Où le #cablegate révèle l’existence d’au moins un programme secret mené par les Américains au #Liban: «#Cedar_Sweep»:
►http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/05/08LONDON1350.html
Le guardian y consacre un long article:
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-cyprus-rendition-torture
"The use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus for American U2 spy plane missions over Hezbollah locations in Lebanon – missions that have never been disclosed until now – prompted an acrimonious series of exchanges between British officials and the US embassy in London, according to the cables released by WikiLeaks. The then foreign secretary David Miliband is quoted as saying, unavailingly, “policymakers needed to get control of the military”.
Ministers demanded a full “audit trail” of covert operations, codenamed Cedar Sweep, amid growing public concern in the UK about unacknowledged CIA rendition flights and alleged UK complicity in torture. The planes gathered intelligence that was then allegedly passed to the Lebanese authorities to help them track down Hezbollah militants. In the past, such flights have also been carried out on Israel’s behalf by the Americans."
À noter que la câble original (mai 2008) évoque ceci: les Américains prétendent effectuer cette opération «Cedar Sweep» à la demande du gouvernement libanais tout entier. Le bureau régional des anglais, lui, croit savoir que:
“The regional bureau was concerned that the request for reconnaissance assistance may have only been made by the Lebanese Ministry of Defense, rather the entire Lebanese cabinet, which apparently requires consensus on controversial issues.”
What what what? Could that be the infamous mister Murr? Could you believe that?