U.S. Bombed Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia in 2016 - NBC News
▻http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636
The U.S. dropped an average of 72 bombs every day — the equivalent of three an hour — in 2016, according to an analysis of American strikes around the world.
Pentagon: Chinese naval ship seized an unmanned U.S. underwater vehicle in South China Sea
A Chinese naval ship seized an underwater naval drone that was being used by the U.S. Navy to test water conditions in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said Friday.
La #Chine saisit une sonde sous-marine de la marine américaine | JDM
▻http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/12/16/la-chine-saisit-une-sonde-sous-marine-de-la-marine-americaine
WASHINGTON | La Chine a saisi une sonde sous-marine appartenant à la marine américaine qui évoluait en eau internationale de la mer de Chine méridionale, a affirmé vendredi un responsable américain de la défense à l’AFP.
« Elle a été saisie » par la Chine au large des Philippines, a indiqué ce responsable sous couvert d’anonymat.
La sonde était utilisée pour mesurer la salinité et la température de l’eau, des informations cruciales en particulier pour la flotte des sous-marins américains. Elle a été saisie sous les yeux de ses pilotes.
Selon ce responsable, la sonde était opérée par des civils bien qu’elle appartienne à la Navy.
China’s Navy seizes American underwater drone in South China Sea | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-drone-idUSKBN14526J
The seizure by the Chinese Navy will add to concerns about China’s growing military presence and aggressive posture in the disputed South China Sea, including its militarization of maritime outposts.
China Snatches Underwater Drone from Military Sealift Command Ship ’Bowditch’ in South China Sea – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/china-takes-underwater-drone-from-military-sealift-command-ship-bowditch-i
The drone was part of an unclassified program to collect oceanographic data including salinity, temperature and clarity of the water, the U.S. official added. The data can help inform U.S. military sonar data since such factors affect sound.
The USNS Bowditch, a U.S. Navy ship crewed by civilians that carries out oceanographic work, had already retrieved one of two of its drones, known as ocean gliders, when a Chinese Navy Dalang 3 class vessel took the second one.
Officials said the Bowditch was only 500 meters (yards) from the drone and, observing the Chinese intercede, used bridge-to-bridge communications to demand it be returned.
The Chinese ship acknowledged the communication but did not respond to the Bowditch’s demands, the Pentagon’s Davis said.
“The only thing they said after they were sailing off into the distance was: “we are returning to normal operations,” Davis said.
Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pentagon-buries-evidence-of-125-billion-in-bureaucratic-waste/2016/12/05/e0668c76-9af6-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html
Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office bureaucracy more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power. But after the project documented far more wasteful spending than expected, senior defense officials moved swiftly to kill it by discrediting and suppressing the results.
#Made_in_america (compilation uniquement à partir de sources MSM)
The world’s best cyber army doesn’t belong to Russia
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/515937
The long history of the U.S. interfering with elections elsewhere
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/532933
Americans Claim Role in Yeltsin Win
▻http://articles.latimes.com/1996-07-09/news/mn-22423_1_boris-yeltsin
The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries
▻http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-elections-20161213-story.html
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries – it’s done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University.
That number doesn’t include military coups and regime change efforts following the election of candidates the U.S. didn’t like, notably those in Iran, Guatemala and Chile. Nor does it include general assistance with the electoral process, such as election monitoring.
Levin defines intervention as “a costly act which is designed to determine the election results [in favor of] one of the two sides.”
These acts, carried out in secret two-thirds of the time, include funding the election campaigns of specific parties, disseminating misinformation or propaganda, training locals of only one side in various campaigning or get-out-the-vote techniques, helping one side design their campaign materials, making public pronouncements or threats in favor of or against a candidate, and providing or withdrawing foreign aid.
Those Times the NSA Hacked America’s Allies
▻http://www.juancole.com/2017/01/hacked-americas-allies.html
Juan Cole n’a rien à voir avec les MSM, ses liens si.
Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/10/why-does-the-united-states-still-let-12-year-old-girls-get-married
In this way, U.S. lawmakers are strongly at odds with U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, released last year by the State Department, lists reducing child, early and forced marriage as a key goal. The strategy includes harsh words about marriage before 18, declaring it a “human rights abuse” that “produces devastating repercussions for a girl’s life, effectively ending her childhood” by forcing her “into adulthood and motherhood before she is physically and mentally mature.”
Le contraste entre les deux couvertures est frappant
U.S.-led forces appear to be using white phosphorus in populated areas in Iraq and Syria - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/605882
Les Etats-Unis auraient financé un réseau social pour déstabiliser Cuba
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/243735
Les Etats-Unis allergiques aux traités internationaux
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/606664
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history — and still gave him a hand.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/613086
CIA killed first PM of Pakistan
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/620766
Sujet à caution,
[Indonésie] The United States provided the special radio system so the Army could coordinate the killings over the vast archipelago.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/390703
The U.S. war crime North Korea won’t forget - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/621295
Deux psychologues du programme de torture de la CIA échappent à leur procès
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/623132
Harvard Business School’s Latest Case Study Looks at American Politics and Finds a Rigged System - Real Time Economics - WSJ
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/630455
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/417111
Alan Stevenson, un ancien analyste de l’armée, a ainsi confié devant les membres du Congrès que lorsqu’il travaillait dans la base de Quảng Trị au Nord du Vietnam, en 1969, il était chargé de lister les hôpitaux qui devaient être pris pour cibles par les Américains. « Et plus l’hôpital était important, mieux c’était. »
Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/637438
#chili et #opération_condor
Declassified Files Lay Bare U.S. Knowledge Of Mass Murders In Indonesia
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/638346
Watchdog: Troops say they were told to ignore Afghan child sex abuse | TheHill
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/645571
The Uncounted - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/645280
Les Etats-Unis avaient embauché, en pleine connaissance de cause, l’ingénieur en chef des armes chimiques de Hitler,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/169437
Ambros only served half of his prison sentence. After his release in 1951, he was whisked to the West to advise the U.S. Army on its own chemical weapons program — including Sarin.
Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights - POLITICO
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/655968
Et encore en-deçà de la vérité puisque la violation des droits humains n’est pas seulement tolérée par les Etats-Unis comme reconnu dans ce mémo, mais encouragée quand le règne de leurs alliés dictateurs est menacé.
Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/world/07doctors.html
Article de 2010
En français :
Quand les médecins de la CIA perfectionnaient les tortures
▻http://www.jeuneafrique.com/155595/societe/quand-les-m-decins-de-la-cia-perfectionnaient-les-tortures
Les médecins américains qui ont assisté aux interrogatoires de la CIA après le 11-Septembre ont contribué à affiner les méthodes de torture, une pratique qui s’apparente à de l’"expérimentation humaine", selon une ONG. Ces praticiens ont ensuite pu émettre des recommandations pour améliorer ces techniques « d’interrogatoire ».
