The U.A.E. Needs Qatar’s Gas to Keep Dubai’s Lights On
When it comes to natural gas shipments, the United Arab Emirates needs Qatar more than Qatar needs the U.A.E.
Evergreen and OOCL suspend Qatar shipping services | Daily Mail Online
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-4580614/Evergreen-OOCL-suspend-Qatar-shipping-services.html
Taiwan’s Evergreen and Hong Kong’s OOCL said on Wednesday they had suspended shipping services to Qatar after Arab countries severed diplomatic ties with the Gulf state and imposed port restrictions this week.
[…]
Evergreen, the world’s no.6 container shipping line and OOCL, the world’s no. 7 carrier, said in separate statements that they had temporarily suspended services to and from Qatar until further notice.
Evergreen said this was “in light of the blockade imposed on Qatar”, while OOCL cited “the current political climate in the region”.
“We are working closely with our stakeholders to address the impact on services,” OOCL added.
Denmark’s Maersk, the world’s biggest container shipping line, said on Tuesday it was unable to transport goods in or out of Qatar because it could not take them through the United Arab Emirates port of Jebel Ali. Maersk added that it was trying to find alternative routes.
In contrast, the world’s No.2 line, MSC of Switzerland, said on Wednesday “cargo acceptance to and from Qatar is still ongoing”.
“The company is in dialogue with the relevant authorities and assessing the potential impact on its operations,” MSC said.
The ban imposed earlier this week has meant that container ships and other types of vessels sailing to and from Qatar will be prevented from calling at major ports in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which include Jebel Ali, as well as Bahrain.
The UAE said on Wednesday that more moves against Qatar, including further curbs on business, remained on the table.
Larger container ships are unable to dock at ports in Qatar due in part to shallow waters so shipping lines especially use feeder services, which transport container boxes from the larger port of Jebel Ali.
Evergreen said before the suspension it had offered a direct service to Doha by taking cargo slots on ships operated by France’s CMA CGM, the world’s no.3 line.
Evergreen said other cargoes had been separately transhipped via Jebel Ali.
CMA CGM did not immediately respond to requests for comment over whether it had suspended services.
Will Qatar’s Diplomatic Exile Spark the Next Great War? | Foreign Policy
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/05/will-qatars-diplomatic-exile-spark-the-next-great-war-saudi-arabia-tr
Sarajevo 1914, Doha 2017 ?
Carrément !
Avec les deux versions de la folle #nuit_torride du 24 mai
There are at least two narratives for how we got here. If you believe the government of Qatar, the official Qatar News Agency was hacked on May 24 and a fake news story was transmitted quoting Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani as saying, “There is no reason behind Arabs’ hostility to Iran.” The allegedly false report reaffirmed Qatar’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian offshoot, Hamas, as well as claiming Doha’s relations with Israel were good.
The government-influenced media in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, adopted an alternative narrative, treating the news story as true and responding quickly with a burst of outrage. The emir’s comments were endlessly repeated and, to the anger of Doha, internet access to Qatari media was blocked so that the official denial could not be read.
There is a possibility that the initial hacking was orchestrated by Tehran, which was annoyed by the anti-Iran posture of the May 20-21 summit in Riyadh, when President Donald Trump met King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Salman and representatives of dozens of Muslim states.
Washington can play an important role in defusing this potentially explosive situation. U.S. officials may believe that Qatar was being less than evenhanded in its balancing act between the United States and Iran — but a drawn-out conflict between Riyadh and Doha, or a struggle that pushes Qatar into Tehran’s arms, would benefit no one. In this respect, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is arguably well-placed. ExxonMobil, where he was CEO before joining the U.S. government, is the biggest foreign player in Qatar’s energy sector, so he presumably knows the main decision-makers well.
Crise du Golfe : le Qatar a-t-il été piégé par les Emirats arabes unis ?
▻http://www.latribune.fr/economie/international/crise-du-golfe-le-qatar-a-t-il-ete-piege-par-les-emirats-arabes-unis-74414
Les Emirats arabes unis seraient à l’origine d’une cyberattaque visant les réseaux sociaux et les sites du gouvernement qatari fin mai, assurent plusieurs membres des renseignements américains interrogés par le Washington Post. Ces plateformes ont affiché de fausses déclarations attribuées à l’émir qatari, cheikh Tamin ben Hamad Khalifa Al-Thani, dans lesquelles il faisait l’éloge du Hamas et surtout de l’Iran, l’ennemi juré des pays du Golfe.
L’opération s’est déroulée le 24 mai, soit peu de temps après la tournée du président américain Donald Trump dans les pays du Golfe. A cette occasion, l’Arabie saoudite et ses alliés n’ont pas manqué de rappeler qu’ils considéraient l’Iran comme un « facteur de déstabilisation » dans la région en raison de son « interventionnisme » dans plusieurs pays notamment la Syrie, l’Irak et le Yémen. Dans son discours à Riyad le 21 mai, Donald Trump a fait part du même diagnostic, appelant « toutes les nations de conscience » à « travailler ensemble pour isoler l’Iran ».
