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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Ozeti Les Kurdes jugent le rapport « irréaliste» et « inapproprié » LE PRÉSIDENT de la région autonome du Kurdistan irakien, Massoud Barzani a rejeté, vendredi 8 décembre, le rappo~ rédigé par le groupe d'études américain qui propose une nouvelle stratégie en Irak. M. Barzani l'a jugé « irréaliste et inapproprié ». ce rapport évoque notamment le sort de la région de Kirkouk riche en pétrole, que revendiquent l~s Kurdes irakiens. Par ailleurs, des responsables irakiens ont annoncé, vendredi, que la conférence de réconciliation nationale annoncée par le premier ministre, Nouri Al-Maliki, le 5 décembre, aura lieu à partir du 16décembre. Annoncée de longue date, c~tte conférence a été reportée à plu- SIeurs reprises. Elle doit théoriquement réunir «( toutes lesforc'es politiques» irakiennes pour tenter de mettre un terme aux affrontements confessionnels qui ravagent le pays. Le Comité des oulémas musulmans _la principale organisation religieuse s~n- nite, a cependant annoncé aussItôt vendredi qu'i! allait la boycotter. « Le Comité ne participera pas à la conférence de réconciliation nationale organisée par le gouvernement. Nous avons trop vu par le passé le gouvernement signer des accords qu'il a plus tard dénoncés », a expliqué Mohammad Bashar Al-Faidhi, porteparole de l'association. Une enquête a été ouverte en Irak contre le responsable du Comité des oulémas, Hareth Al-Dhari, accusé d'inciter à la violence confessionnelle. Ce dernier a depuis quitté l'ak. Ir En marge de ces" controverses l'armée américaine se retrouve au cen~e d'une nouvelle polémique après la mort de 20 personnes dans un raid mené au nord de Bagdad, vendredi matin. Ce raid visait, selon elle, des « terroristes» d'Al- Qaida. Des témoins irakiens ont en revanche indiqué que cette opération avait entraîné la mort de «femmes et d'enfants innocents ». Le lieutenant-colonel Christo- ftlJton~t Dimanche 10 - Lundi Il décembre 2006 pher Garver, porte-parole de l'armée américaine, a affirmé que l'armée a vérifié qui étaient les victimes. « Il ny avait aucun enfant parmi les terroristes tués. Malheureusement, les terroristes sont connus pour leur capacité à exagérer ou falsifier les informations après les succès d~ opérations de la coalition », a-t-il affirmé. Enfin, le chef des services saoudiens de renseignement, le prince Muqrin Ben Abdelaziz Al-Saoud, a affirmé vendredi , " a Manama (Bahreïn) que le maintien de la présence des troupes américaines en Irak contribuait à « créer plus de terroristes ». Il a toutefois estimé que le moment n'était pas venu pour ces troupes de quitter l'Irak, mais a souhaité l'établissement d'un calendrier pour leur retrait. L'Iran, de son côté, s'est dit prêt, dans certaines circonstances, à « aider» les Etats-Unis à retirer leurs troupes d'Irak, par la voix du ministre iranien des affaires étrangères, Manouchehr Mottaki samedi à Manama. - (AFP.) , Iran draws Holocaust skeptics to conference Dy Nazila Fathi TEHRAN: Holocaust deniers and skeptics from around the world gathered at a government-sponsored conference here Monday to discuss their theories about whether six million Jews were indeed killed by the Nazis during World War II and whether gas chambers existed. ln a speech opening the two-day conference, Rasoul Mousav~ head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Institute for Political and International Studies, which organized the event, said the conference was an opportunity for scholars to discuss the subject "away from Western taboos and the restriction imposed on them in Europe." The Foreign Ministry had said that 67 foreign researchers from 30 countries were scheduled to take part. Among those speaking on Monday were David Duke, the American white-supremacist 1{l'ralb~Ü:0ribltnl' December 12,2006 politician and former Ku Klux Klan leader, and Georges Thiel, a French writer who has been prosecuted in France over his denials of the Holocaust. Duke's remarks were expected to assert that no gas chambers or extermination camps were built during the war, on the ground that killing Jews that way would have been much too bothersome and expensive when the Nazis could have used much simpler methods, according to an advance summary published by the institute. "Depicting Jews as the overwhelming victims of the Holocaust gave the moral high ground to the Allies as victors of the war and allowed Jews to establish a state on the occupied land of Palestine," Duke's paper