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Où l’on (ne) reparle (pas) du Mossad

Depuis trois jours, l’enquête des journaux anglais sur la démission du ministre britannique de la défense Liam Fox prend une tournure explosive, tournure que les médias français évitent de rapporter avec un professionnalisme qui force le respect.

Le 14 octobre, Patrick Wintour, Rupert Neate et Richard Norton-Taylor évoquent dans le Guardian les craintes d’« officiels » britanniques, qui seraient préoccupés par le fait que Fox et Werrity puissent avoir eu des liens avec les services de renseignement israéliens ;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/13/rightwing-tories-rally-liam-fox

Officials expressed concern that Fox and Werritty might even have been in freelance discussions with Israeli intelligence agencies.

Le 16 octobre, toujours dans le Guardian, Jamie Doward détaille les liens de l’organisation « Atlantic Bridge » avec le big business américain, les néoconservateurs et le « tea party » :
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-atlantic-bridge

The huge rise in income, which dwarfed that of its UK sister organisation, coincided with a significant expansion in the charity’s advisers and directors. By 2009 Werritty, whom the US accounts list as the (unpaid) UK executive director of the Atlantic Bridge, found himself reporting to a new chief executive officer, Amanda Bowman, the former New York director for the Centre for Security Policy, the neocon think-tank that opposed the planned Park 51 Muslim community centre close to the site of Ground Zero.

L’article rappelle les liens entre Werritty et Israël :

By 2009 a powerful lobby group, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (Bicom), was covering the cost of Werritty’s trip to an important security seminar in Israel. The trip was arranged by Bicom’s former deputy chairman, Michael Lewis, who donated to Atlantic Bridge and to Fox’s Tory leadership campaign in 2005. Bicom’s former communications director, Lee Petar, who runs a lobbying firm, Tetra Strategy, put Werritty in touch with the Dubai businessman, Harvey Boulter, whose meeting with Fox triggered the initial furore that triggered his demise.

Jane Merrick and James Hanning, dans The Independant ce dimanche, vont plus loin, et affirment qu’Adam Werrity a été « débriefé » par le contre-espionnage anglais spécifiquement au sujet de ses liens supposés avec le Mossad :
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-foxs-best-man-and-his-ties-to-irans-opposition-2371352.html

Adam Werritty, the man at the centre of the Liam Fox cash-for-access scandal, has been involved in an audacious plot to topple Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it was claimed last night.

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Mr Werritty, 33, has been debriefed by MI6 about his travels and is so highly regarded by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad – who thought he was Mr Fox’s chief of staff – that he was able to arrange meetings at the highest levels of the Israeli government, multiple sources have told The IoS.

Le quotidien fait carrément sa Une avec ce titre :
http://craigmurray.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/indy_werritymossad.jpg

Le même jour, l’ancien diplomate Craig Murray va plus loin dans le Daily Mail :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049642/Was-Mossad-using-Fox-Werritty-useful-idiots-Ex-Ambassador-reveals-links

But my source told me that what really was worrying senior officials in the MOD, FCO and Cabinet  Office was the possibility that Fox could be being used as a ‘useful idiot’ by Mossad, Israel’s far-reaching and extremely effective intelligence service.  

Key funding sources for Werritty were from the Israeli lobby and a rather obscure commercial intelligence agency.  

Might Mossad be pulling Werritty’s strings, with or without his knowledge?  

On Friday, two senior Fleet Street journalists also reported hearing similar concerns from other Whitehall officials about possible Israeli intelligence service involvement with Fox and Werritty.   

By working closely with an unofficial aide with extraordinary access but no security vetting and  murky funding sources, Fox had potentially compromised national security.  That is the real story here.

L’information du Independent est reprise par Haaretz :
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/report-ex-u-k-defense-secretary-adviser-involved-in-plot-to-topple-iran-pre

Adam Werritty, the adviser and close friend of Britain’s recently resigned Defense Secretary Liam Fox, was accused Sunday of involvement in a plot to bring down Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and of having links to the Mossad.

À connaissance, aucun média français n’a repris aujourd’hui ces informations, alors qu’il existe déjà une dépêche AFP datée de hier après-midi :
http://www.romandie.com/news/n/_GBex_ministre_de_la_Defense_l_opposition_reclame_une_enquete_plus_large16

Les médias, loin de s’arrêter avec la démission vendredi du ministre, ont continué dimanche de publier des révélations, remontant le fil des dons et spéculant sur l’influence des deux hommes sur la politique étrangère britannique.

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The Independent croit savoir que M. Werritty complotait pour renverser le régime iranien et était si bien considéré par le Mossad qu’il avait pu arranger des rencontres avec de hauts responsables israéliens.