{"id":68991,"date":"2007-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/10\/shocking-le-doj-a-lintention-dexplorer-jusquaux-plus-vieux-secrets-des-bijoux-de-la-famille-bae\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T00:00:00","slug":"shocking-le-doj-a-lintention-dexplorer-jusquaux-plus-vieux-secrets-des-bijoux-de-la-famille-bae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/10\/shocking-le-doj-a-lintention-dexplorer-jusquaux-plus-vieux-secrets-des-bijoux-de-la-famille-bae\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking<\/em>, \u2014 le DoJ a l’intention d’explorer jusqu’aux plus vieux secrets des bijoux de la famille BAE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les fuites qui entourent l’affaire BAE se poursuivent et concernent d\u00e9sormais le nouveau front central de cette affaire : l’enqu\u00eate du d\u00e9partement de la justice (DoJ) am\u00e9ricain. Le Times<\/em> de Londres nous apprend aujourd’hui<\/a> que le DoJ entend donner \u00e0 son enqu\u00eate une ampleur historique inattendue. Il entend remonter \u00e0 la racine des contrats Al-Yamamah<\/em> et de la phase actuelle des relations entre le Royaume-Uni et l’Arabie Saoudite, c’est-\u00e0-dire 1983-1985. Il a contact\u00e9 les personnalit\u00e9s au cur de l’origine de l’affaire, jusqu’aux ic\u00f4nes elles-m\u00eames, comme la baronne Thatcher, alors Premier ministre, et le ministre de la d\u00e9fense d’alors, Lord Heseltine. L’\u00e9motion est consid\u00e9rable.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe DoJ has contacted individuals linked to the early stages of al-Yamamah in an indication that the Americans plan to rake through the entire 25-year history of Britain’s largest export deal. The DoJ’s attempts to uncover corruption in the deal could lead to requests to interview senior figures involved, such as Baroness Thatcher and Lord Heseltine.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLes Britanniques, qui sont v\u00e9ritablement terroris\u00e9s par l’enqu\u00eate du DoJ, le sont d\u00e9sormais encore plus par sa philosophie. Ils jugeaient que cette enqu\u00eate se cantonnerait aux dix derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, couvrant la p\u00e9riode o\u00f9 le syst\u00e8me de subvention du Prince Bandar fut mis en place et fonctionna (sur un montant global de $2 milliards). Cela n’est pas le cas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abDefence analysts had expected the DoJ investigation, which was announced two weeks ago, to focus on these payments. However, it appears that the DoJ plans a much wider-reaching inquiry and it is starting with the early negotiations, beginning in about 1983.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbKey figures involved in the deal at that time include the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who personally lobbied the Saudi royal family to buy British jets. Michael Heseltine was the Defence Secretary and the Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO), which markets British weapons abroad, was run by Lord [James] Blythe and Sir Colin Chandler, who is now chairman of easyJet.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe DoJ is understood to be planning to send investigators to the UK to conduct interviews with those involved in al-Yamamah. It may find it difficult to gather facts as the details are classified secret by the UK Government. Officials involved in the early negotiations and subsequent extensions to the deal have also all signed the Official Secrets Act.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbHoward Wheeldon, senior strategist with BGC Partners, said: I hope the DoJ fully realises what they are doing. I find it inconceivable that the Americans will be able to pursue what is a deal between the British and Saudi Governments.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tInconcevable, c’est bien le mot, celui qu’emploie Howard Wheeldon pour qualifier des intentions qui impliquent de facto<\/em> un processus s’apparentant et conduisant \u00e0 une violation directe de la souverainet\u00e9 nationale du Royaume-Uni par le DoJ. Mais on r\u00e9pliquerait: et alors? Qui a habitu\u00e9 les Am\u00e9ricains \u00e0 proc\u00e9der de la sorte, sinon les architectes des special relationships<\/em>, et le plus audacieux d’entre tous, Tony Blair, l’homme qui a fait de son pays un Etat de plus des Etats-Unis? Et puis, l’on sait ce qu’est BAE, ce groupe soi-disant britannique, aujourd’hui am\u00e9ricanis\u00e9 jusqu’\u00e0 la moelle, qui fait d’assez beaux b\u00e9n\u00e9fices avec les contrats du Pentagone. D’o\u00f9 cette int\u00e9ressante question : que va faire le gouvernement britannique devant les \u00e9ventuelles exigences du DoJ de s’asseoir sur le Official Secrets Act pour pouvoir obtenir les r\u00e9ponses qu’il veut d’une Thatcher ou d’un Heseltine?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe premier commentaire de lecteur accompagnant le texte du Times<\/em> sur le site du journal sonne comme une r\u00e9ponse sans concessions et avec toutes les justifications du monde, dans le contexte sp\u00e9cial UK-USA, que les Am\u00e9ricains feraient aux exclamations britanniques. Il est, est-ce un hasard apr\u00e8s tout? d’un lecteur US (Joe Blake), de Chicago (o\u00f9 se trouve le si\u00e8ge social de Boeing). Il rassemble tous les arguments politiques et techniques des USA, menaces \u00e0 la clef, pour poursuivre sans concessions et en profondeur une enqu\u00eate sur BAE et<\/strong> sur les liens du Royaume-Uni avec l’Arabie Saoudite.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abBAE Systems Inc. (the US entity) should be barred from doing any more business with or inside the US until we figure out the exact nature of the British alliance with Saudi Arabia (cultivators, if not engineers, of the 9-11-2001 attacks on the US).<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSince 1999 when, BAE Systems bought its way into the US arms industry, the US business has counted for 2\/3 to 1\/2 of the company’s total income. So the bribes that BAE Systems (the PLC) made to the Saudi’s in order to keep Britain more secure were financed in large part by the lucrative business that BAE Systems (the Inc.) does with the Pentagon. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbToo bad those bribes didn’t keep us more secure.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 10 juillet 2007 \u00e0 05H09<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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