Nidal

“You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil, they’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil.”

  • Le Qatar a dépensé entre 1 et 3 milliards de dollars en Syrie.
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/86e3f28e-be3a-11e2-bb35-00144feab7de.html

    The small state with a gargantuan appetite is the biggest donor to the political opposition, providing generous refugee packages to defectors (one estimate puts it at $50,000 a year for a defector and his family) and has provided vast amounts of humanitarian support.

    In September, many rebels in Syria’s Aleppo province received a one-off payment of $150 courtesy of Qatar. Sources close to the Qatari government say total spending has reached as much as $3bn, while rebel and diplomatic sources put the figure at $1bn at most.

    Et pourtant, il est dépassé par l’Arabie séoudite :

    The gas-rich state of Qatar has spent as much as $3bn over the past two years supporting the rebellion in Syria, far exceeding any other government, but is now being nudged aside by Saudi Arabia as the prime source of arms to rebels.

    Les ingérences étrangères de cette nature devraient toujours être questionnées : dans quel état se retrouve(rait) n’importe quel pays (y compris un grand pays occidental), quel que soit son système politique, dans lequel des pays étrangers déversent entre 2 et 6 milliards de dollars en deux ans pour financer et armer une opposition (le fait qu’une partie de cette opposition armée est désormais constituée de fanatiques religieux n’étant même pas l’aspect principal de la question) ?