Citant ces fausses déclarations de l’émir du Qatar, l’Arabie saoudite, les Emirats arabes unis, Bahreïn et l’Egypte ont interdit les médias qataris, puis imposé des sanctions diplomatiques dès le 5 juin. Doha a déjà averti ses voisins que ses plateformes avaient été piratées. Les Qataris ont d’ailleurs ouvert une enquête, toujours en cours, et n’ont pour l’instant désigné aucun coupable. De son côté, Abou Dabi réfute toute tentative de cyberattaque suite à l’article du Washington Post.
Ces révélations surviennent alors que, depuis plusieurs mois, des e-mails hackés de l’ambassadeur des Emirats arabes unis à Washington et publiés par l’organisation pro-qatari GlobalLeaks, démontraient la détermination d’Abou Dabi de rallier les Etats-Unis à sa cause dans sa querelle avec Doha.
Ambassador Slammed Donald Trump Amid UAE Campaign To Isolate Qatar | HuffPost
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yousef-al-otaiba-emails-trump_us_59358e71e4b013c48169d5dc?section=us
WASHINGTON ― Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the U.S. and a confidant of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, repeatedly criticized President Donald Trump in private correspondence last year ― including with officials loyal to President Barack Obama ― emails obtained by HuffPost show.
Otaiba, one of the most powerful diplomats in Washington, figures in an unfolding regional crisis centered on U.S. partner nation Qatar, which hosts America’s largest military base in the region. The UAE and three other U.S.-aligned Middle East governments ratcheted up a simmering dispute with Qatar on Sunday night when they cut diplomatic and transportation ties to the Gulf nation over its support of the transnational Muslim Brotherhood and alleged assistance to Iran-backed militants around the region.
The Trump administration has not taken a formal position on the issue. Many in Trump’s orbit agree with the UAE on the need to combat forces that Qatar supports in the region, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood movement. The UAE has designated the group a terrorist organization and pushed for the U.S. to do the same, a step counterterrorism researchers say would be controversial and risky.
The leaked emails, which show Otaiba’s comments during a yearlong campaign to discredit Qatar in the U.S., threaten the UAE’s hope to win official American blessing for its pressure campaign against the Qataris. Trump is notoriously thin-skinned: He has banned people who publicly criticized him from his team (including GOP consigliere Elliott Abrams, a fellow Qatar skeptic who is friends with Otaiba) and seems unable to get over slights even years after they occur. And his administration already seems disinclined to pick a side. Top officials like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis have emphasized the importance of resolving the dispute.
OPEC’s LNG Giant Keeps Exporting Gas and Oil as Saudis Cut Ties - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/saudi-led-isolation-of-lng-giant-doesn-t-stop-gas-or-oil-exports
Qatar, the world’s biggest seller of liquefied natural gas, can still access shipping routes to deliver oil and gas to buyers after Saudi Arabia and other neighboring states barred the emirate from exporting through their territorial waters.
State producer Qatargas told Japan’s Jera Co. that it would keep supplying LNG as normal in spite of the Saudi-led severing of diplomatic ties with Qatar, Jera spokesman Atsuo Sawaki said by phone. Jera is Japan’s biggest buyer of Qatari LNG under long-term contracts, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The escalation of tensions in the energy-rich Persian Gulf probably won’t disrupt LNG supplies to Qatar’s main customers in Asia, according to Robin Mills, head of Dubai-based consultant Qamar Energy. “In principle Qatar should still be able to export via its own waters, Iran and Oman,” Mills said.
[…]
Aside from sending LNG and oil by ship, Qatar exports natural gas through a pipeline operated by Dolphin Energy, which is owned by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development Co., Total SA and Occidental Petroleum Corp. The link supplies gas to the U.A.E. and Oman and can send 3.2 billion cubic feet per day, though it only uses about two-thirds of that capacity.
Gas continues to flow normally through the Dolphin pipeline to the U.A.E. and Oman, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. There is no sign that supplies will be cut, they said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
A potential shutdown of the pipeline would cause a “severe problem” in the U.A.E. as demand for electricity peaks in the summer, Mills said. But he played down the likelihood that either country would halt supplies due to the hardship this would cause the U.A.E. and the damage it would inflict on Qatar’s reputation as a reliable energy provider.
La traduction de la déclaration officielle du MAÉ du Qatar : Qatar regrets the decision by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and UAE to sever relations
▻http://www.qatarliving.com/forum/news/posts/qatar-regrets-decision-saudi-arabia-bahrain-uae-sever-relations
Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs published the following Press release on its official website mofa.gov.qa and pertains to several countries severing relations with Qatar.
(Bizarre la photo du drapeau sur « Qatar Living » : c’est tout de même plus rouge que violet. Ça ressemble plus au drapeau de Bahreïn que du Qatar.)
Hacked Emails Show Top UAE Diplomat Coordinating With Pro-Israel Think Tank Against Iran
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/06/03/hacked-emails-show-top-uae-diplomat-coordinating-with-pro-israel-neoco
THE EMAILS PROVIDED so far to the The Intercept show a growing relationship between the United Arab Emirates and the pro-Israel, neoconservative think tank called the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
On the surface, the alliance should be surprising, as the UAE does not even recognize Israel. But the two countries have worked together in the past against their common adversary, Iran.
On March 10 of this year, FDD CEO Mark Dubowitz authored an email to both the UAE’s ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al-Otaiba, and FDD Senior Counselor John Hannah — a former deputy national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney — with the subject line “Target list of companies investing in Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia.”