The CIA Drug Connection Is as Old as the Agency - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/opinion/03iht-edlarry.html
Article de 1993
Allégations d’implication de la CIA dans le trafic de drogue — Wikipédia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%C3%A9gations_d%27implication_de_la_CIA_dans_le_trafic_de_drogue
Database Tracks History Of U.S. Meddling In Foreign #Elections : NPR
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670012
Les 100 entreprises qui vendent le plus d’armes dans le monde
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670113
Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in #Elections. We Do It, Too. - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670240
He Wouldn’t Become an Informant. Now He’s Headed for Prison. - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/675306
Gina Haspel : CIA veteran tied to use of brutal interrogation measures
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/676265
Why does Putin treat Britain with disdain? He thinks he’s bought it.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/677423
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/652709
Le marché de l’immobilier haut de gamme est devenu de moins en moins transparent - et plus attrayant pour ceux qui à l’étranger possèdent des actifs qu’ils souhaitent garder secrets - alors même que les Etats-Unis poussent les autres nations à les aider à empêcher l’argent américain de sortir du pays pour éviter les impôts.
« Les Etats-Unis ont été la plus grande source de corruption en Afghanistan »,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/319094#message319097
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
►https://seenthis.net/messages/306331
Le « New York Times » révèle l’existence d’armes chimiques abandonnées en Irak
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/302863
Toutes les armes trouvées auraient été fabriquées avant 1991 : rien à voir, donc, avec le matériel de destruction massive que l’administration Bush soupçonnait le régime de Saddam Hussein de produire. Selon le New York Times, les armes découvertes seraient des reliquats d’un programme lancé par l’Irak durant sa guerre contre l’Iran dans les années 1980.
[...] le mutisme des Etats-Unis pourrait aussi s’expliquer par leur implication dans la fabrication de ces armes.
5 / Les pays occidentaux impliqués dans la fabrication des armes
Selon le New York Times, le soutien de plusieurs pays occidentaux à l’Irak pendant la première guerre du Golfe lui a permis de développer rapidement un programme d’armement contenant ces armes chimiques . Le journal évoque le rôle d’entreprises allemandes dans la construction d’usines irakiennes ayant servi à fabriquer des ingrédients chimiques. Saddam Hussein aurait aussi acheté à des entreprises européennes et américaines des munitions pour disperser les agents toxiques fabriqués sur son sol.
L’effet boomerang est la mesure de la réussite ?
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/313053
Le Pentagone aurait dépensé plus d’un demi-milliard de dollars pour produire de fausses vidéos jihadistes
►https://seenthis.net/messages/530053
Expérimentations délétères sur des civils à leur insu
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/691602
’Astonishing’ #CIA memo shows Brazil’s ex-dictator authorized #torture and #executions | World news | The Guardian
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/693502
La CIA a protégé Carriles, terroriste notoire, en toute connaissance de cause.
►https://seenthis.net/messages/697401
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/707272
In the early years of the U.S. occupation, the Pentagon and CIA cultivated influential Afghan tribal leaders who were not part of the Quetta Alliance, even if they were deeply involved in drug trafficking, in order to turn them against the Taliban. That willingness to overlook drug trafficking was assisted by their belief that the drugs were going almost entirely to Asia and Europe.
A Nation Challenged : Hearts And Minds ; Pentagon Readies Efforts To Sway Sentiment Abroad - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/708813
Les « fake news » comme tactique du Pentagone
Des #enfants migrants victimes de #tortures aux #États-Unis
►https://seenthis.net/messages/709770
“I’m shocked somebody did some hacking. That’s never happened before.”
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/710918
U.S. War Footprint Grows in Middle East, With No Endgame in Sight - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/middleeast/us-war-footprint-grows-in-middle-east.html
(2017)
Les victimes civiles des tirs russes ne sont plus comptabilisées par les Etasuniens de peur qu’elles se révèlent moindre que celles dues aux tirs Etasuniens.
The rise in reports of civilian deaths linked to the United States and its allies has been so significant that Airwars, a group that tracks airstrikes, said last week that it was suspending its investigations into Russian airstrikes to avoid falling behind on those by the United States.
The U.S. military’s stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/567530
Sale of U.S. Arms Fuels the Wars of Arab States - NYTimes.com
►https://seenthis.net/messages/362590
PUTSCH – Les sept gouvernements (officiellement) renversés par les #Etats-Unis | Big Browser
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/166899
Washington aurait eu connaissance de projets d’arrestation de Khashoggi, selon le Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/728348
50 countries vow to fight #cybercrime; US and Russia don’t | Chicago Sun-Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/735196
Special Report: The Pentagon’s doctored ledgers conceal epic waste
►https://seenthis.net/messages/197847
THE #C.I.A. AND #LUMUMBA - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/746801
Four more ways the #CIA has meddled in Africa - BBC News
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/746802
#CIA Confirms Role in 1953 #Iran Coup
▻https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/#_ftn1
Washington, D.C., August 19, 2013 – Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified CIA documents on the United States’ role in the controversial operation. American and British involvement in Mosaddeq’s ouster has long been public knowledge, but today’s posting includes what is believed to be the CIA’s first formal acknowledgement that the agency helped to plan and execute the coup.
US calls for ‘new government’ in Venezuela
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/752062
Before Venezuela, US had long involvement in Latin America
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/755789
Top Ukrainian justice official says US ambassador gave him a do not prosecute list | TheHill
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/769396
US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials say | World news | The Guardian
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/776454
government officials continue to engage in a decades-long practice of overclassifying information, often for reasons that have nothing to do with national security..,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/783402
Congressman Hunter Says He Probably Killed ’Hundreds’ Of Civilians While In Combat | KPBS
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/784606
Overruling his experts, Pompeo keeps Saudis off U.S. child soldiers list - Reuters
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/788233
#Libye : les #Etats-Unis bloquent une résolution pour condamner le #carnage dans un centre pour migrants
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/791032
Letter detailing civilian presence failed to prevent deadly Afghan drone strike - Reuters
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/802991
The U.S. tried to fix Ukraine’s government. We exported our corruption, instead. - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/804463
Remembering The 1989 Massacre Of Jesuits In El Salvador : NPR
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/811572
Le scandale de l’affaire Omar Khadr
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/134220
Vol des avoirs irakiens
▻http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7444083.stm
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/813717#message813722
A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.
The BBC’s Panorama programme has used US and Iraqi government sources to research how much some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding.
A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.
The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.
