{"id":68241,"date":"2006-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/26\/yamamah-qui-continue-a-chauffer-et-les-saoudiens-qui-parlent-meme-du-rafale\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T00:00:00","slug":"yamamah-qui-continue-a-chauffer-et-les-saoudiens-qui-parlent-meme-du-rafale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/26\/yamamah-qui-continue-a-chauffer-et-les-saoudiens-qui-parlent-meme-du-rafale\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamamah<\/em> qui continue \u00e0 chauffer et les Saoudiens qui parlent m\u00eame du Rafale<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remercions notre lecteur FrenchFrogger<\/em>, aujourd’hui sur notre ‘Forum’<\/a>, qui nous signale cet article<\/a> du Telegraph<\/em> o\u00f9 est \u00e9voqu\u00e9e pour la premi\u00e8re fois publiquement la possibilit\u00e9 que les Saoudiens transf\u00e8rent leur commande de 72 Eurofighter Typhoon<\/em> au profit des Fran\u00e7ais et de leur Rafale<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe government of Saudi Arabia is set to tear up its \u00a376bn agreement with Britain for Eurofighter Typhoons and hand the contract to France if the Serious Fraud Office opens up secret Swiss bank accounts allegedly linked to members of the Saudi royal family.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSenior British government sources last night predicted that the Saudi authorities would stand by their promise to cancel the recently signed order for 72 Eurofighter Typhoons if the SFO goes ahead with plans to open up potentially embarrassing bank accounts as part of its long-running investigation into allegations of bribery.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Eurofighters are being built by a European consortium including BAE Systems, Britain’s largest defence contractor. Now, Saudi Arabia is considering buying the Rafale, made by France’s national contractor Dassault. It is understood President Jacques Chirac has stepped up his lobbying of the Saudi authorities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbI think they [the Saudis] genuinely will follow through with this threat, said a government source. Chirac is waiting in the wings. They are desperate to sell the Rafale.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBut a senior defence official said the SFO is unlikely to pull back from its investigation focusing on allegations that BAE bribed Saudi defence procurement officials with millions of pounds-worth of lavish gifts including holidays in Europe and a gold Rolls-Royce in the 1990s to ensure the Saudis continued to buy from Britain under an original defence contract, Al-Yamamah.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Saudis don’t understand how they can sign a big contract with the UK Government, yet here we are, accusing them of dodgy dealings. The Government can’t simply quash the SFO investigation. It is between a rock and a hard place, he said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNous avons peu de commentaire \u00e0 ajouter et il nous importait surtout de signaler cette situation. L’\u00e9volution de l’affaire de l’enqu\u00eate Yamamah<\/em> suit son cours normal. Les diff\u00e9rents acteurs engag\u00e9s semblent particuli\u00e8rement \u00e9tanches aux arguments des autres parties, et donc r\u00e9tifs \u00e0 toute influence d\u00e9cisive. Le service SFO suit son enqu\u00eate, le gouvernement britannique ne peut l’influencer et les Saoudiens n’acceptent pas la perspective d’\u00eatre inqui\u00e9t\u00e9s par le SFO. La situation refl\u00e8te au moins un conflit de cultures, sinon de civilisations, entre SFO et Saoudiens, avec le gouvernement Blair au milieu, entre marteau et enclume, qui pr\u00e9f\u00e9rerait partir en vacances.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 26 novembre 2006 \u00e0 16H29<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remercions notre lecteur FrenchFrogger, aujourd’hui sur notre ‘Forum’, qui nous signale cet article du Telegraph o\u00f9 est \u00e9voqu\u00e9e pour la premi\u00e8re fois publiquement la possibilit\u00e9 que les Saoudiens transf\u00e8rent leur commande de 72 Eurofighter Typhoon au profit des Fran\u00e7ais et de leur Rafale. \u00abThe government of Saudi Arabia is set to tear up its \u00a376bn… <\/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":[3259,3858,4739,3219,3129,4364],"class_list":["post-68241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-arabie","tag-corruption","tag-enquete","tag-rafale","tag-typhoon","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68241","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=68241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}