says, according to the summary. One of the first scheduled speakers, Robert Faurisson of France, also called the Holocaust a myth created to justify the occupation of Palestine. The conference prompted outrage in the West. The German government summoned the Iranian chargé d'affaires in Berlin to protest. The French foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy, warned that the conference would be strongly condemned if it propagated daims denying the Holocaust. The conference was being held at the behest of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who likewise ca lIed the Holocaust a myth last year, and repeated a well-known slogan from the early days of the 1979 revolution in Iran: "Israel must be wiped off the map." He has spoken several times since then about a need to establish whether the Holocaust actually happened. Most of the speakers at the conference on Monday praised Ahmadinejad's comments. Bendikt Frings, 48, a psychologist from Germany, said he believed Ahmadinejad was "an honest, direct man," and said he had come to the conference to thank him. "We are forbidden to have such a conference in Germany," he said. "AlI my childhood, we waited for something like this." Fredrick Toben, from Australia, said Ahmadinejad had opened an issue "which is morally and intellectually crippling the Western society." . He said he was jailed for six months in 1999 because of his ideas, and that a court in Germany had ordered him arrested if he spoke out publicly again denying that the Holocaust took place. The conference induded an exhibition of various photos, posters and other material meant to contradict the accepted version of events, that the Nazis murdered millions of Jews and other "undesirables" in death camps during the war. New captions in Persian on some familiar photos of corpses at the camps argued that they were victims of typhus, not the German state. Anti-Zionist literature, induding a 2004 book by the American author Michael Collins Piper, about Zionist influence in America, was on display. 50, apparently, was a video recording of 12 Holocaust survivors telling their stories, suggesting that the views iepresented at the conference may not have been entirely one-sided. 39
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Ozeti Barry R. McCaffrey Beyond Baker-Hamilton One Approach to a Last Try at Stability in Iraq Special Operations forces have suffered 25,000 wounded and killed, with many A collapse of the Iraqi state would be catastrophic - for the people of Iraq, for the Middle East and for America's strategie interests. We need a new political and military approach to head offthis impending disaster - one crafted with bipartisan congressional support. But Baker- Hamilton isn't il. Our objective should be a large-scale D.S. military withdrawal within the next 36 months, leaving in place an Iraqi government in a stable and mostly peaceful country that does not threaten its six neighboring states and does not intend to possess weapons of mass destruction. The courage and ski1l of the D.S. armed forces have been awe-inspiring. Our soldiers, Marines and- thousands permanently maimed, while fighting this $400 billionwar. But the situation in Iraq is perilous and growing worse. Thousands of Iraqis are killed each month; hundreds of thousands are refugees. The govern- arena, it would be feasible to equip and increase the Iraqi armed forces on a crash basis over the next 24 months (but not the police or the Facilities Protection Service). The goal would be 250,000 troops, provided with the material and training necessary to maintain internal order. Within the tirst 12 months we should draw down the D.S. military presence from 15 Brigade Combat Teams (Bers), of 5,000 troops each, to 10. Within the next 12 months, Centcom forces should further draw down to seven Bers and withdraw from urban areas to isolated D.S. operating bases - where we could continue to provide oversight and intervention when required to rescue our ment of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki u.s. troops inspect the site of an attack on an American is largely dysfunctional. convoy in Kirkuk, northem Iraq, earlier this month. Our allies, in- cluding the brave and competent British, embedded D.S. training teams, protect BY YAmA AHMED - ASSOCIATED PRESS are nearly gone. Baghdad bas become the the population from violence or save the central battlefield in this struggle, which legal government. involves not just politically inspired civil, Finally, we have to