U.S. officials misled the public about the war in #Afghanistan, confidential documents reveal - Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/815195
Centres de torture au Yémen : les Etats-Unis auraient leurs entrées - Libération
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/609299#message609710
Guerre contre la dissidence aux Émirats arabes unis avec l’aide des Etats-Unis,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/756518#message815319
What the C.I.A.’s #Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured - The #New_York_Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/815805
La CIA reconnaît son rôle dans le coup d’Etat en Iran en 1953
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/822593
Après des bombardements qui ont causé la mort de nombre de civils les #Etats-Unis ont permis l’évacuation sécurisée des responsables et des combattants de Daesh
Raqqa’s dirty secret - BBC News
►https://seenthis.net/messages/644594
Vol des avoirs irakiens (bis)
Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy - The New York Times
►https://seenthis.net/messages/871642
In the annals of American diplomacy, corruption has long had an equivocal status: deplored in public but in practice often regarded as a tolerable, even useful vice. The United States has a long history of supporting kleptocrats who were on the “right side” of one geopolitical rivalry or another.
‘Environmental Poisoning’ of Iraq Is Claimed
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/241509
FinCEN Files Show Criminals Moved Billions As Banks Watched
►https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks
..."the largest money laundering operations occur with the cooperation of the financial institutions , or at least some officers within those institutions. The lack of money laundering enforcement had nothing to do with a lack of evidence of suspicious transactions, but a lack of interest by political and law enforcement leadership.’’
[...]
“Under US law, a bank that engages in money laundering can literally be forced out of business by the government, and it is kind of surprising that government hasn’t taken that step, given the obvious deterrent effect it would have.”
[...]
Mazur, the former federal special agent and money laundering expert, says there are a “mosaic” of reasons why US authorities let the money keep running, but one of them may just be that it finds its way into too many pockets.
“Even if it’s bad wealth, it buys buildings,” he said. “It puts money into bank accounts. It enriches the nation.” ●
Les régimes kleptocratiques blanchissent aux États-Unis l’argent qu’ils volent
►https://seenthis.net/messages/890356
... as has been well documented, the world’s kleptocratic regimes depend heavily on money laundering networks that commonly extend into Western centers of global #finance like New York and London, aided by lax incorporation rules in places like Delaware .
Opinion | With Hacking, the United States Needs to Stop Playing the Victim - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/893078
« Pandora Papers » : des milliers de milliards de dollars toujours à l’abri dans des paradis_fiscaux
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/931805
Ces documents, pour la toute première fois, montrent que les Etats-Unis sont eux-mêmes un paradis fiscal.
U.S. lawmakers move urgently to recognize survivors of the first atomic bomb test
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/935594
Civilian Deaths Mounted as Secret Unit Pounded ISIS
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/939698
Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups | Reuters
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/967217
Février 2018
Ex-CIA director : US meddles in foreign elections for a ‘very good cause’ | The Hill
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/968251
Hidden Menace : Massive methane leaks speed up climate change | AP News
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/969059
Opinion | The War on Terror Was Corrupt From the Start - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/976860
Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1003066
« Les pays industriels ont “choisi” la croissance et le réchauffement climatique, et s’en sont…
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1005490
Dès novembre 1976, la Mitre Corporation, un groupe de réflexion d’origine militaire proche de la Maison Blanche, organisait un congrès intitulé « Living with Climate Change : Phase II ». Dans son préambule, le rapport passait rapidement sur le réchauffement, considéré comme inexorable. Restait à en évaluer les conséquences sur l’économie américaine. Mitre souhaitait ouvrir « un dialogue avec les leaders de l’industrie, de la science et du gouvernement ». Le résultat est impressionnant de prescience, et de désinvolture.
’Barbaric’ and ’negligent’ treatment in ICE detention, inspections found : NPR
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1013756
CHILE’S COUP at 50 Countdown Toward a Coup | National Security Archive
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1016157
Life expectancy in U.S. is falling amid surges in chronic illness - Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1019739
First U.S. service member killed in Syria was a bomb disposal technician - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/11/24/first-u-s-service-member-killed-in-syria/?hpid=hp_local-news_checkpoint-745pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
A U.S. Navy bomb disposal technician was killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon announced in a statement.
Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott C. Dayton, 42, of Woodbridge, Va., was killed near Ain Issa, a town roughly 35 miles northwest of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa. The death marks the first time a U.S. service member has been killed in the country since a contingent of Special Operations forces was deployed there in October 2015 to go after the extremist group.
“The entire counter-[Islamic State] coalition sends its condolences to this hero’s, family, friends and teammates,” said Lt. Gen Stephen Townsend, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. “On this Thanksgiving please be thankful there are service members willing to take up the fight to protect our homeland from [the Islamic State’s] hateful and brutal ideology.”
Drone warfare heads under the seas as U.S. seeks advantage over rivals
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/drone-warfare-heads-under-the-seas-as-us-seeks-advantage-over-rivals/2016/11/24/9f756572-9c61-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html
Despite the immense difficulties, the Navy has been testing and fielding several new systems designed to map the ocean floor, seek out mines, search for submarines and even launch attacks. While the unmanned crafts are now able to stay out for days or weeks, the goal is to create an underwater network of service stations that would allow the vehicles to do their jobs for months — and eventually years.
Military officials say there is a sense of urgency because the undersea domain, while often overlooked, could one day be as contested as the surface of the sea, the skies — and even space.
[...] In 2015, the Navy appointed its first deputy assistant secretary for unmanned systems. And the Pentagon plans to invest as much as $3 billion in undersea systems in the coming years.
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Un jury récompense les projets scientifiques collectifs | Ecole polytechnique
▻https://www.polytechnique.edu/fr/content/un-jury-recompense-les-projets-scientifiques-collectifs
Trois projets scientifiques collectifs (PSC) menés par des élèves de 2e année du cycle ingénieur ont été distingués par un jury lors de la finale qui s’est déroulée sur le campus le 12 septembre dernier.
1. Des constructions éphémères pour les situations d’urgence
Les six élèves de ce projet sont partis d’un constat : dans les régions touchées par des catastrophes naturelles ou sujettes à retard de développement, installer des infrastructures telles que des ponts ou des routes n’est pas forcément adapté aux besoins des populations en raison de leur coût, de la durée du projet ou de zones impraticables pour des engins. Face à ce problème, les étudiants ont imaginé des solutions techniques éphémères et légères permettant de palier à un besoin d’urgence dans l’attente d’une construction pérenne. Le groupe d’élèves a ainsi conçu le projet d’une passerelle longue de dix mètres basé sur le principe de la #tenségrité, c’est-à-dire la faculté d’une structure à se stabiliser, non par la résistance de chacun de leurs constituants, mais par la répartition et l’équilibre des contraintes mécaniques dans la totalité de la construction.
[…]
2. Commander un drone avec la tête
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=757QtbQVObE
Le groupe de sept élèves a inventé un nouveau mode de commande pour les drones avec l’objectif de créer un système donnant à l’utilisateur la sensation de voler, et cela à l’aide de deux iPhones. Placé dans le masque, devant les yeux du pilote, le premier iPhone retransmet la vue de la caméra embarquée, immergeant l’utilisateur dans l’environnement du drone et le mettant ainsi en situation de vol. « L’utilisateur dirige intuitivement le drone et sa caméra par des mouvements de la tête, détaille Pierre Gonnetan, élève polytechnicien. Dans sa main, l’utilisateur tient un second iPhone par l’intermédiaire duquel il peut faire décoller et atterrir le drone, mais aussi le faire accélérer ou ralentir ».
