Tornado<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLes documents indiquent de fa\u00e7on formelle que les prix des avions de combat ont \u00e9t\u00e9 artificiellement augment\u00e9s de 32% pour permettre le paiement des commissions diverses. Tout cela est d’une pratique courante mais le fait d’avoir ces indications sur des documents officiels, dans un march\u00e9 colossal dont d’autres aspects sont extr\u00eamement douteux, constitue un point capital.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tParmi les r\u00e9actions de politiciens britanniques, et \u00e0 part les no comment<\/em> suivis d’\u00e9tranges excuses de l’un ou l’autre minist\u00e8re, celles-ci : <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abNick Harvey, the Liberal Democrat defence spokesman, said yesterday: The government must now throw light on the veracity of these allegations. There is no doubt that this will only add to the growing calls for the NAO report to be published as it should have been 14 years ago. BAE refused to comment, saying: Al Yamamah is a contract between the governments of the UK and Saudi Arabia. Sir Colin also declined to comment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIan Gilmour, a Conservative minister at the time, recently confirmed bribes were common on Saudi arms deals. Lord Gilmour told BBC2’s Newsnight: You either got the business and bribed, or you didn’t bribe and didn’t get the business … If you are paying bribes to high-up people in the government, the fact that it’s illegal in Saudi law doesn’t mean much.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’aspect le plus anecdotique mais aussi le plus r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur pour les murs du temps concerne les conditions o\u00f9 ces documents ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mis en acc\u00e8s public. Il n’y a pas eu de fuites. Il y a eu une erreur bureaucratique, qui a fait archiver ces documents le 8 mai, puis leur d\u00e9couverte et leur exploitation publique, avec mise en ligne sous l’\u00e9gide de groupes d’adversaires du commerce de l’armement. Les documents ont \u00e9t\u00e9 retir\u00e9s des archives mais ils sont accessibles sur divers sites (dont celui du Guardian<\/em>, comme on le voit ci-dessus).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abMr Gilby, the researcher from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade who discovered<\/em> [the documents], said yesterday: I was astonished when I saw the Chandler telegram. This information has been withheld by every single British government department, including the National Audit Office, for more than two decades.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbLast night, the DTI said : The files were placed in the National Archive by mistake. Successive governments have regarded the Al Yamamah agreement to be confidential. The files have now been removed. The MoD said : We regret the fact that this material has been made public. We attach great importance to the confidentiality of the government to government Al Yamamah agreement with Saudi Arabia, and in order to protect that confidentiality we are not commenting on these papers.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 28 octobre 2006 \u00e0 05H31<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Une erreur du Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) britannique fait et va faire grand bruit m\u00eame si avec une certaine discr\u00e9tion au Royaume-Uni. La bureaucratie de ce minist\u00e8re a archiv\u00e9 aux National Archives, le 8 mai, plusieurs documents class\u00e9s confidentiels qui r\u00e9v\u00e8lent certains dessous du gigantesque march\u00e9 dit Al Yamamah sign\u00e9 en 1985 entre… <\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6058,2820,6059,3174,5291,3129,4364],"class_list":["post-68140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-coruption","tag-jordan","tag-sultan","tag-thatcher","tag-tornado","tag-typhoon","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68140","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=68140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}