{"id":69506,"date":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/17\/bassorah-mission-accomplished-suite-et-fin\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","slug":"bassorah-mission-accomplished-suite-et-fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/17\/bassorah-mission-accomplished-suite-et-fin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bassorah, \u201cMission accomplished<\/em>\u201d, suite et fin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les Britanniques ont d\u00e9finitivement transf\u00e9r\u00e9 hier<\/a> leur autorit\u00e9 sur la province de Bassorah aux autorit\u00e9s locales. Lesquelles ? On verra bien les violences \u00e0 Bassorah sont r\u00e9duites de 90% a dit Gordon Brown aux Communes. En d’autres mots : Mission accomplished<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPar cons\u00e9quent, un rapide coup d’il sur le venimeux article du Sunday Times<\/em> du 16 d\u00e9cembre<\/a> nous permet de nous faire une id\u00e9e sur la fa\u00e7on dont l’Occident r\u00e8gle ses comptes pour l’\u00e9tablissement tant attendu de la d\u00e9mocratie locale. Qu’on nous pardonne de citer substantiellement cet article, court mais \u00e9difiant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abIt was just after 11pm and the shopkeeper was closing up for the night when a van screeched to a halt outside. The back doors flew open. Someone inside threw a woman onto the street, he said. She was lying on the road but she was still alive. A man lent out and shot a machine-gun into her body.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAs the van raced away, the shopkeeper ran over to her. She was aged 25 to 30 with long dark hair and was lying face up. There was so much blood, he said. The police just took a photograph and put her in the back of a van.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThere have been 48 women killed in six months for un-Islamic behaviour. The murders in the teeming southern port of Basra have highlighted the weakness of the security forces and the strength of Islamic militias as Britain prepares to hand over control to Iraqi officials today.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn another case, two teenagers saw a woman beaten to death by five or six men from the Mahdi Army, Basra’s most powerful militia. One picked up a rock and crushed her skull. The teenagers were told that their home and family would be destroyed if they betrayed the killers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbGordon Brown told the Commons last week that Iraq was now a democracy, that violence in Basra had fallen by 90% and that the Iraqis were taking control over their own security.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbHowever, Major-General Jalil Khalaf, the police chief, said the city’s 28 militias were better armed than his men. They control the ports which earns them huge sums of money he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAs well as skimming profits from oil exports, they were importing weapons from Iran. You could smuggle a tank across that border if you wanted to, he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbDuring four days of reporting independently in Basra the first western journalist to do so for a British newspaper in almost two years I met a Baghdad official who had come to investigate the port. He was abducted, tortured and freed only after a gift was promised to the kidnappers.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette situation \u00e0 Bassorah est largement confirm\u00e9e par le Guardian<\/em> de ce matin<\/a>, qui rend compte d’un film Guardianfilms\/ITV News, visible sur son site et qui doit \u00eatre diffus\u00e9 sur ITV News aujourd’hui. Il s’agit notamment d’une interview du chef de la police de la ville, qui confirme le reportage du Sunday Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe full scale of the chaos left behind by British forces in Basra was revealed yesterday as the city’s police chief described a province in the grip of well-armed militias strong enough to overpower security forces and brutal enough to behead women considered not sufficiently Islamic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAs British forces finally handed over security in Basra province, marking the end of 4\u00bd years of control in southern Iraq, Major General Jalil Khalaf, the new police commander, said the occupation had left him with a situation close to mayhem. They left me militia, they left me gangsters, and they left me all the troubles in the world, he said in an in an interview for Guardian Films and ITV.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbKhalaf painted a very different picture from that of British officials who, while acknowledging problems in southern Iraq, said yesterday’s handover at Basra airbase was timely and appropriate.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe chef de la police fait le proc\u00e8s de l’action britannique, \u00e0 l’image de la d\u00e9cision et de l’action de leur Premier ministre de l’\u00e9poque apr\u00e8s tout (bien intentionn\u00e9e mais aux cons\u00e9quences catastrophiques). Il met l’accent sur la situation provoqu\u00e9e par l’intol\u00e9rance religieuse des groupes extr\u00e9mistes qui agissent en toute impunit\u00e9 (notamment l’assassinat des 48 femmes pour des raisons religieuses, signal\u00e9 plus haut). Il n’y a sans doute pas d’aspect de la situation irakienne actuelle o\u00f9 l’on constate le plus nettement combien l’intervention des Anglo-Saxons dans le pays a rendu la situation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale pire qu’elle n’\u00e9tait avant leur arriv\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abKhalaf, who has survived 20 assassination attempts since he became police chief six months ago, said Britain’s intentions had been good but misguided. I don’t think the British meant for this mess to happen. When they disbanded the Iraqi police and military after Saddam fell the people they put in their place were not loyal to the Iraqi government. The British trained and armed these people in the extremist groups and now we are faced with a situation where these police are loyal to their parties not their country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbHe said the most shocking aspect of the breakdown of law and order in Basra was the murder of women for being unIslamic. They are being killed because they are accused of behaving in an immoral way. When they kill them they put underwear and indecent clothes on them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn his office Khalaf showed the Guardian a computer holding the files of 48 unidentified women. Some of them have even been killed with their children because their killer says that they come out of an adulterous relationship, he said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 17 d\u00e9cembre 2007 \u00e0 05H21<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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