Magnifique : les Séoudiens financent les Talibans, alors qu’officiellement le roi soutient le gouvernement afghan.
Saudis Bankroll Taliban, Even as King Officially Supports Afghan Government
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/asia/saudi-arabia-afghanistan.html
Saudi Arabia is critical because of its unique position in the Afghan conflict: It is on both sides.
A longtime ally of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia has backed Islamabad’s promotion of the Taliban. Over the years, wealthy Saudi sheikhs and rich philanthropists have also stoked the war by privately financing the insurgents.
All the while, Saudi Arabia has officially, if coolly, supported the American mission and the Afghan government and even secretly sued for peace in clandestine negotiations on their behalf.
The contradictions are hardly accidental. Rather, they balance conflicting needs within the kingdom, pursued through both official policy and private initiative.
The dual tracks allow Saudi officials plausibly to deny official support for the Taliban, even as they have turned a blind eye to private funding of the Taliban and other hard-line Sunni groups.
The result is that the Saudis — through private or covert channels — have tacitly supported the Taliban in ways that make the kingdom an indispensable power broker.
Ça me semble suffisamment énorme pour que tu n’en entendes plus jamais parler (sauf dans des reprises sur des médias hum-hum).