[…]3. Des drones détecteurs de sous-munitions
Les élèves de ce projet scientifique collectif ont conçu un programme capable de détecter des sous-munitions grâce à un système qui pourra, à terme, être embarqué à bord d’un drone. Les sous-munitions sont les centaines de petites bombes regroupées dans le conteneur d’une bombe à sous-munitions. Une partie d’entre elles n’explose pas lorsqu’elles touchent le sol et deviennent des mines anti-personnel. Pour combattre ce fléau qui touche notamment le Laos, où il est estimé qu’il reste environ 75 millions de sous-munitions non explosées, les sept polytechniciens se sont penchés sur de possibles évolutions technologiques afin de décontaminer le territoire. En étudiant les sous-munitions, ils ont observé que celles-ci, composées en grande partie de métal, restaient à la surface du terrain miné et que, du fait de leur largage par avion, elles sont regroupées sur une surface elliptique de dimensions très caractéristiques. Suite à ces recherches, les élèves ont développé un projet consistant à élaborer un système de détection de ces zones de largage de sous-munition reposant sur la détection de leur signature magnétique. « Nous avons caractérisé le champ magnétique qu’émet une sous-munition par ferromagnétisme et conçu un système embarqué capable de détecter cette signature pour des faibles hauteurs, explique Quentin Baudenon, élève de 3ème année. Ensuite, nous avons exploité ces données sur ordinateur pour cartographier la zone selon les variations mesurées du champ magnétique. Enfin, si des objets ont été détectés, le programme indique la zone qui a la plus grande probabilité d’être minée ». Aujourd’hui, les élèves sont capables de détecter, grâce à un chariot transportant leur système, le type de sous-munitions principalement retrouvées au Laos à une altitude de 26 cm. « La prochaine étape consiste en la réduction des bruits qui perturbent la mesure du champ magnétique pour pouvoir gagner en altitude afin que notre projet prenne littéralement son envol à bord d’un drone », projette Quentin Baudenon.
(pas de photos pour ce dernier projet)
Plaine des Jarres — Wikipédia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaine_des_Jarres
Les principaux champs de jarres sont situés dans la province de Xieng Khouang, sur un plateau autour de Phonsavan. Ce plateau a une altitude moyenne de 1 200 mètres ; c’est là que se rencontrent les principales concentrations de jarres.
Ce secteur a été parmi les régions les plus bombardées par l’aviation américaine durant la guerre du Viêt Nam : plus de 500 attaques aériennes par mois selon le programme Rolling Thunder (tonnerre ininterrompu), chiffres tirés des Pentagon Papers, soit une attaque toutes les huit minutes pendant neuf ans selon le journaliste Fred Branfman qui a dénoncé ce pilonnage inutile dans son livre Voices from the Plain of Jars : Life under an Air War. Branfman a prouvé, cartes à l’appui, que la plaine des jarres n’était pas sur le trajet de la Piste Hô Chi Minh qui servait aux Nord-Vietnamiens à ravitailler en armes les combattants du Sud.
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La communauté scientifique ne peut encore donner que des explications conjecturelles quant à la datation de ces jarres de pierre, sur une période allant de 5000 av. J.-C. à 800 ap. J.-C. et il existe plusieurs théories sur leur destination : urnes funéraires, stockage de nourriture ou d’eau, cuves à fermentation pour la production d’alcool, etc. Aucune n’explique le nombre de ces mégalithes pesant entre 600 kg et 7 tonnes, ni la manière dont ils ont été amenés sur les cinq sites de la plaine alors que le grès dans lequel ils sont taillés provient de la chaîne de montagnes située entre Luang Prabang et Xieng Khouang. Les légendes locales sont nombreuses et les habitants de la région continuent à en inventer à l’usage des touristes.
Un rapport cartographie la circulation des armes dans le Sahel - RFI
▻http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20161116-rapport-cartographie-circulation-armes-le-sahel?ns_campaign=reseaux_soc
L’organisation CAR (Conflict Armament Research), basée en Grande-Bretagne, rend ce mercredi 16 novembre son rapport sur les transferts d’armes transfrontaliers dans le Sahel. L’ONG a travaillé dans une dizaine de pays pour établir une cartographie des flux d’armements dans la zone et dévoile les sources d’approvisionnement des groupes armés et islamistes à travers l’Afrique du Nord et de l’Ouest.
Claudio Gramizzi est l’un des conseillers de l’Organisation. Dans le rapport d’une cinquantaine de pages auquel il a contribué, il lève un coin du voile sur les approvisionnements en armes de la RCA, avant et pendant la crise. Deux sources sont clairement identifiées : la Côte d’Ivoire, côte gouvernementale ; et le Soudan côté ex-rébellion Seleka. Sur le volume d’armes retrouvé, évalué, par l’ONG, près d’une Kalachnikov sur cinq provenait de Côte d’Ivoire, des armes détournées des arsenaux ivoiriens.
La même organisation citée ici, expliquant que grâce aux Seoudiens, les armes sont livrées quasiment en direct à Daech :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/524137
Il faut peut-être utiliser l’imparfait sur la dernière période et faire la distinction entre de riches familles saoudiennes ou qatari et les gouvernements de ces pays.
@cepcasa : non non, lis l’article référencé, ce que raconte CAR n’est pas au passé, et ça concerne bien le gouvernement séoudien :
Despite signing an agreement saying it would not sell the weapons to any other countries, Saudi Arabia appears to send them “straight to Turkey”, from where they get into Islamic State’s hands “very, very rapidly” via illicit means. […] That’s almost direct. If you want to put something on a boat and float it, it’s going to take a month.
Toujours dans le cadre des voyages des armes, les blindés M113 d’origine USA, montrés par le Hezbollah en Syrie, et probablement récupérés dans les stocks de l’Armée du Liban du Sud ▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/11/16/hezbollah-has-u-s-armored-personnel-carriers-but-how-did-they-get-them/?tid=pm_world_pop
… récupérés dans les stocks de l’Armée du Liban du Sud
… et donc auraient étés aimablement fournis initialement par Israël.
Mais avec une production autour de 80000 exemplaires en plus de 50 ans, les sources de seconde main du M113 ne manquent pas…
The armored personnel carrier, known as the M113, is one of the United States’ most ubiquitous armored vehicles and has been in service since the 1960s. The tracked semi-rhombus-shaped vehicle comes in numerous variants and can be outfitted to carry troops and artillery; its chassis was even used as the basis for a nuclear-missile carrier. It has appeared in every major U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War and is used by U.S. police departments and dozens of others countries’ militaries around the world.
[…]
In a tweet, the Lebanese military denied that the M113s were taken from its stocks, a claim backed up by a State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the issue.
