Does this look like it’s a defeated army? he asked on the BBC’s Ten o’Clock News. No, it’s complete bollocks, he continued. The errant expletive was not his only slip.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abA more important one came when he added: Arguably, the peace and quiet we’re seeing in Basra at the moment is because we fought them to the negotiating table.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t En effet, c’est le plus important. Le Sunday Times<\/em> note combien la remarque de Sanders concernant la table de n\u00e9gociations est surprenante alors que le minist\u00e8re de la d\u00e9fense insistait sur le fait qu’il n’y avait eu aucune manigance dans l’organisation du retrait. Puis on en est venu \u00e0 nuancer : \u00abLate last week the MoD finally admitted to having held talks with the militias. We talk to the Mahdi Army and other militia groups in our area of operations as part of the strategy of political engagement we have long pursued, it said. The Mahdi Army clearly have an interest in and an influence over Basra and the rest of Iraq, and an outright refusal to engage in dialogue with them would not be in Iraq’s, or Basra’s, best interests.<\/em>\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tFinalement, le Sunday Times<\/em> a eu la souplesse d’aller \u00e0 la meilleure source en l’occurrence, c’est-\u00e0-dire un officiel de haut rang (on est bien organis\u00e9) de l’Arm\u00e9e du Mahdi du jeune radical chiite Moqtada el-Sadr. Ainsi connaissons-nous le dernier fin mot du retrait en bon ordre de l’arm\u00e9e britannique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIt was the British who came to us in the first place to strike a deal, a senior official said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThey wanted us to stop attacking their compounds and troops. It was not the Mahdi Army that went to them. It was obvious to us that they had suffered enough attacks and could not deal with more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMahdi Army leaders had agreed to cease all attacks on two conditions, the official said. First that they release our men and prisoners and then that they withdraw totally from Basra city itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbEventually the British agreed to our demands and released nine Mahdi men, some of whom were senior commanders. They also promised to hand over the others to the Iraqi courts, which we know will not charge our men.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tEt le qutidien de conclure sibrement : \u00abWhile the demand that the troops withdraw from Basra merely reiterated previously announced British policy, the release of the prisoners has cast doubt over denials of a deal.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Dans le d\u00e9sastre irakien g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, les Britanniques ne sont pas trop m\u00e9contents de la fa\u00e7on dont ils ont quitt\u00e9 Basra. Ils \u00e9vitent les signes imm\u00e9diats et trop apparents de l’humiliation. Le Sunday Times d’hier publiait un article assez bien balanc\u00e9 pour m\u00e9nager ch\u00e8vres et choux. L’article commence sur l’affirmation que les autorit\u00e9s washingtoniennes ont donn\u00e9… <\/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":[5394,3703,4147,4408],"class_list":["post-69204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-basra","tag-britanniques","tag-deroute","tag-sadr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69204","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=69204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}