design and empowwar but alllOrampant criminality and vio- er a regional diplomatie peace dialogue in lence carried out by foreign jihadists. Shi- which the Iraqis can take the lead, engagite and Sunni Arabs overwhelmingly an- ing their regional neighbors as well as ticipate and endorse a D.S. strategie their own alienated and fractured internal withdrawal and defeat. population. We could immediatelyand totally with- We are in a very difficult position creatdraw. ln less than six months, our ed by a micromanaged Rumsfeld war 150,000 troops could fight their way team that has been incompetent, arroalong strategie withdrawal corridors gant and in denial. The departing defense back to the sea and the safety provided by secretary, in a recent farewell Pentagon the Navy. Several million terrified refu- town hall meeting, criticized the alleged gees would follow, the route of our col- distortions of the D.S. media, saying that urnns marked by the burning pyres of they chose to report a few bombs going abandoned military supplies demolished off in Baghdad rather than the peaceful byour rear guard. The resulting civil warfare would probably turn Iraq into a hu- scene he witnessed from his helicopter manitarian disaster and might well draw tlying over the city. This was a perleet, in the Iranians and Syrians. Itwould also and incredJ.ble, continuation of Donald deeply threaten the safety and stability of Rumsfeld's willful blindness in his apour allies in neighboring countries. proach to the war. From the safety of his There is a better option. First, we must helicopter, he apparently could not hear commit publicly to provide $10 billion a the nearly constant rattle of small-arms year in eeonomic support to the Iraqis tire, did not know of the hundreds of over the next five years. ln the military Marines and soldiers being killed or wounded each month, or see the chaos, murder and desperation of daily life for Iraqi families. Let me add a note of caution regarding a deceptive and unwise option that springs from the work of the Iraq Study Group. We must not entertain the shallow, partisan notion of rapidly withdrawing most organized Marine and Army fighting units by early 2008 and substituting for them a much larger number of D.S. advisers - a 400 percent increase - as a way to avoid a difficult debate for both parties in the New Hampshire primaries. This would leave sorne 40,000 D.S. 10- gistics and adviser troops spread out and vulnerable, all over Iraq. It would decrease our leverage with Iraq's neighbors. It would not get at the problem of a continuing civil war. ln fact, significantly increasing the number of D.S. advisers in each company and battalion of the Iraqi army and police - to act as role models - is itself a bad idea. We are foreigners. They WllQtus gone. Lack of combat experience is not the central issue Iraqis face. Their problems are corrupt and incompetent ministries, poor equipment, an untrained and unreliable sectarian officer corvo (a result of Rumsfeld's disbanding the Iraqi army), and a lack of political will caused by the failure of a legitimate Iraqi government to emerge. We need fewer advisers, not more - seleeted from elite, active military units and with at least 90 days of immersion . training in Arabie. Iraqi troops will not fight because of iron discipline enforced by D.S. sergeants and officers. That is a self-serving domestic political concept that would put us at risk of a national military humiliation. AIl of this may not work. We have very few options left. ln my judgment, taking down the Saddam Hussein regime was a huge gift to the Iraqi people. Done right, it might have left the region and the Dnited States safer for years to come. But the American people have withdrawn their support for the war, although they remain intensely committed to and protective of our armed forces. We have run out of time. Our troops and their families will remain bitter for a generation if we abandon the Iraqis, just as another generation did after we abandoned the South Vietnamese for whom Americans had fought and died. We owe them and our own national interest this one last effort. fi we cannot generate the political will to take this action, it is time to pull out and search for those we will hold responsible in Congress and the administration. The writer is a retired Army general and adjutant professor of international affairs at WestPoint. He servedfour combat tours and was wounded in action three times. 40
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