{"id":73718,"date":"2014-02-21T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/21\/bandar-out-sans-doute\/"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:44:08","slug":"bandar-out-sans-doute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/21\/bandar-out-sans-doute\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandar out<\/em>, sans doute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bandar out<\/em>, sans doute<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

L’affirmation de l’\u00e9viction de Prince Bandar de son poste de direction des affaires de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de renseignement et de subversion de l’Arabie Saoudite semble \u00eatre s\u00e9rieuse et fond\u00e9e. L’information est publi\u00e9e notamment par deux sources repr\u00e9sentatives, le site DEBKAFiles<\/em> et le Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

• DEBKAFiles<\/em>, le 19 f\u00e9vrier 2014<\/a> : «The live wire of the Saudi royal house’s drive against President Barack Obama’s d\u00e9tente with Tehran has been dropped. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s National Security Adviser and Intelligence Director, has not been seen for more than a month. He was reported by DEBKAfile’s US and Saudi sources Wednesday, Feb. 19, to have been removed from the tight policy-making circle in Riyadh.<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

»There has been no official word from Riyadh disclosing any change in Bandar’s status. Our sources report that the prince, a long-serving ambassador to the United States, vanished off Saudi and Middle East radar screens in mid-January, shortly before he was scheduled to visit Washington to arrange President Obama’s forthcoming trip to Riyadh in the last week of March. Bandar never arrived in Washington and no one in Riyadh was ready to answer questions about his whereabouts. US sources were more forthcoming – although less complimentary. In some reports he was dismissed as \u00ab\u00a0hotheaded\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0erratic.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

• Le Wall Street Journal<\/em> du 19 f\u00e9vrier 2014<\/a> (acc\u00e8s payant), cit\u00e9 par War In Context<\/em> le m\u00eame 19 f\u00e9vrier 2014<\/a> : «Saudi Arabia has sidelined its veteran intelligence chief, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, as leader of the kingdom’s efforts to arm and fund Syrian rebels, replacing him with another prince well-regarded by U.S. officials for his successes fighting al Qaeda, Saudi royal advisers said this week.<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

»Prince Bandar, an experienced but at times mercurial ex-diplomat and intelligence chief, presided over Saudi Arabia’s Syria operations for the past two years with little success, as a rift opened up with the U.S. over how much to back rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who has won praise in Washington for his counterterror work against al Qaeda in Yemen and elsewhere, is now a main figure in carrying out Syria policy, a royal adviser and a security analyst briefed by Saudi officials said Tuesday.<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Les deux sources insistent sur le fait que l’\u00e9viction de Prince Bandar constitue une victoire pour les USA, qui le consid\u00e9raient depuis plusieurs mois comme une nuisance pour leur politique dans deux dossiers, la Syrie et l’Iran. A l’inverse, DEBKAFiles<\/em> d\u00e9crit cette \u00e9viction comme une d\u00e9faite significative de Netanyahou dans ses efforts pour faire un front uni avec l’Arabie contre l’Iran.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

D’une fa\u00e7on plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, on observera que cette \u00e9viction probable correspondrait \u00e0 une logique de la situation. Bandar avait \u00e9t\u00e9 mis \u00e0 ce poste d’importance pour l’action ext\u00e9rieure de l’Arabie, essentiellement pour activer la guerre civile en Syrie \u00e0 l’avantage de l’Arabie, et pour y impliquer les USA. Le tournant \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard est l’\u00e9chec, en août-septembre 2013, du projet d’attaque en Syrie du pr\u00e9sident Obama. Il y a de fortes pr\u00e9somptions pour penser que cette op\u00e9ration devait \u00eatre l’aboutissement du montage autour de l’attaque chimique du 21 août en Syrie, consid\u00e9r\u00e9 en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral comme une op\u00e9ration de provocation de Bandar lui-m\u00eame. L’\u00e9chec du projet d’attaque US a donc \u00e9t\u00e9 ressenti comme un \u00e9chec \u00e9galement pour Bandar lui-m\u00eame. A partir de l\u00e0, l’\u00e9volution de la situation tant en Syrie qu’en Iran a tourn\u00e9 dans un sens compl\u00e8tement diff\u00e9rent de celui qu’avait pr\u00e9vu Bandar. Sa position et son action sont devenues inutiles, voire dommageables pour la position de l’Arabie. C’est selon ce point de vue qu’on peut accepter la nouvelle officieuse de son \u00e9viction comme tr\u00e8s logique, et donc consid\u00e9rer qu’il y a de fortes chances qu’elle soit vraie. Le d\u00e9part de Bandar, selon sa confirmation, figurerait comme le symbole d’un tournant de la situation au Moyen-Orient qui prive cet homme de tout int\u00e9r\u00eat pour la politique saoudienne, laquelle devrait d\u00e9sormais suivre une ligne plus mod\u00e9r\u00e9e, ou \u00e0 tout le moins, moins exalt\u00e9e et aventureuse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mis en ligne le 21 f\u00e9vrier 2014 \u00e0 15H48<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bandar out, sans doute L’affirmation de l’\u00e9viction de Prince Bandar de son poste de direction des affaires de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de renseignement et de subversion de l’Arabie Saoudite semble \u00eatre s\u00e9rieuse et fond\u00e9e. L’information est publi\u00e9e notamment par deux sources repr\u00e9sentatives, le site DEBKAFiles et le Wall Street Journal. • DEBKAFiles, le 19 f\u00e9vrier 2014 :… <\/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":[21],"tags":[5667,11462,15640,2773,4173,2790,3867],"class_list":["post-73718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breves-de-crise","tag-bandar","tag-debkafiles","tag-eviction","tag-iran","tag-montage","tag-netanyahou","tag-syrie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718","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=73718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}