La menace terroriste dépasse largement le cas de Daech

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  • U.S. and Russia Agree on Steps to Combat ISIS in Syria - The New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/middleeast/us-and-russia-agree-on-steps-to-combat-isis-in-syria.html

    MOSCOW — The United States and Russia announced a tentative deal on Friday to coordinate airstrikes against the Islamic State and the Nusra Front , Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.

    [...]

    Mr. Kerry made clear that defeating the Nusra Front was a major American priority.

    “So if some critic is criticizing the United States or Russia for going after Al Nusra, which is a terrorist organization, because they’re good fighters against Assad, they have their priorities completely screwed up,” Mr. Kerry said. “The fact is that Nusra is plotting against countries in the world. What happened in Nice last night could just as well come from Nusra or wherever it came from as any other entity. Because that’s what they do.”

    [...]

    The United States has carried out occasional strikes against what have been described as senior Qaeda figures in Syria. But it has refrained from systematic attacks against the Nusra Front, whose ranks are heavily Syrian, including many who left less extreme rebel groups because Nusra was better armed and financed.

    • Dans un article écrit quelques heures auparavant, le « think tank » financé par les dictateurs du Golfe arabo-persique disait ceci :
      http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/world/middleeast/john-kerry-vladimir-putin-syria-plan.html

      Faysal Itani, a senior fellow at the #Atlantic_Council, was also critical of the proposed military coordination with the Russians. He said that combined attacks against Nusra would effectively end the Syrian opposition, cementing Mr. Assad’s grip on power and enraging most Syrians.

    • Rapport au Sénat étasunien de l’envoyé spécial d’Obama, Brett H. McGurk (fin juin 2016)
      http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/062816_McGurk_Testimony.pdf

      In Syria, as ISIL is losing territory in the east, its terrorist rival – Jabhat al-Nusra – is gaining ground in the west, putting down roots in Idlib province along the Turkish border. Nusra is establishing schools and training camps, recruiting from abroad, launching major military operations, and enjoying a sophisticated on-line presence, all the while providing safe haven for some of al Qaida’s most experienced terrorists. With direct ties to Ayman al Zawahiri,
      Osama Bin Laden’s successor, Nusra is now al Qaida largest formal affiliate in history.

      Traduit ici, http://www.slate.fr/story/121139/victoire-irak-syrie-terrorisme-europe

      « [Le Front] #al-Nosra implante des écoles et des camps d’entraînements, recrute depuis l’étranger, mène des opérations militaires d’envergure et jouit d’une présence sophistiquée sur le Web, tout en offrant un refuge à certains terroristes d’#al-Qaida parmi les plus expérimentés. [Il entretient aussi] des liens directs avec Ayman al-Zawahiri, l’héritier de Ben Laden. » Ce qui en fait, pour reprendre la formule de M. McGurk, « la plus grande filiale officielle d’al-Qaida de l’histoire. »