“Dear, Mr. Ambassador,” Dubowitz wrote. “The attached memorandum details companies listed by country which are doing business with Iran and also have business with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. This is a target list for putting these companies to a choice, as we have discussed.”
Explaining the Bangladeshi migrant surge into Italy
Seemingly out of nowhere, Bangladeshi nationals have become the second-largest group arriving in Italy behind Nigerians, on a route more commonly used by migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. This IRIN investigation from #Bangladesh and Italy gets behind the rising numbers and looks at the motivations and pressures underlying this unexpected new trend.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2017/06/01/explaining-bangladeshi-migrant-surge-italy
#migrations #Italie #migrants_bangladais
A passage to Italy: The Libyan connection
An average of 30-40 Bangladeshis illegally enter Libya on a daily basis to cross the Mediterranean to Italy by boat
Why are there fewer Bangladeshi migrants arriving in Italy in recent months?
In early 2017, Bangladeshis were the second largest nationality among the irregular migrants arriving in Italy from Libya, accounting for one out of every eight migrants taking the Central Mediterranean sea route. In recent months, they made up barely 4 per cent of all arrivals.
Frontex analysts tried to answer the question why nationals of Bangladesh, unlike nationals of other Asian countries with similar push factors, were able to make this journey in such numbers and why this happened almost exclusively on the Central Mediterranean route.
An analysis of intelligence gathered from migrants, as well as data from open sources, revealed a system of facilitated illegal migration based on work visas issued by Bangladeshi recruitment agencies.
Most of the interviewed Bangladeshi migrants, who continue to arrive to Italy from Libya, claimed to have travelled to Libya directly from Bangladesh, transiting Gulf countries or Turkey.
With a work visa in hand, the Bangladeshi migrants flew to Libya through the United Arab Emirates, Istanbul or Qatar. They paid some EUR 7000 for the trip to Libya.
After arriving in Libya, the migrants were immediately taken to safehouses by local people smugglers, who would make arrangements for the sea crossing. The same networks later provide facilitation services to the migrants on their way to the EU. Their passports taken away, the Bangladeshis were provided with temporary employment, at serious risk of abuse, while the preparations for the onward trips were made.
After more than 8000 Bangladeshis reached Italy in the first half of the year, their numbers fell considerably. This sharp drop in the number of Bangladeshi migrants could be linked to measures taken both in Bangladesh and Libya.
In May, Bangladeshi authorities stopped issuing work visas to Libya and announced that those, who will still travel to the country are assumed to do so illegally. Law enforcement agencies have stepped up their efforts to stop human trafficking and organised awareness campaigns to discourage people from travelling to Libya.
Another factor was a ban introduced by Libyan authorities issuing visas-on-arrival to people from Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Syria and Bangladesh at the Tripoli airport.
The reduced number of Bangladeshis arriving in Italy is also linked to the different factors reducing migration from Libya.
▻http://frontex.europa.eu/feature-stories/why-are-there-fewer-bangladeshi-migrants-arriving-in-italy-in-recent-
#visa #dissuasion #visas #aéroport #Tripoli
Hack, fake story expose real tensions between Qatar, Gulf
▻https://apnews.com/f5da3293be18401a954d48249f75394e
While Qatar quickly denied the comments attributed to ruling emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Saudi-owned satellite channels repeatedly aired them throughout the day Wednesday. The incident revived suspicions that exploded into the open three years when several Gulf nations pulled their ambassadors from Qatar over similar worries about its politics.
The alleged hack happened early on Wednesday morning and hours later, the website of the Qatar News Agency still was not accessible.
The fake article quoted Sheikh Tamim as calling Iran an “Islamic power” and saying Qatar’s relations with Israel were “good” during a military ceremony.
Online footage of Qatari state television’s nightly newscast from Tuesday showed clips of Sheikh Tamim at the ceremony with the anchor not mentioning the comments, though a scrolling ticker at the bottom of the screen had the alleged fake remarks. They included calling Hamas “the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people,” as well as saying Qatar had “strong relations” with Iran and the United States.
“Iran represents a regional and Islamic power that cannot be ignored and it is unwise to face up against it,” the ticker read at one point. “It is a big power in the stabilization of the region.”
The hackers also purportedly took over the news agency’s Twitter feed and posted alleged quotes from Qatar’s foreign minister accusing Arab nations of fomenting a plot against his country. A series of tweets said Qatar had ordered its ambassadors to withdraw from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates over the plot. The tweets were later deleted.
Guerre des ondes entre l’Egypte et le Qatar - Moyen-Orient - RFI
▻http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20170525-guerre-ondes-entre-egypte-qatar-arabie-saoudite-emirats-arabe-unis
L’Egypte a décidé de bloquer 21 sites internet d’information arabe par un pare-feu. Une mesure qui a aussi été prise par l’Arabie saoudite et les Emirats arabes unis. Les sites visés sont liés directement ou indirectement au Qatar. Des mesures qui sont la conséquence d’une nouvelle guerre des ondes entre l’axe tripartite Egypte-Arabie-Emirats et le Qatar.
