aujourd’hui<\/a> un article reprenant plusieurs r\u00e9cits d’op\u00e9rations en cours en Afghanistan. Ces r\u00e9cits font \u00e9videmment penser qu’une censure extr\u00eamement stricte r\u00e8gne sur les pertes r\u00e9elles subies dans cette guerre. Et plus que jamais ces questions destin\u00e9es \u00e0 nous hanter longtemps : que sont donc aller faire l\u00e0-bas les Occidentaux, essentiellement les Europ\u00e9ens, pour cr\u00e9er ce d\u00e9sordre \u00e9pouvantable qui est en train de se transformer en un conflit cruel et terrible, du genre dont jamais aucun \u00e9tranger n’est sorti vainqueur en Afghanistan? Comment d\u00e9finir, sinon en termes extr\u00eames et furieux, la responsabilit\u00e9 de ces hommes politiques qui ont engag\u00e9 les arm\u00e9es de leurs pays dans un conflit aussi cruel et incertain?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tQuelques extraits :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abWe headed off to what can only be described as the Wild West. Those are the words, not of a beleaguered British squaddie, but of a Canadian officer in a unit sent to help rescue our troops in the lawless Afghan province of Helmand. His account, emailed to family and friends back in Canada, is the most detailed to emerge from what commanders have called the most desperate fighting British troops have seen since the Korean War.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbA British company from 3 Para had been isolated and surrounded by Taliban in… Sangin district centre, the officer relates. They had lost four soldiers and were being attacked three to five times a day. They were running out of food and were down to boiling river water. An attempt to air-drop supplies had failed, with the supplies landing in a Taliban stronghold, so the Canadians were ordered to conduct an immediate emergency resupply operation with their light armoured vehicles (LAVs).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhen we arrived in Sangin, the locals began throwing rocks and anything they could at us; this was not a friendly place, the officer reports. We pushed into the district centre, and during the last few hundred metres we began receiving mortar fire. By the time they reached the British position, the Canadian convoy had to stay overnight. We were attacked with small arms RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades] and mortars three times that night. I still can’t believe the Brits have spent over a month living there under these conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAccording to Brigadier Ed Butler, whose 16 Air Assault Brigade spearheaded the 2003 invasion of Iraq, nothing his men experienced there came close to what they have undergone in the past few weeks in Helmand. The Ministry of Defence has been accused of seeking to keep the reality from the British public by excluding journalists and television cameras from the front line. But it has learned that in the 21st century it cannot shut down all flows of information, as a stream of mobile phone videos and emails have made clear.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 1er octobre 2006 \u00e0 10H14<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les \u00e9chos \u00e9tant ce qu’ils sont, \u00e9touff\u00e9s pour les ch\u00e8res oreilles des \u00e9lecteurs (essentiellement US), la guerre en Afghanistan nous reste bien lointaine. Certains r\u00e9cits commencent pourtant \u00e0 en \u00eatre publi\u00e9s. Ils montrent l’extraordinaire intensit\u00e9 des combats, qui justifie parfaitement le jugement de certains militaires venus d’Irak selon lesquels la guerre en Afghanistan est bien… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3236,2645,4394,5955],"class_list":["post-68052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-afghanistan","tag-guerre","tag-pertes","tag-recit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}