait le journal new-yorkais, dans ses \u00e9ditions du 30 octobre :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The videotape of the leader of Al Qaeda was the first to surface in more than a year. In contrast to his haggard appearance in his last videotaped message televised on Sept. 10, 2003, Mr. bin Laden appeared vigorous and healthy, more than three years after the United States began the intense manhunt that he has so far evaded.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr. bin Laden did not explicitly threaten any new attacks in an excerpt of the videotape, first broadcast on Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite network. But the appearance of the tape four days before Election Day injected Al Qaeda and Mr. bin Laden into a presidential campaign in which the threat posed by terrorism has weighed heavily.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Though Mr. bin Laden’s statement referred to President Bush and Senator John Kerry by name, he said the prospect of a future terrorist attack would depend not on the outcome of the election but on concrete actions taken by the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or Al Qaeda; your security is in your own hands, Mr. bin Laden said. He added: Any state that does not mess with our security, has naturally guaranteed its own security. Gesturing emphatically at times with his hands, the Qaeda leader wore a long gray beard, traditional white robes, a golden cloak and a turban. He gazed directly into the camera as he delivered the address, which he appeared to be reading from a text behind a lectern in front of a plain brown backdrop.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Oh, American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results, he said. He added: Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you, and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tA noter, pour commenter cette intervention exceptionnelle de Ben Laden, ce commentaire du Britannique Jason Burke<\/a>, un sp\u00e9cialiste du terrorisme et de Ben Laden : \u00ab The truth is that Osama bin Laden is very good at what he does. He is one of the great propagandists up there with Himmler, Lenin, Napoleon and Louis XIV.<\/em> \u00bb (Tout de m\u00eame, Mr. Jason Burke nous aurait fait plaisir en ajoutant \u00e0 cette liste Henry VIII, les Founding Fathers<\/em>, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Rudyard Kipling et Winston Churchill, mais peut-\u00eatre ne sied-il pas de m\u00ealer des Anglo-Saxons \u00e0 des activit\u00e9s d\u00e9nomm\u00e9es propagande ?)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl semble donc que l’on s’accorde en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral sur une chose : le brio de Ben Laden dans le maniement de l’arme m\u00e9diatique, ou \u00ab virtual terrorism<\/em> \u00bb comme le d\u00e9signe le site Whiskey Bar\/Billmon.org<\/a>. Savoir qui Ben Laden a favoris\u00e9 dans la course \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence, s’il a favoris\u00e9 quelqu’un ? Certains jugent que c’est GW et les r\u00e9publicains<\/a> qui en profitent, au vu de certains sondages. Aujourd’hui, les sondages ne nous disent rien de pr\u00e9cis mais il est vrai qu’on pencherait plut\u00f4t pour quelque chose qui favorise Bush.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMais non, l’essentiel est bien que Ben Laden a choisi sa cible, c’est-\u00e0-dire l’acteur le plus int\u00e9ressant \u00e0 influencer sur la sc\u00e8ne am\u00e9ricaine aujourd’hui, et qu’il a trouv\u00e9 : le peuple am\u00e9ricain. Ben Laden a compris que la faiblesse de l’Am\u00e9rique, sa fragilit\u00e9 infinie, c’est l’extraordinaire sens de l’ins\u00e9curit\u00e9, toujours proche de l’hyst\u00e9rie ou\/et de la panique, du peuple am\u00e9ricain. C’est l\u00e0-dessus qu’il appuie, ne doutant pas que cette hyst\u00e9rie ou cette panique se r\u00e9percutera dans les urnes et continuera \u00e0 affaiblir le syst\u00e8me d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. Que cela favorise Bush, c’est possible ; cela peut aussi rendre encore plus inextricable une situation d’\u00e9galit\u00e9 conduisant \u00e0 des contestations et \u00e0 un blocage de l’\u00e9lection apr\u00e8s le vote, une sorte de super-2000 dans un climat de peur panique, avec diverses cons\u00e9quences bien concr\u00e8tes, comme par exemple une d\u00e9pression \u00e0 Wall Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tFinalement, le meilleur commentaire de l’offensive Ben Laden que nous ayons trouv\u00e9 est celui, d\u00e9j\u00e0 mentionn\u00e9, du site Whiskey Bar\/Billmon.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Osama’s Endorsement<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Right on time, too four days before the election. (The Madrid bombing was three days before.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Osama bin Laden, reading a statement to the American people in a new videotape aired Friday, directly admitted for the first time that he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks and said \u00a0\u00bbthe best way to avoid another Manhattan\u00a0\u00bb was to stop threatening Muslims’ security… <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tHe accused President Bush of \u00a0\u00bbmisleading\u00a0\u00bb the American people since the 2001 suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic candidate John) Kerry or Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands, bin Laden said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb If anyone had any doubts about which candidate al-Qaeda prefers in this election, I think you can put them to rest now. This tape coming hard on the heels of Azzam the American is obviously designed to have U.S. voters as obsessively worried about the terrorist threat as possible when they go into the voting booth next Tuesday. Osama, like Bush, understands the electoral value of zapping the deeper reptilian centers of the brain. Call it hypothalamus politics. Or, as one member of the media idiot chorus cheerfully told CNN a few days ago: Fear works.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb In a way, this move is even smarter than an actual terrorist attack on American soil which al-Qaeda might not have been able to pull off anyway. A real attack would have been an unpredictable gamble. It might have given Bush a huge boost, but it’s at least conceivable it would have had the opposite effect, by underscoring the hollowness of the endlessly repeated Republican claim that our cowboy-in-chief has made us all safer.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Osama’s video bomb, on the other hand, is a brilliant example of virtual terrorism. It’s perfectly designed to keep the media tape loop spinning from now until next Tuesday, with minimal risk of a backlash. It not only wipes the missing explosives story off the map (that is, until they do the same to some unsuspecting Americans) it also allows the GOP to turn every remaining campaign event into a bin Laden hate rally. It is, in short, the definitive October surprise.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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