Will Israel be a casualty of U.S.-Russian tension after Trump’s missile attack? - Syria - Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/.premium-1.782265
Putin might want to prove that an attack on Russia’s ally has implications for America’s ally. But Israel needs coordination with Russia over Syria’s skies
Zvi Bar’el Apr 08, 2017 7:30 AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. AP
Analysis Syria strike marks complete turnaround in Trump’s policy
Analysis Trump challenges Putin with first Western punishment for Assad’s massacres since start of Syria war
Russia: U.S. strike in Syria ’one step away from military clashes with Russia’
A military strike was warranted but the likelihood was low − so U.S. President Donald Trump surprised everyone, as usual. Russian President Valdimir Putin was furious, Syrian President Bashar Assad screamed, but the 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired by the USS Ross and USS Porter weren’t just another tug-of-war or show of strength.
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Without a UN Security Council resolution and without exhausting diplomatic chatter, the U.S. strike on the air force base near Homs slapped Assad and Putin in the face, sending a message to many other countries along the way.
The military response was preceded by a foreign-policy revolution in which Trump announced that Assad can no longer be part of the solution. Only a few days earlier, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced that Assad’s removal was no longer an American priority.
Did American priorities change as a result of the chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun near Idlib, and will Trump now work to bring down Assad? Not yet. Will Trump renew the military aid to the rebel militias so they can fight the regime? Far from it.
Donald Trump after U.S. missiles strike Assad regime airbase in Syria, April 7, 2017JIM WATSON/AFP
>> Read top analyses on U.S. strike in Syria: Trump challenges Putin, punishes Assad for first time | Russia, Iran, denounce strike, Saudi Arabia praises it | Trump’s move could backfire | Trump’s 48-hour policy turnaround <<
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The American attack also provides no answers to the tactical questions. The Tomahawk missiles didn’t hit the warehouses where Assad’s chemical weapons may be stored, but rather the air force base where the planes that dropped the weapons took off.
It’s possible the chemical weapons are still safely stored away. The logic behind the attack on the air force base is understandable, but does it hint that Trump won’t hesitate to attack the person who gave the order and the president who gave the initial approval? For now the answers aren’t clear.
Trump did on a large scale what Israel has been doing on a smaller scale when it attacked weapons convoys leaving Syria for Hezbollah. Unless Washington decides to surprise us once again, it won’t return to being a power on the Syrian front, it won’t steal the show from Russia. Diplomatic efforts, as far as there are any, will be made without active American participation.
So the immediate and important achievement for Trump is an American political one: He tarred and feathered Barack Obama and proved to the Americans that his United States isn’t chicken. Trump, who demanded that Obama receive Congress’ approval before attacking Syria in 2013, has now painted Congress into a corner, too. Who would dare criticize the attack, even if it wasn’t based on “the proper procedures,” and even though the United States didn’t face a clear and present danger?
U.S. envoy to the UN Nikki Haley holds photographs of victims during a UN Security Council meeting on Syria, April 5, 2017. SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS
The question is whether as a result of the American cruise missile attack, Russia and Syria will opt for a war of revenge in order to prove that the attack didn’t change anything in their military strategy against the rebels and the civilian population. They don’t feel they need chemical weapons to continuously and effectively bomb Idlib and its suburbs. They don’t need to make the entire world man the moral barricades if good results can be achieved through legitimate violence, as has been going on for six years.
Such a decision is in the hands of Putin, who despite recent rifts with Assad is still committed to stand alongside the Syrian president against the American attack. This isn’t just defending a friend but preserving Russia’s honor. As recently as Thursday, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia’s support for Assad was unconditional and “it is not correct to say that Moscow can convince Mr. Assad to do whatever is wanted in Moscow.” But the Kremlin has said such things before, every time Russia has been blamed for Assad’s murderous behavior.
Read Russia’s response to the attack very carefully. Peskov called it “aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made-up up pretext.” He didn’t embrace Assad and didn’t describe the attack as one that harmed an ally. And he didn’t directly attack Trump − just as Trump didn’t hold Putin responsible for the original chemical weapons attack.
It seems that despite the loud talk, which included a Russian warning about U.S.-Russian relations, neither country is keen to give Assad the ability to upset the balance between the two superpowers.
The only practical step taken so far by Russia − suspending aerial coordination between the countries over Syria based on the understandings signed in October 2015 − could turn out a double-edged sword if coalition planes start running into Russian ones. It’s still not clear if this suspension includes the coordination with Israel, which isn’t part of the Russian understandings with the United States.
But Putin is angry about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments about Assad, and might want to prove to Trump that an attack on Russia’s ally has implications for America’s ally. So he could freeze or cancel the agreements with Israel regarding attacks inside Syria.
This would mean the war in Syria puts Israel in the diplomatic crossfire too, not just the military one. It could find itself in a conflict between Trump’s policies and its needs for coordination with Russia.
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Found : Quite possibly the most sophisticated Android espionage app ever
▻https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/found-quite-possibly-the-most-sophisticated-android-espionage-app-ever
Discovery of Pegasus for Android comes 8 months after similar iOS app was found. Researchers have uncovered one of the most advanced espionage apps ever written for the Android mobile operating system. They found the app after it had infected a few dozen handsets. Pegasus for Android is the companion app to Pegasus for iOS, a full-featured espionage platform that was discovered in August infecting the iPhone of a political dissident located in the United Arab Emirates. Researchers from (...)