“The Lebanese military has publicly stated that the M113s depicted online were never part of their equipment roster,” the official said. “Our initial assessment concurs: The M113s allegedly in Hezbollah’s possession in Syria are unlikely to have come from the Lebanese military. We are working closely with our colleagues in the Pentagon and in the Intelligence Community on to resolve this issue.”
Closely aligned with Iran and Syria, Hezbollah has been fighting alongside Syrian government troops since the beginning of the conflict.
The Hezbollah M113s appear to be an older variant, and U.S. officials said they are inclined to believe that vehicles came from the disintegration of the Southern Lebanese Army, or SLA. The SLA was an Israeli-allied and supplied Christian militia that fought during the Lebanese civil war. Its military equipment was ultimately absorbed by Hezbollah in the early 2000s when Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon.
Au WaPo, ils ont un #formidable sens de la formule : Obama directs Pentagon to target al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, one of the most formidable forces fighting Assad
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-directs-pentagon-to-target-al-qaeda-affiliate-in-syria-one-of-the-most-formidable-forces-fighting-assad/2016/11/10/cf69839a-a51b-11e6-8042-f4d111c862d1_story.html
(Juillet 2016) The Obama Administration Has Brokered More Weapons Sales Than Any Other Administration Since World War II
▻https://www.thenation.com/article/the-obama-administration-has-sold-more-weapons-than-any-other-administrat
The numbers should stagger anyone. According to the latest figures available from the Congressional Research Service, the United States was credited with more than half the value of all global arms transfer agreements in 2014, the most recent year for which full statistics are available. At 14 percent, the world’s second largest supplier, Russia, lagged far behind. Washington’s “leadership” in this field has never truly been challenged. The US share has fluctuated between one-third and one-half of the global market for the past two decades, peaking at an almost monopolistic 70 percent of all weapons sold in 2011. And the gold rush continues. Vice Admiral Joe Rixey, who heads the Pentagon’s arms sales agency, euphemistically known as the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, estimates that arms deals facilitated by the Pentagon topped $46 billion in 2015, and are on track to hit $40 billion in 2016.
(Avril 2014) Obama Has Already Deported More Immigrants Than Any President In History
▻http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/immigration/obama-has-already-deported-more-immigrants-any-president-history
Here’s a statistic about President Obama that will probably accomplish the strange feat of angering his supporters and exciting his detractors. President Obama has deported more immigrants during his presidency than any other president in United States history. More than Reagan, Clinton, either Bush – you name it, he’s deported more than all of them.
Obama is winning the deportation race by a ridiculous margin, too. Through the first five years of his presidency, he’s deported more than twice as many people as George W. Bush had at the same point. Again, whether or not this is good news to you probably depends on your political views. Either way, it’s a surprising statistic for a president that has been accused by his political opponents of being sympathetic towards immigrants.
Et pour finir (?)
Obama Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/politics/12leak.html
In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions. His administration has taken actions that might have provoked sharp political criticism for his predecessor, George W. Bush, who was often in public fights with the press.
Quand le #Pentagone invite les femmes, les trans-genre et autres minorités et stigmatisés à s’enrôler pour zigouiller du pauvre, du bougnoule et du bamboula, ce qu’il faut retenir, bien évidemment, est que le Pentagone est #progressiste.
▻http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/11/04/overweight-tattooed-stoned-pentagon-may-still-want-you.html
The recruitment review marks the latest step by the Obama administration to push the tradition-bound, male-dominated Pentagon onto a more modern footing.
De la crise climatique aux guerres
►http://orientxxi.info/magazine/de-la-crise-climatique-aux-guerres,1553
Super dossier d’Orient XXI sur le #climat et les #monde_arabe
Des études de chercheurs établissent le changement climatique et les accaparement de ressources comme facteurs du développement de conflits armés ou de groupes terroristes. Un sujet relativement peu exploré, qui concerne pourtant nombre de régions du monde, de la Syrie à l’Irak en passant par plusieurs pays d’Afrique et la Birmanie.
Qui peut apporter des solutions ? Ni les entreprises sponsors des COP, ni les États qui tirent profit et alimentent ces situations, dénoncent ONG et associations à travers le monde. Pour Hamza Hamouchene, c’est « le modèle civilisationnel » basé sur le capitalisme et l’extractivisme qui est à revoir.
Le facteur religieux, simple prétexte ?
Pourtant, de Barack Obama à François Hollande, les dirigeants s’accordent à dire que la crise climatique est un grave danger « pour la sécurité ». Mais le chercheur Mathieu Rigouste nuance. « À partir de la fin des années 80, la "crise climatique" émerge comme une thématique des "nouvelles menaces" dans les archives de l’Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN). Les "études de défense et de sécurité" vont alors focaliser de plus en plus sur la figure de ce qu’ils nomment "l’écoterrorisme" et la "menace de réfugiés climatique". » Pour lui, « ce discours tend à effacer la responsabilité du système économique et établir les mouvements sociaux et militants qui luttent contre la dévastation capitaliste de la planète comme les causes ». Lors de la COP21, la France a pretexté l’état d’urgence pour ne pas attribuer de visas à des représentants des sociétés civiles « des Suds » et a multiplié les perquisitions et assignations à résidence contre ceux que des médias ont qualifié de... « djihadistes verts ». En réponse, des militants qualifient les politiques étatiques de « terrorisme environnemental », indique Hamza Hamouchene.
La crise climatique, les ressources et les stratégies opportunistes auraient finalement plus de poids dans les guerres que les religions ? « Derrière ce qui est appelé "guerres de religions" on trouve généralement des régimes de violence d’État programmés pour l’accumulation des pouvoirs, des profits et des privilèges et qui emploient les thématiques religieuses comme justification, mystification et mobilisation », conclut Mathieu Rigouste. Au Congo, où se déroule un « génocide » dixit l’ONU, qui avait déjà fait plus de 6 millions de morts en 2014, « des milices de l’Est et d’autres régions du pays ont acquis une partie du territoire en vue d’en faire un moyen de négociation économique et financière grâce à leurs ressources. Ce sont devenus des groupes politiques et certains occupent des territoires avec le soutien de groupes djihadistes », commente Amzat Boukari-Yabara. « Dans les conflits en Centrafrique ou dans les zones pétrolières du Soudan, des communautés chrétiennes sont directement impliquées […] ». Ces cas de figure se retrouvent ailleurs.
L’autre jour, en écoutant France Culture, j’ai eu la bonne surprise d’entendre quelqu’un qui disait qu’on ne pouvait comprendre la #crise syrienne sans remonter effectivement à la crise climatique qui ravage la région, la privant par endroit de près de 80% de ses #ressources hydriques.
Il expliquait qu’en fait la Syrie avait dû absorber d’immenses déplacements de population directement causés par la #sécheresse qui sévit dans la région et que cela était équivalent à ce que la France aurait gérer si, en quelques années, 7 à 8 millions de personnes avaient quitté les campagnes et pays limitrophes pour venir se masser dans les faubourgs de nos métropoles : « aucune démocratie ne peut survivre à ça ».
