29 octobre<\/a>. Il s’attache surtout \u00e0 l’hypoth\u00e8se du d\u00e9sordre, notamment avec une interview du colonel Pat Lang, un ancien officier du renseignement militaire, d\u00e9veloppant l’analyse d’une intervention autonome des forces sp\u00e9ciales, hors de la hi\u00e9rarchie, si tant est qu’il existe encore une hi\u00e9rarchie s\u00e9rieuse dans les affaires militaires US dans ce domaine des divers aspects et unit\u00e9s des forces sp\u00e9ciales. Les explications du colonel Pat Lang semblent correspondre \u00e0 la situation et au fonctionnement des forces sp\u00e9ciales US, dont le statut est, surtout depuis le 11 septembre 2001, extr\u00eamement flou et marqu\u00e9 d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale par la plus grande latitude possible dans l’action, et le moins d’attention possible pour la notion de souverainet\u00e9 des autres pays. Donald Rumsfeld, qui est \u00e0 la base du d\u00e9veloppement des effectifs et des actions des forces sp\u00e9ciales dans le cadre de la guerre contre la Terreur, avait explicitement install\u00e9 des structures, ou des non-structures en un sens, permettant \u00e0 cette sorte d’action de prolif\u00e9rer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThis operation is pretty clearly run by U.S. special operations forces pursuing a terrorist target, Col. Pat Lang, a retired U.S. military intelligence officer, told IPS. Their sole mission is like a SWAT team to go around and hunt terrorists. Lang said that these special operations forces sometimes operate distinctly outside the normal military chain of command by design of hawkish former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld. If left to themselves, they would do this kind of thing<\/em> [the Syria raid<\/em>]. That’s what they do, said Lang. They don’t follow policy, they carry out their assigned mission.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBecause the U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, is dealing with mounting concerns about the SOFA<\/em> [Status Of Forces Agreement<\/em>, n\u00e9goci\u00e9e entre USA et l’Irak], Lang suspects that he’d be hesitant to directly approve such a bold a provocative attack as Sunday afternoon’s. I haven’t established it yet, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the authority to do this came right out of the White House, Lang told IPS.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAsked if the decision doesn’t undermine pressing U.S. goals for commanders in Iraq, Lang said that while the considerations are there, they don’t always filter up into decision making in the executive branch. Usually command arrangements of various kinds are messy, Lang said, and this White House has shown a tendency to want to bypass the established chain of command and influence what’s going on<\/em> [in the field<\/em>].<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut in addition to being a bold foreign policy move, the raid has also been interpreted by some as a political stunt, albeit one unlikely to succeed. Some journalists and experts have speculated that the raid was a Bush administration attempt to deliver an October Surprise a late game-changing development favoring one candidate for Republican candidate Sen. John McCain just over a week before the presidential election in which he badly trails Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in most polls.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 30 octobre 2008 \u00e0 05H52<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’attaque US contre la Syrie est l’objet de diverses hypoth\u00e8ses et analyses. Elle appara\u00eet comme une \u00e9trange initiative par rapport \u00e0 la situation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. L’administration Bush est sur la fin de son mandat et dans une situation particuli\u00e8rement erratique, dans un grand d\u00e9sordre, avec une absence de coordination g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, etc. Les initiatives diplomatiques encore en… <\/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":[3460,6416,7876,569,4983,3867],"class_list":["post-70310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-forces","tag-lang","tag-pat","tag-rumsfeld","tag-speciales","tag-syrie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70310","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=70310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}