#Apple #Google #smartphone #Android #iPhone #malware #écoutes #surveillance
#Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel/2017/04/03/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html
The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder #Erik_Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.
The meeting took place around Jan. 11 — nine days before Trump’s inauguration — in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said. Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.
Though Prince had no formal role with the Trump campaign or transition team, he presented himself as an unofficial envoy for Trump to high-ranking Emiratis involved in setting up his meeting with the Putin confidant, according to the officials, who did not identify the Russian.
Erik Prince: Trump’s Knight in America’s New Crusade? | The Oakland Institute
▻https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/erik-prince-trumps-knight-press-release
Prince’s post Blackwater maneuvers – acquiring logistics capacity in Africa, the Mediterranean Region, and Asia, and networking with high-level individuals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to launch a private equity fund, Frontier Resource Group (FRG).
“According to our findings, Prince’s connections range from top Emirati businessmen to Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Court,” said Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute. “The first investor in the Frontier Resources Group was a company linked to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the brother of Abu Dhabi’s ruler itself,” she added.
The UAE is a country where both Trump and Prince have business interests and unsurprisingly was not included among seven predominantly Muslim nations impacted by Trump’s travel ban. The UAE is also a key US ally in the wars that are raging in the Muslim world.
The most toxic country in the world | The Eco Experts
▻http://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/most-toxic-countries?_ga=1.9054387.702319549.1486161397
Je ne sais pas ce que ça vaut mais j’avoue que je n’avais pas pensé à ce problème sous cet angle : en tête des pays les plus pollués du monde, les monarchies pétrolières du Golfe. Dans l’ordre : Arabie saoudite, Koweït, Bahreïn, Qatar, Emirats, Oman (Tuménistan, Libye, Kazakhstan et Trinidad pour la suite du palmarès).
Saudi Arabia is the most toxic country in the world, having the highest recorded air pollution, surpassing India and even China.
Neighbouring oil-rich countries including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) dominate the top 10 most toxic countries in the world, and have some of the lowest renewable energy production despite having an ideal climate - low rainfall and prolonged daylight hours - for solar energy.
The research also shows that countries in the Middle East have some of the highest number of deaths attributable to air pollution; Turkmenistan witnesses 108 deaths per 100,000 every year.
▻http://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/sites/default/files/filemanager/most-toxic-countries-small-615
Al-Akhbar describes UAE-Saudi conflict playing out in Yemen | The Mideastwire Blog
▻https://mideastwire.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/al-akhbar-describes-uae-saudi-conflict-playing-out-in-yemen/?fb_action_ids=1037058189733565&fb_action_types=news.publishe
Yes, it is from the Anti-KSA monarchy daily Al-Akhbar, but nevertheless an important piece about intra-GCC conflicts: UAE vs. Saudi Arabia, with the emphasis on the anti-Wahhabi aspect of the conflict. Translated today by our Mideastwire.com (for a free trial, email info@mideastwire.com).
On February 21, the Al-Akhbar daily newspaper carried the following report: “The UAE views the southern and eastern governorates of Yemen as a new arena to enhance its religious, anti-Wahhabi methods… The competing between the “Gulf brothers” is not limited to the military authority, the economic weight and the political status. The competing exceeds all that to touch on the religious and spiritual leadership of the Muslims…
“This is how the situation currently looks like between Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The history of the hostility between the two countries dates back to 1971, the year that saw the unification of the princedoms at the western coast of the Gulf. Back then, the Al-Nahyan family was worried since the Al-Saud family had crossed their eastern borders and were threatening the oil rich princedom of Abu Dhabi. Since that time, the UAE has been trying to demolish the self-proclaimed Saudi leadership of the Islamic world…
“This strategy started to escalate following the September 11 events in light of the anger against Al-Riyadh felt at the level of the western public opinion. The UAE saw this as an excellent opportunity to pull the rug from under its neighbor’s feet and to enhance its own presence under the slogan of “moderation” and “confronting extremism…” The UAE worked on attracting sheikhs and scholars known for their “moderation” and their affiliation to Al-Azhar. The polarization reached a pinnacle in July 2014 upon the establishment of the “Muslim Council of Elders” in Abu Dhabi under Al-Azhar’s Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayeb…
“The UAE is working today in South Yemen based on this same strategy… The available pieces of information indicate that Abu Dhabi’s agents are enticing the southern sheikhs to travel to Al-Azhar by securing all the necessary financial, physical, and logistical facilitations to them with the aim of restricting the Saudi-affiliated circles and preventing their ability to act on the religious call level…
Saudi Arabia on Offensive With Attack-Minded Military Splurge
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/saudi-arabia-on-offensive-with-attack-minded-military-splurge
“Traditionally, military capabilities in the region have been focused on territorial defense,” IHS analyst Reed Foster said in the report. Now Mideast states are acquiring equipment that will allow them to build “the kind of capabilities required to conduct operations beyond their borders.”
Saudi Arabia’s fleet of Panavia Tornado ground-attack aircraft and the 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jet fighters ordered from #BAE_Systems Plc are among likely beneficiaries of upgrades intended to project power over a distance. In dollar terms, the oil-rich nation had the fourth-biggest defense budget last year behind the U.S., China and India, after the pound’s collapse following last June’s Brexit vote relegated the U.K. to fifth spot from third.