À comparer avec les quelques dizaines de milliers de #migrants qui arrivent à grand peine chez nous et qui ont déjà causé tant de crises politiques…
Oui, les guerres de l’eau ne sont plus de la science fiction. Et même si nous avons l’illusion d’être à l’abri, nous sommes déjà en train de nous battre dans les cambrousses pour que les agrobarons ne pourrissent pas les dernières ressources en eau potable… et nous sommes en train de perdre.
Pentagon Fears Confirmed: Climate Change Leads to More Wars and Refugees
The most comprehensive study done to assess the link between climate change, war and migration has confirmed that the warming planet is fueling conflicts that lead to more refugees.
The conclusions published Wednesday in a scientific journal underscore the rising levels of anxiety that global warming has among leaders. Attendees at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said the inability to adapt to higher temperatures is the biggest global risk. A Pentagon report published on Tuesday in Washington warned that rising seas and more frequent wild fires threaten U.S. security.
The peer-reviewed study, “Climate, conflict and forced migration,” published in Elsevier Ltd.’s Global Environmental Change, analyzed sprawling data sets covering drought, battle deaths, ethnicity and political systems. Those were then combined with geographic information about refugee flows. The researchers discovered that deteriorating climate conditions played a “a statistically significant role” in the recent waves of migrants fleeing Middle East conflict.
The research bolsters previous warnings from defense and intelligence agencies that climate change could trigger more conflicts severe enough to uproot populations.
While a changing climate won’t always lead to armed conflict, the regional conditions in the Middle East in 2010 were just right to feed a spiral of violence. Migration resulting from those rifts stretched from Syria to Sudan, according to Raya Muttarak, one of the study’s co-authors from the U.K.’s University of East Anglia.
“It takes a perfect storm,” Muttarak said, pointing out that political conditions play an outsize role. “If it’s too authoritarian or too democratic the results are different.”
The study’s other authors, who work at institutions in Austria and China, provided tangible advice to world leaders looking to stem the flow of refugees fleeing conflict.
Policies to “improve the adaptive capacity to deal with the effects of climate change in developing economies may have additional returns by reducing the likelihood of conflict and forced migration,” they wrote.
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/pentagon-fears-confirmed-climate-change-leads-to-war-refugees
#migrations #réfugiés_environnementaux #réfugiés_climatiques
Climate,conflict and forced migration
Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as well as to the migration crisis in Europe. Exploiting bilateral data on asylum seeking applications for 157 countries over the period 2006–2015, we assess the determinants of refugee flows using a gravity model which accounts for endogenous selection in order to examine the causal link between climate, conflict and forced migration. Our results indicate that climatic conditions, by affecting drought severity and the likelihood of armed conflict, played a significant role as an explanatory factor for asylum seeking in the period 2011–2015. The effect of climate on conflict occurrence is particularly relevant for countries in Western Asia in the period 2010–2012 during when many countries were undergoing political transformation. This finding suggests that the impact of climate on conflict and asylum seeking flows is limited to specific time period and contexts.
▻https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/15684/1/1-s2.0-S0959378018301596-main.pdf
Recipe For War: Remove Water and Food, Add Ethnic Strife—Then Stir
Climate change hasn’t driven humans to kill each other yet, but we’re getting closer.
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-26/recipe-for-war-remove-water-and-food-add-ethnic-strife-then-stir
#paywall
Bizarre leaked Pentagon #video is a science fiction story about the future of cities
▻http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/10/bizarre-leaked-pentagon-video-is-a-science-fiction-story-about-the-fu
L’impossible futur du #Pentagone
▻http://www.politis.fr/blogs/2016/10/limpossible-futur-du-pentagone-34151
Une courte vidéo attribuée au Pentagone a fuité sur le Net grâce au site The Intercept. Elle révèle la vision des seuls lendemains que la défense américaine entend laisser se réaliser dans les grandes villes. Sa mission, nous délivrer, que nous le voulions ou non, de tous les mécréants réels ou imaginaires. Un scénario dystopique et machiavélique qui donne envie de quitter la planète pour aller n’importe où ailleurs.
Fascinant. Les images sont belles. Et la fin du monde est datée : #2030...
EpiPen price hikes add millions to Pentagon costs | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mylan-epipen-pentagon-exclusive-idUSKCN12S0EI
Defense spending on the injectors at retail pharmacies - which accounted for 53,500 of 226,000 EpiPen prescriptions for the last fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 - has grown more than tenfold, to $28 million from $2.4 million in 2008.
While EpiPen spending represents a fraction of a percent of the Defense Department’s $49 billion annual healthcare budget, the data illustrates the premium it was paying for EpiPens at retail outlets.
“Lawmakers would not be terribly happy to hear that DoD is paying more at retail,” said Brian Bruen, a drug economics researcher at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.
U.S. warship challenges China’s claims in South China Sea | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-usa-exclusive-idUSKCN12L1O9
A U.S. navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Friday, drawing a warning from Chinese warships to leave the area.
The U.S. action was the latest attempt to counter what Washington sees as Beijing’s efforts to limit freedom of navigation in the strategic waters, U.S. officials said.
The Chinese Defense Ministry called the move “illegal” and “provocative,” saying that two Chinese warships had warned the U.S. destroyer to leave.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur challenged “excessive maritime claims” near the Paracel Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The latest U.S. patrol, first reported by Reuters, is expected to anger Beijing and could further escalate tensions over the South China Sea. The destroyer sailed within waters claimed by China, close to but not within the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits of the islands, the officials said.
The Pentagon said the Decatur “conducted this transit in a routine, lawful manner without ship escorts and without incident.” One official said the ship, which sailed near Triton and Woody Islands, was shadowed by three Chinese vessels and that all interactions were safe.
The White House confirmed the Reuters report.
“This operation demonstrated that coastal states may not unlawfully restrict the navigation rights, freedoms and lawful uses of the sea that the United States and all states are entitled to exercise under international law,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing.
It was the fourth challenge that the United States has made to what it considers overreaching maritime claims by China in the South China Sea in the past year, and the first since May.
Ça, c’était mardi, 3 jours après l’éventuelle « attaque ». 3 jours plus tard, toujours aucune nouvelle, soit « on » analyse et évalue toujours le déroulement de l’incident, soit « on » a discrètement conclu à la fausse alerte.
Pentagon voices caution on latest Yemen missile incident | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-usa-idUSKBN12H284
The Pentagon declined to say on Monday whether the USS Mason destroyer was targeted by multiple inbound missiles fired from Yemen on Saturday, as initially thought, saying a review was under way to determine what happened.
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“We are still assessing the situation. There are still some aspects to this that we are trying to clarify for ourselves given the threat - the potential threat - to our people,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told a news briefing.
Variante militaire (Peter Cook est civil, ancien journaliste) le même jour.
