{"id":68259,"date":"2006-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/01\/yamamah-leurofighter-et-lultimatum-des-princes\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T00:00:00","slug":"yamamah-leurofighter-et-lultimatum-des-princes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/01\/yamamah-leurofighter-et-lultimatum-des-princes\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Yamamah<\/em>, l&rsquo;<em>Eurofighter<\/em> et l&rsquo;ultimatum des princes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>L&rsquo;affaire du contrat\/scandale <em>Yamamah<\/em> est d\u00e9finitivement en train de devenir l&rsquo;affaire <em>Eurofighter<\/em> et pas loin de se transformer en affaire <em>Eurofighter<\/em> contre <em>Rafale<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLe <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> a un tr\u00e8s important article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LW53MDBJCN1WLQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=\/news\/2006\/12\/01\/nsaudi01.xml\" class=\"gen\">aujourd&rsquo;hui<\/a> sur la question, avec l&rsquo;affirmation que l&rsquo;Arabie saoudite a donn\u00e9 <strong>dix jours<\/strong> \u00e0 Tony Blair pour arr\u00eater <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article.php?art_id=3419\" class=\"gen\">l&rsquo;enqu\u00eate du SFO<\/a>. Sinon, la commande de 72 <em>Eurofighter<\/em> (\u00a310 milliards) est annul\u00e9e,  et sans doute remplac\u00e9e par une commande de 36 <em>Rafale<\/em> fran\u00e7ais. Le <em>Telegraph<\/em> pr\u00e9sente de nombreux d\u00e9tails sur la situation, et notamment sur des tractations secr\u00e8tes entre Fran\u00e7ais et Saoudiens pour pr\u00e9parer l&rsquo;\u00e9ventuelle commande de <em>Rafale<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>The Saudis are understood to have already opened negotiations with the French about buying 36 rival Rafale jets.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The Daily Telegraph has learned that President Jacques Chirac has been to Saudi Arabia twice in recent months to offer full French co-operation on such a deal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>There has since been a series of meetings in Paris. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi national security council secretary general, visited the French president on Wednesday of last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Last Monday, an envoy from the Saudi government is understood to have gone to Paris to confirm details of a potential new deal.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLes Britanniques sont \u00e9videmment en alerte g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. Le m\u00eame article assure qu&rsquo;il semble tout de m\u00eame exister une possibilit\u00e9 d&rsquo;accord. Blair joue serr\u00e9 dans cette affaire et les promesses qu&rsquo;il ferait \u00e9ventuellement pour emp\u00eacher la rupture devront \u00eatre suivies d&rsquo;effets. Les princes y veilleront.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>There were early signs last night that a peace deal could be brokered, with suggestions that the UK Government has assured the Saudis that the investigation will be wound up within a few months.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The Government is refusing to be drawn on the affair. Neither the Ministry of Defence, the Attorney General&rsquo;s office, nor Downing Street would comment last night.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>One Whitehall source said: We are where we are. The SFO is doing its work. We are expecting nothing new in the next 48 hours.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tPartie serr\u00e9e, donc, et d&rsquo;autant plus serr\u00e9e qu&rsquo;elle est semi-publique et qu&rsquo;il n&rsquo;est pas question que le SFO c\u00e8de ou paraisse c\u00e9der \u00e0 des pressions qui sont de toutes les fa\u00e7ons ill\u00e9gales. Lord Goldsmith, qui supervise le service, est assez mal dispos\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9gard du gouvernement Blair, apr\u00e8s avoir subi en mars 2003 des pressions sans la moindre retenue pour d\u00e9clarer l\u00e9gale l&rsquo;attaque contre Saddam et l&rsquo;Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tDu c\u00f4t\u00e9 politique, on est \u00e9galement tenu par la n\u00e9cessaire apparence de vertu inoxydable. Alors, on se tait ou bien l&rsquo;on proclame bien haut cette vertu.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Norman Lamb, MP, the chief of staff to the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, said if anyone was leaning on the Attorney General that was scandalous in the extreme. He added: If you are going to pass anti-corruption legislation then you have to live with the consequences of it when the going gets tough.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>There cannot be any question of interference with a criminal investigation. The idea is abhorrent.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 1er d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 03H27<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&rsquo;affaire du contrat\/scandale Yamamah est d\u00e9finitivement en train de devenir l&rsquo;affaire Eurofighter et pas loin de se transformer en affaire Eurofighter contre Rafale Le Daily Telegraph a un tr\u00e8s important article aujourd&rsquo;hui sur la question, avec l&rsquo;affirmation que l&rsquo;Arabie saoudite a donn\u00e9 dix jours \u00e0 Tony Blair pour arr\u00eater l&rsquo;enqu\u00eate du SFO. Sinon, la commande&hellip;&nbsp;<\/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":[779,3220,3219,6180,5178,4364],"class_list":["post-68259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-chirac","tag-eurofighter","tag-rafale","tag-saoudien","tag-ultimatum","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68259","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=68259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}