Both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will “start to spend heavily” over the next two years as the potential threat from Iran increases, with the former set to return to budget growth this year, IHS projects.
2015 : un tournant dans les dépenses militaires mondiales
▻http://www.lesechos.fr/05/04/2016/lesechos.fr/021818536227_2015---un-tournant-dans-les-depenses-militaires-mondiales.htm
A la troisième place du classement des 15 Etats qui dépensent le plus pour leur armée, le Sipri affiche une surprise : l’Arabie saoudite (87,2 milliards) aurait détrôné la Russie (66,4 milliards) l’an dernier. [...] Au cours des dix dernières années, les dépenses militaires de l’Arabie saoudite ont augmenté de 97% pour atteindre le record de 13,7 % du PNB du pays, quand celles de la Russie ont cru de 91 % et représente 5,4 % du PNB national. Soit le même pourcentage que l’effort consenti par Israël.
Two killed in attack on Saudi warship off Yemen | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/yemen-security-saudi-idUSL5N1FK5UC
Jan 30: Houthi militants attacked a Saudi warship with three boats off the western coast of Yemen on Monday, causing an explosion that killed two crew members and injured three others, Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
“A Saudi frigate on patrol west of the port city of Hodeida was hit by a terrorist attack from three suicide boats belonging to the Houthi militias,” SPA said.
In October a Saudi-led force in Yemen said it rescued passengers from a vessel being used by the United Arab Emirates military that was attacked by Houthi fighters in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane.
J’ai mis le dernier paragraphe de la brève juste pour constater la « neutralité » du rappel des actions des vilains terroristes…
versions contradictoires
Yemen conflict : Rebels in deadly attack on Saudi warship - BBC News
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38808345
A coalition statement said three Houthi “suicide boats” had approached a Saudi frigate west of Hudaydah on Monday.
One of the boats collided with the rear of the frigate and exploded, causing a fire, the statement added.
However, a rebel-controlled news agency cited a source as saying the warship had been hit by a guided missile.
[…]
“The targeting of this warship comes within the framework of the legal right of Yemen to defend the homeland and its sovereignty,” the source added.
Coalition and pro-government forces are also currently attempting to advance up the west coast in an attempt to drive the rebels out of Hudaydah and other ports.
The coalition warned that the Houthis’ use of Hudaydah “as a launching pad for terrorist operations is a serious development that would affect the international navigation and the flow of humanitarian and medical assistance into the port”.
The coalition’s naval blockade and the wider conflict have caused a humanitarian crisis in Yemen, leaving more than seven million people severely food insecure.
par Fox News
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon believes attack on Saudi frigate meant for US warship | Fox News
▻http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/31/exclusive-pentagon-believes-attack-on-saudi-frigate-meant-for-us-warship.ht
The Iranian-backed suicide attack targeting a Saudi frigate off the coast of Yemen on Monday may have been meant for an American warship, two defense officials told Fox News.
The incident in question occurred in the southern Red Sea and was carried out by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Two Saudi sailors were killed and three were wounded. At first the ship was thought to have been struck by a missile.
But based on new analysis of a video showing the attack, American intelligence officials now believe this was, in fact, a suicide bomber whose small boat rammed the side of the Saudi vessel.
In the audio heard on the video, a voice narrating the attack shouts in Arabic, “Allahu akbar [God is great], death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews and victory for Islam.”
U.S. defense analysts believe those behind the attack either thought the bomber was striking an American warship or that this was a “dress rehearsal” similar to the attack on the USS Cole, according to one official.
“Iranian-backed”... On s’éclate...
Tout puissant #fox_news
Je ne suis pas expert, mais de fait à 0:08, ça ressemble plus à du persan qu’à de l’arabe. Après, pas de doute, c’est de l’arabe (et c’est ce qui est traduit dans les articles)
Former Pakistan army chief to head Saudi-led military alliance: Pakistani media
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-saudi-idUSKBN14S0MS
A statement carried by Saudi state news agency SPA in December 2015 said the new coalition would have 34 members, though more have joined since then. It also said the coalition would be based in Riyadh to “coordinate and support military operations” against terrorism. Little has been heard of it since then.
The states it listed as joining the new coalition included Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and several African nations.
It did not include Shi’ite Muslim Iran and its allies Syria and Iraq, leading to speculation that it could become a potential Sunni bloc against Iran, a rival of Sunni Saudi Arabia for influence across the Arab world. Tehran and Riyadh are ranged on opposite sides in proxy conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
Iranian Cargo Ship Reportedly Destroyed by Rocket Off Yemen – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/iranian-cargo-ship-reportedly-destroyed-in-rocket-attack-off-yemen-reports
Seven people are believed to have been killed in an apparent rocket attack on a Iranian cargo ship in the Red Sea off Yemen, Pakistani sources are reporting.
The Ansar Burney Trust, a human and civil rights organization in Pakistan, posted pictures of the alleged attack on its Facebook page. The organization said, citing its sources, that the Iranian-flagged cargo ship MV Jouya-8 was hit by a rocket and destroyed off Yemen.
All seven missing are reportedly Pakistani nationals. One person is believed to have survived.
“Ansar Burney Trust International has received information through its sources that an unfortunate ship namely “MV JOUYA-8” has been hit by a rocket in Sea of Yemen and reportedly destroyed… so far one Pakistani has managed to survive some how who has managed to swim towards some island,” Ansar Burney said in a statement posted to its Facebook page.