Pentagon Still Unsure if USS Mason Was Attacked on Saturday - USNI News
▻https://news.usni.org/2016/10/18/pentagon-still-unsure-uss-mason-attacked-saturday
Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, told reporters, “we actually have not confirmed that happened and we’re going back and looking at all the information to see what might or might not have happened and that’s where we are.”
سيناتور أمريكي يفتح النار على السعودية ويتهمها بمساعدة إسرائيل لاغتيال الحريري ونشر وتعزيز الإرهاب في الولايات المتحدة وأوروبا | رأي اليوم
►http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=544873
J’aimerais bien vérifier, mais je n’y arrive pas (c’est dans un entretien à Politico mais je n’ai rien trouvé). Dans cet article, il est dit que le sénateur de l’Ohio, Chuck Grassley, accuse nommément l’Arabie saoudite, et Israël en prime, d’avoir fomenté l’assassinat de Rafik Hariri, rien que cela !
L’hypothèse avait été évoquée, mais uniquement par d’odieux sites complotistes. Le sénateur parle de « preuves »...
New evidence for condemning Saudi Arabia in favor of 9/11 bill (edit: hoax, voir ci-après)
▻http://www.policito.com/2016/10/chuck-grassley-I-have-new-evidence-supporting-9-11-bill
While top Obama administration officials are still trying to exert last-minute pressure on lawmakers to help sustain Obama’s veto of legislation that would allow families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, yesterday on October 16, 2016, Chuck Grassley the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and the senior United States Senator from Iowa, in an interview with POLITICO voiced Senate serious support for 9/11 bill. He stated that some newly obtained documents showed that the assassination of Rafic Hariri, the former Lebanon Prime Minister which was carried out by Israel and the help of Saudi Arabia.
“In the Congress, some definite evidence proposed by a retired pentagon member proving Saudi Arabia’s direct role in other terrorist operations including Rafic Hariri’s assassination. I’ll firmly back the legislation” , Grassley said.
Je trouve ça très bizarre : il aurait balancé un truc aussi énorme comme ça, « en passant », dans une interview sur un autre sujet (le 11 Septembre). En accusant d’ailleurs Israël d’un attentat terroriste alors que le sujet initial est l’Arabie séoudite…
Je m’attends à une rétractation (« le journaliste m’a mal compris »)…
(D’ailleurs, en dehors de Rai al Youm et, apparemment, un site iranien, rigoureusement aucune mention nulle part.)
@souriyam sur Twitter me signale que l’auteur supposée de cet article a twitté qu’elle n’en était pas l’auteur : en fait, bien regarder l’URL, c’est un faux site (policito.com au lieu de politico.com). D’ailleurs le site vient de lâcher à l’instant, en dépassant les limites de son hébergement gratuit.
#Irak : Paris confirme qu’un #drone piégé a blessé deux membres des forces spéciales françaises à Erbil
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2016/10/11/irak-deux-commandos-francais-gravement-blesses-a-erbil-par-un-drone-piege_50
Le gouvernement français a confirmé, mercredi, cette attaque. L’engin, qui a aussi tué deux peshmergas kurdes, aurait été envoyé par un groupe lié à l’organisation Etat islamique, un mode d’action inédit contre les forces françaises.
Pentagon Urgently Pushing Anti-Drone Tech to #ISIS Fight
▻http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/10/pentagon-urgently-pushing-anti-drone-tech-isis-fight/132308
Septembre 2012, Paul Rogers: Then comes the blowback.
►https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-rogers/suicide-bombs-without-suicides-why-drones-are-so-cool
As paramilitary movements learn to respond, their range of options starts with the utilisation of many readily available technologies. They may be aided by support from a sympathetic regime - witness the unarmed TV-guided drones from Hizbollah, deploying Iranian technology, that have caused the Israelis such concern (see “Hizbollah’s warning flight”, 5 May 2005). Even short of that, the fusion of so many available dual-use technologies and the abilities of skilled engineers and technicians working within radical movements means that armed-drones from non-state actors will be a feature of asymmetrical, transnational war very soon (see An asymmetrical drone war", 19 August 2010).
In addition, and even without using drones, paramilitary movements should be expected to target the drone-war centres such as the Creech and Waddington bases - if not the bases themselves, then soft targets in their vicinity.
What military planners and policy-formers in the west realise least of all is that while the results of drone-warfare rarely make the western media in any depth, they are extensively reported on regional and satellite TV stations across the middle east and into Asia. Even more pertinent is the pervasive coverage of drone-attacks on the worldwide jihadist social media. Moreover, the graphic images of death and suffering on both these kinds of outlets are far grimmer than anything seen in the west (see “Every casualty: the human face of war”, 15 September 2011).
For now, the drones hold sway - but it is no more than a temporary phenomenon, a transient phase. Within a very few years, and maybe even only months, the next phase will commence as paramilitary groups respond. As with other elements of the “war on terror”, the seduction of short-term advantage disguises damaging longer-term consequences.
Did the U.S. Assist the Disastrous Bombing of a Funeral in #Yemen?
By Ken Klippenstein, Paul Gottinger / AlterNet October 13, 2016
▻http://www.alternet.org/world/did-us-assist-sanaa-bombing
A renowned combat aircraft engineer and former Pentagon official, Pierre Sprey, says the evidence suggests the U.S. did exactly that.
Troisième « attaque » de navire é.-u. en Mer Rouge
Décidément, il y a quelqu’un dans la région que ça démange de chatouiller les États-Uniens…
USS Mason ’Appears to Have Come Under Attack’
▻https://news.usni.org/2016/10/15/cno-richardson-uss-mason-attacked-cruise-missiles-off-yemen#more-22082
A U.S. guided missile destroyer may have been attacked on Saturday off the coast of #Yemen by anti-ship cruise missiles for the third time this week, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson told reporters on Saturday.
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The following is the Oct. 15, 2016 Pentagon statement provided to USNI News on the apparent attack on USS Mason.
Earlier today a U.S. Strike Group transiting international waters in the Red Sea detected possible inbound missile threats and deployed appropriate defensive countermeasures. Our sailors and ships are unharmed, and we are still assessing the situation. We will continue to defend freedom of navigation in this critical waterway, and we will take all necessary steps to respond to threats and defend our personnel and ships.
Oui, mais qui ? Crois-tu comme moi que les Houthis ne sont pas forcément les responsables ? Ou alors, ils persistent dans l’erreur, ce qui ne semble pas leur genre. De plus, en signe de bonne volonté sans doute, ils ont libéré deux citoyens des USA hier (▻http://www.ouest-france.fr/monde/yemen/kerry-annonce-la-liberation-de-deux-americains-detenus-au-yemen-4561121). Alors ?...
