L’Arabie Saoudite est de plus en plus un acteur en pointe dans la crise irakienne qui devient la crise irako-iranienne. Le site RAW Story<\/em> rapporte une information venue de la NBC selon laquelle les Saoudiens envisagent d’envoyer des troupes en Irak pour prot\u00e9ger leurs int\u00e9r\u00eats, c’est-\u00e0-dire essentiellement la communaut\u00e9 sunnite.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tSelon RAW Story<\/a> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abNBC News’ Andrea Mitchell reported on MSNBC that Saudi Arabia is mulling whether or not to send troops to Iraq, to protect their interests there. According to Mitchell, Saudi Arabia is deeply skeptical that Iraq’s government will be able to quell the unrest.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe scepticisme des Saoudiens concernant le gouvernement irakien concerne moins sa capacit\u00e9 que sa volont\u00e9 de lutter contre les insurg\u00e9s et autres r\u00e9sistants en Irak. Les Saoudiens sont persuad\u00e9s que le gouvernement irakien agit d\u00e9sormais comme un alli\u00e9 de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran et qu’il est objectivement dans le m\u00eame camp que les radicaux et insurg\u00e9s chiites. Ce m\u00eame scepticisme \u00e9clate dans un article du New York Times<\/em> du 16 janvier<\/a> : \u00abSaudi Arabia endorsed the goals of President Bush’s new strategy for Iraq today. But in carefully worded comments, the Saudi foreign minister indicated deep concern about whether the Shiite-led government in Baghdad can halt sectarian violence and protect Sunni interests.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe m\u00eame article, r\u00e9dig\u00e9 pour couvrir la visite de Rice en Arabie, aborde implicitement la question de l’envoi \u00e9ventuel de troupes saoudiennes en Irak. Les d\u00e9n\u00e9gations saoudiennes sont suffisamment ambigu\u00ebs pour qu’on comprenne que, oui, il en a \u00e9t\u00e9 question \u00abAlthough Prince Saud’s endorsement of Mr. Bush’s new Iraq plan was lukewarm at best, the prince declined to be drawn into a discussion of potential Saudi actions in the event that Iraq slides into full-blown sectarian civil war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWhy speculate on such dire consequences? Why not speculate on the positive side? he said, urging unity among Iraq’s Shiites, Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, the main groups in its population. I cannot for the life of me concede that a country like that would commit suicide, given the goodwill and the desire of all to help in this.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMais sans doute faut-il parler, lorsqu’on envisage la position de l’Arabie, d’une situation plus complexe qu’un simple \u00e9ventuel engagement en Irak. Il s’agit l\u00e0 de la position du parti de la guerre \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur de la direction saoudienne, fraction qui semble actuellement avoir le dessus. Il s’agirait d’une fraction autour du Prince Bandar ben Sultan, dont la position est ainsi d\u00e9finie par la Lettre d’information EIR Strategic Alert<\/em> (acc\u00e8s payant<\/a>) :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t[S]ources have emphasized that one of the biggest pushers of a US attack on Iran is Saudi Arabia’s national security chief and long-time Ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar Bin-Sultan. Bandar is an enthusiast for the Sunni bloc versus Iran, and has been peddling the argument with King Abdullah, that a US attack on Iran, and a surge in US combat forces in Iraq, would benefit Saudi Arabia, binding Washington to an enhanced strategic partnership with Riyadh, and assuring that there will be American boots on the ground for the foreseeable future. It was Bandar who arranged Cheney’s trip to Riyadh in late Novemberbehind the back of then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Turki bin-Faisal.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 17 janvier 2007 \u00e0 13H33<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" L’Arabie Saoudite est de plus en plus un acteur en pointe dans la crise irakienne qui devient la crise irako-iranienne. Le site RAW Story rapporte une information venue de la NBC selon laquelle les Saoudiens envisagent d’envoyer des troupes en Irak pour prot\u00e9ger leurs int\u00e9r\u00eats, c’est-\u00e0-dire essentiellement la communaut\u00e9 sunnite. 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