The Pakistani news agency Geo News said the attack occurred Wednesday night as the ship was underway from Egypt to Dubai.
MV JOYA 8 sank after missile attack, 7 crew died, Yemen - UPDATE
▻https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2016/16507/mv-joya-sank-after-missile-attack-7-crew-died-yeme
UPDATE Dec 23: according to Ansar Burney Trust International, vessel’s name is JOYA 8 (IMO 8844696), vessel was hit by rocket in Red Sea off Yemen coast. Confirmed 7 crew died or missing, 1 swam to the shore.
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Seven dead off Yemen as rocket sinks Iranian ship - Splash 247
▻http://splash247.com/seven-dead-off-yemen-rocket-sinks-iranian-ship
Growing fears of attacks in the area has seen the UK deploy its most advanced warship off the coast of Yemen.
With a Teekay LNG carrier and a number of naval ships coming under attack in recent weeks and concern growing that terrorists are planning more suicide attempts in the narrow Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the HMS Daring was sent last month to help commercial ships transit the area.
The strait links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden.
Kevin Doherty from Nexus Consulting told Splash last month there is a significant risk to all ships around Yemen from rockets, and that risk seems to be indiscriminate, being fired at any ship of opportunity.
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Britain secretly sends warship to hold oil route | News | The Times & The Sunday Times
▻http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-secretly-sends-warship-to-hold-oil-route-rvhhldwlw
Britain has quietly deployed its most advanced warship off the coast of Yemen to protect a crucial shipping lane from the threat of Iranian-backed missile attacks, The Times has learnt.
HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer, has been diverted from joining a mission in the Gulf to patrol the Bab al-Mandeb strait after three US warships and a United Arab Emirates vessel were targeted in the area.
Tout va bien, c’est le HMS Daring qui va dans ces eaux chaudes…
►https://seenthis.net/messages/498430
La photo que j’ai placée, venant de la dépêche, est celle de l’attaque d’un navire égyptien en Méditerranée en juillet 2015.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGq6mCsE9U
Gros doutes exprimés ici
Cargo ship sunk off Yemen - UNCONFIRMED. - Ships Nostalgia
▻http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/showthread.php?p=2315721
There are a couple of ’problems’ with this report:
• The vessel was last reported on AIS, in the position of the claimed attack, on 11th November. - The incident supposedly happened on 22nd December.
• The Picture used to illustrate the report is the same (discredited) picture used 18months ago supposedly showing an Egyptian warship being attacked.
• The main source, Ansar Burney Trust, have nothing on their main website.
All other media sources refer to the Ansar Burney Trust. Some claim that the missile was launched from an aircraft.- There has been no Official confirmation.
In War the first casualty is always the truth....
Ansar Burney Trust International est une organisation humanitaire pakistanaise.
▻http://ansarburney.org
La photo m’avait fait tiquer du fait de son improbabilité ainsi que le fait que peu d’articles ont été consacré à la question. D’ailleurs, l’article originel mentionne bien son incapacité à vérifier de manière indépendante l’information.
British made cluster bombs used by Saudi-led forces in Yemen, Government research shows - Mirror Online
▻http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-made-cluster-bombs-used-9483580
British-made cluster bombs have been used by Saudi Arabia-led forces in Yemen, Government research has indicated.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is set to make a statement on the analysis in the House of Commons this afternoon.
Cluster bombs are made up of dozens of small explosives, which deliver widespread and indiscriminate damage. The sale of cluster munitions is illegal.
The Government said it takes the allegations “very seriously” and has raised them with the Saudi-led coalition.
In June, the Ministry of Defence denied British-made cluster bombs discovered in Yemen by Amnesty International had been dropped by Saudi-led forces.
Mais, promis juré, il ne le fera plus…
Saudi-led coalition to stop using British-made cluster munitions in Yemen | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-idUSKBN1481S5
“The government of Saudi Arabia confirms that it has decided to stop the use of cluster munitions of the type BL-755 and informed the United Kingdom government of that,” said the Saudi statement, carried by state news agency SPA.
It was the first Saudi confirmation of the coalition’s use of the cluster munitions.
Saudi Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri told Arabiya TV: “BL 755 bombs are used in a limited way and not in residential areas. We do not use the bombs in areas populated by civilians.”
[…]
Assiri said the coalition, which is battling Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen, had not violated international law because it had not signed the cluster munitions convention.
Fallon stressed that Britain had sold the munitions to Riyadh in the 1980s, long before the 2008 convention.
[…]
The BL-755 bomb, manufactured in Britain in the 1970s, is known to be in the stockpiles of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Amnesty said.
Et allons donc: Iran’s attempted genocide of the Sunni Arabs
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20161209-irans-attempted-genocide-of-the-sunni-arabs
The military assaults against Mosul in Iraq and Aleppo in Syria are not as disparate and separate as people imagine. Yes, the cities are located in different countries. Yes, the Iraqi Security Forces are fighting Daesh militants while what is left of the Syrian Arab Army is fighting a collection of Syrian opposition factions which have united under the banner of the “Army of Aleppo”. Yes, Russia is involved in the destruction of Syria whilst the United States is involved in the destruction of Iraq. But be under no illusion, Iran is the one constant in both battles, as well as being the primary beneficiary; it is attempting to destroy the Sunni Arabs.
