L’article du jour : la CIA a un programme secret d’un milliard de dollars par an, depuis 2013, pour armer et entraîner des « rebelles syriens modérés », dans le cadre d’un « programme de plusieurs milliards impliquant l’Arabie séoudite, le Qatar and la Turquie » . Voilà voilà.
Secret CIA effort in Syria faces large funding cut
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmakers-move-to-curb-1-billion-cia-program-to-train-syrian-rebels/2015/06/12/b0f45a9e-1114-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html
At $1 billion, Syria-related operations account for about $1 of every $15 in the CIA’s overall budget, judging by spending levels revealed in documents The Washington Post obtained from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
U.S. officials said the CIA has trained and equipped nearly 10,000 fighters sent into Syria over the past several years — meaning that the agency is spending roughly $100,000 per year for every anti-Assad rebel who has gone through the program.
The CIA declined to comment on the program or its budget. But U.S. officials defended the scale of the expenditures, saying the money goes toward much more than salaries and weapons and is part of a broader, multibillion-dollar effort involving Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to bolster a coalition of militias known as the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army.
(Comme tu le sais, l’opposition se serait « radicalisée » à cause du manque de soutien américain. Il faut donc comprendre que « manque de soutien » signifie « programme secret d’un milliard de dollars par an ».)