USS Mason fires missiles in Red Sea after apparent attack - CNNPolitics.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/15/politics/uss-mason-fired-on-again
Dans la vidéo (mais pas dans le texte) il est dit que les Iraniens seraient directement impliqués dans ces attaques (avec images de défilé à Téhéran et des fameux « essaims » de vedettes dans le Golfe)
The Navy destroyer USS Mason fired countermeasures in the Red Sea on Saturday after it detected what it believed were incoming missiles.
Officials Saturday night were uncertain about what exactly happened, if there were multiple incoming missiles or if there was a malfunction with the radar detection system on the destroyer.
“We are aware of the reports and we are assessing the situation. All of our ships and crews are safe and unharmed,” one US defense official told CNN.
The USS Nitze and the USS Ponce were sailing nearby.
There are initial unconfirmed reports of missiles possibly being fired from positions both ashore on Yemen and by small spotter boats operated by Houthi rebels.
The incident was revealed Saturday by Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson during a ship christening in Baltimore.
Earlier Saturday night, a second US defense official said there were multiple incoming surface-to-surface missiles detected by the Mason.
In reaction, the Mason fired multiple missiles using onboard countermeasures, the two officials said.
Certains sites va-t-en-guerre voient dans ces attaques la preuve que l’Iran ne se contente plus du contrôle d’un détroit stratégique (Ormuz) mais viserait celui du détroit de Bab-el-Mandeb. Quitte à chatouiller les É.-U. autant que ce soit pour quelque chose qui en vaille la peine…
@gonzo, tu as lu comme moi dans la presse du royaume qu’il faut être atteint de pathologie mentale pour imaginer que LL.AA.RR. puissent être pour quelque chose dans l’attaque d’une cérémonie funéraire. Dans les cas vraiment graves, cette maladie ferait même suspecter des opérations de type false flag menées par des éléments de la coalition là où il n’y a rien d’autres que les menées des infâmes Sassanides.
‘Limited & proportionate’: Obama vows to continue ‘self-defense’ strikes in Yemen — RT America
▻https://www.rt.com/usa/362839-obama-yemen-necessary-self-defense
On Friday US President Barack Obama informed Congress about authorizing the strikes “in response to anti-ship cruise missile launches perpetrated by Houthi insurgents.” In the “War Powers Resolution” letter, Obama stated that US armed forces targeted radar facilities which the US believes had been involved in “the October 9 launches and other recent attacks.”
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The American leader’s statement somewhat contradicts the Pentagon’s assessment presented a day earlier.
“We don’t know who was pulling the trigger,” Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said on Thursday, confirming only that US ships had been attacked from “Houthi-controlled territory.”
Furthermore, Cook went on to implicate Tehran in the matter, adding that throughout the conflict “Iran has played a role and been supportive of the Houthi rebels.”
Meanwhile the Houthis have denied any attempts to strike US warships calling the US allegations “false justifications” that pave the way for a further escalation of the bombardment of Yemen which so far has been carried out only by the Saudi-led coalition.
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Iran in the meantime reacted to the US escalation by moving its navy closer to Yemen’s waters, deploying a number of warships to the Gulf of Aden.
Pentagon hints at possible retaliation after Yemen missile fire | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-pentagon-idUSKCN12B2DB
The Pentagon on Tuesday warned that whoever fired missiles at a U.S. Navy destroyer and an accompanying ship off the coast of Yemen over the weekend had done so “at their own peril,” language that suggested preparations for possible retaliation.
U.S. Navy ship targeted in failed missile attack from Yemen: U.S. | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-usa-ship-idUSKCN12A082
A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, saying neither of the two missiles hit the ship.
The attempted strike on the USS Mason, which was first reported by Reuters, came just a week after a United Arab Emirates vessel came under attack from Houthis and suggests growing risks to the U.S. military from Yemen’s conflict.
The U.S. government, which has become increasingly vocal about civilian casualties in the war, this weekend announced a review of its support to a Saudi Arabia-led coalition battling the Houthis after a strike on mourners in the capital Sanaa that killed up to 140 people.
The failed missile attack on the USS Mason began around 7 p.m. local time, when the ship detected two inbound missiles over a 60-minute period in the Red Sea off Yemen’s coast, the U.S. military said.
“Both missiles impacted the water before reaching the ship,” Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said. “There were no injuries to our sailors and no damage to the ship.”
Yemeni Army, Popular Forces Reject Reports on Targeting US Warship in Red Sea : ▻http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950719001036
quelqu’un ne dit pas la vérité !
New Facts about Yemen Missile Attack on USS Mason : US Ship Fired 3 Missiles to Defend Itself
►https://southfront.org/new-facts-about-yemen-missile-attack-on-uss-mason-us-ship-fired-3-missil
Three missiles were fired by the crew of the USS Mason (DDG-87) guided-missile destroyer in the Red Sea in order to defend it and the nearby USS Ponce (AFSB(I)-15) from an attack of two presumed cruise missiles, fired by the Iran-backed Houthi forces from the Yemini shore, on October 9, the USNI News informational website reported, citing two defense officials.
According to the sources, the vessel was operating in international waters north of the strait of Bab el-Mandeb at the time of the attack. A single Enhanced Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) and two Standard Missile-2s (SM-2s) were launched by the USS Mason in order to intercept the two missiles. The Nulka anti-ship missile decoy also was used by the ship.
As one of the defense officials told USNI News on October 10, the Mason “employed onboard defensive measures against the first suspected cruise missile, although it is unclear whether this led to the missile striking the water or whether it would have struck the water anyway.” However, it was not specified that the “defensive measure” was a missile fired from the ship.
Débat sur l’utilisation ou non de missiles anti-missiles.
Former aide to retired former-Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert and a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Bryan Clark, noted that the use of both missiles by the US is “very significant.”
“It might be the first time the SM-2 used against an actual threat for which it was designed,” Clark said. “It’s definitely the first time ESSM has been used… This is obviously a huge deal.”
At the same time, other experts noted that the fact that the Pentagon is not able to say if the missiles were intercepted indicates that this event did not take place. According to them, the Pentagon would actively use this incident to promote the US Navy and the defense industries due to the fact that the system has not ever been used to intercept a target in a real incident before.
Enfin, analyse des dégâts sur le HSV Swift (cf. billet sur le sujet)
Apparemment, les navires états-uniens ont subi deux attaques au missile distinctes.
Navy launches Tomahawk missiles at rebel sites in Yemen after attacks on U.S. ships - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/10/12/more-missiles-fired-from-rebel-held-territory-in-yemen-at-u-s-navy-s
In the first attack launched at the U.S. Navy, two cruise missiles were launched Sunday at the USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and the USS Ponce, an amphibious staging base. In that case, the first missile was launched while the ships were at least 12 miles away from Yemen’s shore in international waters near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, a waterway between Yemen and Djibouti that is heavily trafficked by oilers. The ships were even farther away when the second one was launched.
In the second attack Wednesday, at least one missile was fired from rebel-held territory at the Mason, [Pentagon spokesman Peter] Cook said. That missile was launched at about 6 p.m. from south of the coastal city Al Hudaydah.