#plus_c'est_gros… (C’est surtout, typiquement, de l’excitation sectaire.)
Bizarrement, la Turquie, pourtant grand protecteur régional des sunnites (de toute ethnie…), n’est mentionnée nulle part dans l’article.
Si tu vois les autres articles du même auteur sur MEMO, ça te semblera sans doute moins « bizarre » :
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/6-author/talha-abdulrazaq
Intéressant… J’aime bien celui-là :
Saudi supports terrorism ? Look who’s talking, Iran
Sinon, sa fiche de doctorant à l’Université d’Exeter
▻http://eprofile.exeter.ac.uk/tallhaabdulrazaq
et celle de son superviseur
Professor Gareth Stansfield - Arab and Islamic Studies - University of Exeter
▻http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/staff/stansfield
Gareth Stansfield is Professor of Middle East Politics and the Al-Qasimi Chair of Arab Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, where he was between 2010-2015 the Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), standing down for research leave between 2015 and 2019.
et, donc, pour terminer
Al Qasimi - Wikipedia
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Qasimi
The Al Qasimi are one of the six ruling families of the United Arab Emirates and rule two of the seven emirates: Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah.
The 5m² Maid’s Room: Lebanon’s Racist, Gendered Architecture — Failed Architecture
►https://www.failedarchitecture.com/the-5m2-maids-room-lebanons-racist-gendered-architecture
Pick any mid- to upper-class residential project in Lebanon and you will more often than not find the floor plan featuring a small room with the label of “maid’s room.” Through ubiquity, this label and the architecture it signifies have long passed the stage of normalization not only in Lebanon but also in other parts of the Arab world such as Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia where middle and upper class families rely on cheap manual labor in the form of predominantly female foreign workers to maintain households. The Lebanese case, however, serves as one where a) land per capita is one of the lowest in the world and b) a neoliberal construction law that is deliberately relaxed in order to favor the monetary profit of the developer at the expense of the quality of the built environment. Private apartment blocks and bourgeois villas are primary sites where a veritable combination of local taste and maximum land exploitation, with a backdrop of racist law, results in workers’ spaces that are at best substandard and often gravely oppressive. In light of recent and ongoing demonstrations by domestic workers in Lebanon and of their growing struggle to push the Lebanese government to ratify the International Labor Organization Convention 189 and abolish the Kafala system, it is imperative to call out certain laws and practices in contemporary Lebanese architecture as concrete manifestations of institutional racism against foreign domestic workers, in both the public and private sectors. Within Foucault’s more general and elusive concept of heterotopia, I will argue that the maid’s room qualifies as a subgroup, the ‘heterotopia of deviation.’
Al-Arabiya manager accused of being bribed by royals
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20161123-al-arabiya-manager-accused-of-being-bribed-by-royals
Another document, leaked from August 2015, showed that Al-Dakhil’s worth had risen to nearly 94 million Saudi riyals ($25 million), 11 times higher than it was only six months earlier, before his appointment.
Around that same period, Al-Dakhil, who is also close to the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Zayid purchased a property in Dubai for 17 million UAE Dirhams ($4.6 million).
Middle East Observer has also received documents that Al-Dakhil was bribed by the UAE regime between 2012-2014, adding that he had been “groomed” prior to his appointment at Al-Arabiya.
British government uses aid money to back oil in UNESCO site
▻http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2016/11/21/british-government-foreign-office-surestream-unesco
British officials are using aid money to support oil drilling in a World Heritage Site in Africa, according to an Energydesk investigation.
Government documents, obtained through freedom of information (FOI), reveal that the Foreign Office pledged thousands of pounds in aid to support drilling in Lake Malawi, where the UN warns that a spill could wreck the fragile ecosystem.
UK oil company Surestream has a stake in two oil blocks overlapping the lake, while United Arab Emirates firm RAK Gas holds the rights to explore in the UN protected zone itself.
UN environmental agency UNESCO warned in a previous statement that: “An accidental spill anywhere in the lake would pose a potentially severe risk to the integrity of the entire ecosystem, including the aquatic zone and shoreline of the property.”
Pour rappel : ficher les musulmans aux États-Unis, ça a déjà été fait : National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS)
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Entry-Exit_Registration_System
Certain non-citizens who were in the United States prior to September 10, 2002, have been required to register in person at an INS office.[3] This procedure is required of males over the age of sixteen who entered the United States legally on particular types of visa (primarily student, work, and tourist) from certain countries. Countries were named on four occasions:
Group 1: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan or Syria
Group 2: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Group 3: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
Group 4: Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait
[…]
Immigrant rights advocates criticized the program, particularly the domestic portion of it, for profiling on the basis of ethnicity and religion as well as generally undermining immigrants’ rights. They noted that 24 of the 25 countries included on the list are predominantly Muslim, while all of the countries are in Asia or Africa. Some national security experts said that the program was likely to be ineffective.[citation needed] Given the large numbers involved and the nature of the requirements, they argued, it was unlikely to find any members of Al Qaeda. NSEERS was probed in the documentary film “Aliens Among Us” by Martina Radwan, for the devastating effect it had on immigrant families of Arab origin.[4]