{"id":68486,"date":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/04\/les-mercenaires-la-seconde-force-armee-alliee-en-irak\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","slug":"les-mercenaires-la-seconde-force-armee-alliee-en-irak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/04\/les-mercenaires-la-seconde-force-armee-alliee-en-irak\/","title":{"rendered":"Les mercenaires : la seconde force arm\u00e9e \u201calli\u00e9e\u201d en Irak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Pour la premi\u00e8re fois, une estimation officielle du volume des forces mercenaires (priv\u00e9es) engag\u00e9es en Irak a \u00e9t\u00e9 dite publiquement. Le nombre est estim\u00e9 \u00e0 30.000-50.000, ce qui fait des mercenaires la deuxi\u00e8me force militaire du camp dit de la coalition.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tC&rsquo;est l&rsquo;Espagnol Jose Luis Gomez del Prado, membre du groupe de l&rsquo;ONU charg\u00e9 de la question des troupes priv\u00e9es et mercenaires, qui a donn\u00e9 ces chiffres publiquement, lors d&rsquo;une visite au P\u00e9rou vendredi dernier 2 f\u00e9vrier. Gomez del Prado a comment\u00e9 d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on assez \u00e9nigmatique : \u00ab<em>The case of Iraq is a new manifestation of the use of mercenaries that has caughts the US by surprise.<\/em>\u00bb Il voulait sans doute dire que les Am\u00e9ricains n&rsquo;envisageaient pas que l&rsquo;usage de mercenaires conduirait \u00e0 une force d&rsquo;un tel volume, l&rsquo;accumulation s&rsquo;\u00e9tant faite par l&rsquo;action non coordonn\u00e9e de diverses agences de renseignement ou autres, de services arm\u00e9s, etc., de la bureaucratie US. L&rsquo;arm\u00e9e mercenaire se serait constitu\u00e9e d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on informelle, bureaucratique, sans plan ni quelque intention que ce soit, pour se retrouver avec une force de cette importance. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tL&#8217;emploi de mercenaires est un facteur d&rsquo;instabilit\u00e9 de plus en Irak, ces forces \u00e9tant souvent assez mal contr\u00f4l\u00e9es et respectant d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on assez \u00e9pisodique la hi\u00e9rarchie et les r\u00e8glements de guerre. C&rsquo;est un facteur de d\u00e9structuration de plus. Le volume de ces forces en Irak met d&rsquo;autant plus en \u00e9vidence la crise des effectifs  US et l&rsquo;impuissance des forces arm\u00e9es US \u00e0 conduire elles-m\u00eames les guerres qu&rsquo;elles d\u00e9clenchent. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tUne <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070203\/wl_mideast_afp\/peruiraqmilitary_070203144519;_ylt=An64SwO39KHM0YW8FkAR4xRX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl\" class=\"gen\">d\u00e9p\u00eache AFP<\/a>, qui donne des pr\u00e9cisions sur la visite de Gomez del Prado au P\u00e9rou, apporte des pr\u00e9cisions sur les probl\u00e8mes pos\u00e9s par ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne, \u00e9galement dans les pays d&rsquo;origine de ces mercenaires. Les m\u00e9thodes de recrutement, souvent pratiqu\u00e9es de mani\u00e8re contrainte et sur simple promesse d&rsquo;argent, sans pr\u00e9cisions sur les missions \u00e0 accomplir, fournissent des mercenaires inexp\u00e9riment\u00e9s, sans gu\u00e8re de formation militaire et souvent conduits \u00e0 ob\u00e9ir pour effectuer n&rsquo;importe quelle mission.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Gomez del Prado told a news conference thousands of Peruvians, Chileans, Colombians, Hondurans and Ecuadorans had been contracted to work as mercenaries in Iraq, thanks to an array of legal loopholes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The trend has caused widespread public concern in Peru.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Rights workers have voiced concern that people are being hired to work as security guards in Iraq but are then given military training and asked to perform previously unforseen tasks which draw them into full combat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Gomez del Prado&rsquo;s Colombian colleague, Amada Guevara, told the news conference that in some cases, workers were contracted by existing companies who exploited legal loopholes. But in other cases, they were taken on by ghost firms who arrived in a country, opened an office for a month, contracted workers and then disappeared without trace.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>This amounts to privatisation of warfare, she said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 4 f\u00e9vrier 2007 \u00e0 08H47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pour la premi\u00e8re fois, une estimation officielle du volume des forces mercenaires (priv\u00e9es) engag\u00e9es en Irak a \u00e9t\u00e9 dite publiquement. Le nombre est estim\u00e9 \u00e0 30.000-50.000, ce qui fait des mercenaires la deuxi\u00e8me force militaire du camp dit de la coalition. C&rsquo;est l&rsquo;Espagnol Jose Luis Gomez del Prado, membre du groupe de l&rsquo;ONU charg\u00e9 de&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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[857,6399],"class_list":["post-68486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-irak","tag-mercenaires"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68486","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=68486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}