\tIl y a des indications pr\u00e9cises d’interventions t\u00e9l\u00e9phoniques nombreuses de dirigeants politiques de Washington aupr\u00e8s du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Abdoul Fattah al-Sisi, chef de l’arm\u00e9e \u00e9gyptienne, ministre de la d\u00e9fense et homme fort de l’\u00c9gypte, durant les semaines menant \u00e0 l’explosion de violence de ces derniers jours. Le d\u00e9fil\u00e9 est impressionnant et, dans certains cas, s’\u00e9tend sur la dur\u00e9e avec de multiples r\u00e9p\u00e9titions. Le r\u00e9sultat est impressionnant lui aussi, et se d\u00e9compte pas centaines de morts dans les rues de la capitale \u00e9gyptienne : les interventions US n’ont eu aucun effet. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t Le site DefenseOne.com<\/em> (le 16 ao\u00fbt 2013<\/a>) donne de nombreux d\u00e9tails \u00e9manant de ses sources au Pentagone sur les interventions du secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense Hagel aupr\u00e8s du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Sisi. C’est une d\u00e9monstration \u00e9poustouflante de l’argument souvent avanc\u00e9 selon lequel un coup de t\u00e9l\u00e9phone US aupr\u00e8s des dirigeants de tel pays (l’\u00c9gypte en l’occurrence) signifie que les USA manipulent ce pays ; dans ce cas, il s’agit de coups de t\u00e9l\u00e9phone presque quotidiens depuis plus d’un mois et le r\u00e9sultat est l’absence totale de manipulation, sinon une manipulation invers\u00e9e (en l’occurrence, Sisi laissant croire \u00e0 ses interlocuteurs qu’il agirait dans le sens qu’ils demandent, et faisant exactement le contraire).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel has been on the phone with his Egyptian counterpart, Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Sissi, almost every day since the July 3 military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi. And every day he has urged the Egyptian defense minister to find a peaceful resolution to the political turmoil. He’s called al-Sissi at least 15 times since the military booted Morsi from power, a Pentagon official told Defense One. By all accounts, al-Sissi had agreed. Just last week, Hagel hung up the phone with Cairo and was reassured that the Egyptian military wanted a peaceful transition. Minister Al-Sisi underscored his commitment to peaceful resolution of the ongoing protests, and thanked Secretary Hagel for U.S. support, the Pentagon said, in a description of the Aug. 5 phone call.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAfter yesterday’s bloody crackdown in the streets of Egypt that left more than 500 dead, including women and children, and scores more injured, it’s clear that Hagel’s pleas have gone unheard or ignored. With world leaders, including President Barack Obama, decrying the massacre, and ice bags and desk fans futilely cooling the overflowing bodies in Cairo’s morgues, Hagel called al-Sissi again on Thursday. According to a Pentagon statement, Hagel reiterated that the United States remains ready to work with all parties to help achieve a peaceful, inclusive way forward. The Department of Defense will continue to maintain a military relationship with Egypt, Hagel said, but I made it clear that the violence and inadequate steps towards reconciliation are putting important elements of our longstanding defense cooperation at risk. .<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb…But deep concern, after more than a dozen phone calls from Hagel and several more from other members of the Obama administration, including Secretary of State John Kerry, doesn’t seem to have influenced al-Sissi’s decision making on the other end of the line.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t L\u00e0-dessus, on ajoutera des pr\u00e9cisions de DEBKAFiles<\/em> (le 15 ao\u00fbt 2013<\/a>), \u00e0 propos de ce que les sources du site isra\u00e9lien rapportent d’un entretien qui aurait d\u00fb \u00eatre direct entre le pr\u00e9sident Obama et le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Sisi. On peut r\u00e9sumer cet entretien, soit par la formule il n’y a pas d’abonn\u00e9 au num\u00e9ro que vous demandez, soit par le constat que tout s’est pass\u00e9 comme si l’on avait, du c\u00f4t\u00e9 \u00e9gyptien, simplement raccroch\u00e9 au nez et \u00e0 la barbe de notre POTUS en vacances. DEBKAFiles<\/em> rappelle ce qu’avait \u00e9t\u00e9 le coup de t\u00e9l\u00e9phone d’Obama \u00e0 Moubarak, le 9 ou le 10 f\u00e9vrier 2011, lorsque le premier avait, si l’on peut dire, intim\u00e9 au second le conseil pressant de d\u00e9missionner, lui signifiant de ce fait qu’il renversait compl\u00e8tement sa politique de soutien qu’il avait jusqu’alors suivi…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abWhen the clashes between Egyptian security forces and pro-Morsi protesters were at their peak in Cairo Wednesday, Aug. 14 525 dead and 3,700 wounded to date President Barack Obama put in a call to Egypt’s strongman, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report. The US president wanted to give the general a dressing-down much on the lines of the call he made to former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011…<\/em> […] Realizing what was coming, Gen. El-Sissi decided not to accept President Obama’s call, our sources report. The Egyptian officials who received it informed the US president politely that the right person for him to address was Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour and they would be glad to transfer the call to him. The White House callers declined.<\/em>\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t DEBKAFiles<\/em> poursuit en affirmant qu’au m\u00eame moment o\u00f9 Obama cherchait \u00e0 joindre Sisi au t\u00e9l\u00e9phone, le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral \u00e9gyptien discutait avec Prince Bandar, chef des services de renseignement saoudiens. Puis cette pr\u00e9cisions, relevant l\u00e0 aussi des abonn\u00e9s absents : \u00abOn July 31, Bandar arrived in Moscow and was immediately received by President Vladimir Putin for a conversation that lasted four hours. The Saudi prince next received an invitation to visit Washington at his earliest convenience and meet with President Obama. Bandar has still not responded to that invitation.<\/em>\u00bb Conforme ou non \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9, cette situation de pi\u00e8tre am\u00e9nit\u00e9 entre les USA et l’Arabie a \u00e9t\u00e9 mise en \u00e9vidence par le soutien enthousiaste et solennel, contrastant absolument avec la position US, apport\u00e9 par le du roi Abdoullah aux militaires \u00e9gyptiens d\u00e9crits comme engag\u00e9s dans une lutte contre le terrorisme (Yahoo-News<\/em>, le 16 ao\u00fbt 2013<\/a> : \u00abThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its people and government stood and stands by today with its brothers in Egypt against terrorism. I call on the honest men of Egypt and the Arab and Muslim nations … to stand as one man and with one heart in the face of attempts to destabilize a country that is at the forefront of Arab and Muslim history,<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n