Un article du site RAW Story<\/em> en date du 15 juin<\/a> rapporte que de nouvelles rumeurs et analyses font envisager qu’une attaque US contre l’Iran pourrait tout de m\u00eame avoir lieu. Ces analyses s’appuient notamment sur un fait qui paraîtrait somme toute comme assez anecdotique, qui est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme ne l’\u00e9tant pas du tout, qui l’est peut-\u00eatre finalement mais qui n’emp\u00eache pas, — qui sait, — un fond de v\u00e9rit\u00e9…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Il s’agit d’un d\u00e9placement en Italie de Michael Ledeen, l’une des figures les plus controvers\u00e9es et les plus furieuses des n\u00e9o-conservateurs US, et notamment un avocat persistant d’une intervention arm\u00e9e contre l’Iran. Voici comment RAW Story<\/em> pr\u00e9sente cette affaire :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n « A recent trip by Michael Ledeen to Rome has raised red flags among those concerned about a potential war with Iran. Some believe that Ledeen — a long-time advocate of Iranian regime change — was involved in the Niger forgeries scandal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » In late 2001, Ledeen, mid-east expert Harold Rhode and Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin (who later pleaded guilty to passing classified information to a Washington pro-Israel lobbying group) traveled to Rome to meet with Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar and various Italian, Iranian, and Egyptian intelligence agents. Not long after, documents falsely purporting that Iraq had attempted to buy yellowcake uranium surfaced in the international intelligence community, ending up at an Italian magazine, Panorama, for which Ledeen wrote periodic articles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » Ghorbanifar and Ledeen were directly involved in the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, which implicated then-President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George H. W. Bush and the highest ranking members of the Reagan administration in the illegal sales of weapons to Iran.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » Ledeen’s recent visit to Rome and meeting with Ghorbanifar have created new concern that something is developing with regard to US plans for Iran. Ledeen, however, denies that his visit to Italy was anything other than a personal trip with his wife Barbara.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » \u00ab\u00a0I did not ‘go to Rome.’ I went to Naples to see the San Gennaro celebration and the opening of the Fontanelle cemetery after more than twenty years of closure,\u00a0\u00bb Ledeen wrote in an email to RAW STORY. \u00ab\u00a0You’ll be able to read descriptions in my forthcoming book, Virgil’s Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles,\u00a0\u00bb he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » Ledeen, who has spent the last year working on a book about Naples, confirmed traveling to Rome as part of a visit to meet with friends. When asked if he had met with Ghorbanifar while in Rome, Ledeen confirmed the allegation by intelligence sources, but said that this visit was of a personal nature, unlike his previous visit.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » \u00ab\u00a0We visited various friends in Rome and Florence,\u00a0\u00bb Ledeen said. \u00ab\u00a0[Ghorbanifar] is a friend of mine, and so, as it has been for more than twenty years, I talk to him from time to time and I meet with him when our schedules intersect,\u00a0\u00bb Ledeen added.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » Ledeen characterized the meeting as part of a \u00ab\u00a0normal friendship.\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0I would say on average I see him twice a year for a day or half a day,\u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00ab\u00a0And it’s not just him, it’s sometimes his wife, his daughter… imagine! A normal friendship.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Effectivement, le d\u00e9placement de Ledeen a \u00e9t\u00e9 consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un signal d’alarme. Il est fort possible que cela ne soit pas pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment justifi\u00e9. Ledeen est un sp\u00e9cialiste de l’Italie, dans tous les sens du mot, y compris le plus innocent (c’est un sp\u00e9cialiste de Machiavel et de la Renaissance). L’explication de son voyage et de ses liens d’amiti\u00e9 avec Ghorbanifar a aussi une incontestable r\u00e9alit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A c\u00f4t\u00e9 de cela, — et assez curieusement, — il pourrait y avoir effectivement de la part de Ledeen une pression pour relancer une hostilit\u00e9 radicale contre l’OTAN. Ledeen a \u00e9t\u00e9 un des rares commentateurs \u00e0 chercher \u00e0 lier directement Zarqaoui, — r\u00e9cemment abattu par les forces irako-US, — et le r\u00e9gime de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran, au contraire de la plupart des analyses ind\u00e9pendantes qui font de Zarqaoui un adversaire radical des Chiites et des Iraniens. Pour Ledeen, c’est effectivement un argument pour relancer une pression en faveur d’une attaque contre l’Iran. On peut voir d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e la th\u00e8se des liens Zarqaoui-Iran dans un article qu’il publie le 9 juin<\/a> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n « Despite his intonations against the Shiites, and his manifest efforts to promote civil war in Iraq, Zarqawi was happy to work with the radical Shiite regime in Tehran, and they were happy to work with him. It is quite wrong to view him as a leader of one faction in a religious war; his promotion of religious conflict was simply a tactic designed to destabilize Iraq and drive out the Coalition. He and his Iranian backers\/masters were desperate to promote all manner of internal Iraqi conflict: Kurds against Arabs, Turkamen against Kurds, anything that worked. It’s The Godfather all over again: the terror masters put aside their differences, sat down around the table, and made a war plan in which Sunni and Shia, Syrian and Saudi, Iranian and Iraqi cooperated against their common satanic enemy, the United States.<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Apr\u00e8s cette d\u00e9monstration et une longue r\u00e9flexion sur \u00ab\u00a0la plus grande op\u00e9ration contre-terroriste de tous les temps\u00a0\u00bb que repr\u00e9sente la liquidation de Zarqaoui, Ledeen termine par une exhortation \u00e0 liquider le r\u00e9gime iranien.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n « The intelligence community was savaged after 9\/11 for its failure to connect the dots, and it would be truly embarrassing, and very dangerous, to leave the Iranian dot out there apart from the rest of the network we have uncovered and shattered. A week ago Director of National Intelligence Negroponte gave a very interesting interview to the BBC in which he reiterated what everybody knows: \u00ab\u00a0(the Iranians) are the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » So how come we’re not going after them?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » And for those who think the recent \u00ab\u00a0we’ll-talk-if-you-stop-enrichment\u00a0\u00bb gambit was some sort of master diplomatic stroke, consider this: it turns out that the Iranians have actually increased their enrichment program.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » There is no escape from the necessity of bringing down the mullahcracy, for they will keep killing our people and our friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » Faster, please.<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n Mis en ligne le 18 juin 2006 \u00e0 14H28<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Les us et coutumes de Michael Ledeen Un article du site RAW Story en date du 15 juin rapporte que de nouvelles rumeurs et analyses font envisager qu’une attaque US contre l’Iran pourrait tout de m\u00eame avoir lieu. 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