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lundi 23 février 2009

Les phrases du jour 23/02/09 - Arthur Chaskalson

Les phrases du jour 23/02/09 - Arthur Chaskalson

"Il ne faut pas sous-estimer la menace terroriste. Les Etats ont le devoir de lutter contre ce fléau, mais les mesures qu’ils ont adoptées constituent des atteintes aux droits de l’homme bien plus graves qu’on ne pourrait l’imaginer."

Arthur Chaskalson, ancien président de la Cour constitutionnelle d’Afrique du Sud


Un comité de huit éminents juristes internationaux publie une enquête inédite sur les dégâts de la lutte contre le terrorisme dans le monde.

Leur conclusion: combattre Al-Qaeda n’implique pas de tordre le cou aux droits fondamentaux.

Comité d'éminents juristes sur le terrorisme, la lutte contre le terrorisme et les droits de l'homme

 

vendredi 18 avril 2008

Repères 18/04/08 - 2001-2008 : La multiplication des attentats-suicide

Repères 18/04/08 - 2001-2008 : La multiplication des attentats-suicide

Since 2001, a Dramatic Increase in Suicide Bombings
Washington Post April 18, 2008

"Suicide bombers conducted 658 attacks around the world last year, including 542 in U.S.-occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, according to data compiled by U.S. government experts.

The large number of attacks -- more than double the number in any of the past 25 years -- reflects a trend that has surprised and worried U.S. intelligence and military analysts.

More than four-fifths of the suicide bombings over that period have occurred in the past seven years, the data show. The bombings have spread to dozens of countries on five continents, killed more than 21,350 people and injured about 50,000 since 1983, when a landmark attack blew up the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.

Today is the 25-year anniversary of that attack, the first of a series of large suicide bombings targeting Americans overseas.

"Increasingly, we are seeing the globalization of suicide bombs, no longer confined to conflict zones but happening anywhere," said Mohammed Hafez of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and author of the book "Suicide Bombers in Iraq." He calls the contemporary perpetrators "martyrs without borders."

The unpublished data show that since 1983, bombers in more than 50 groups from Argentina to Algeria, Croatia to China, and India to Indonesia have adapted car bombs to make explosive belts, vests, toys, motorcycles, bikes, boats, backpacks and false-pregnancy stomachs.

Of 1,840 incidents in the past 25 years, more than 86 percent have occurred since 2001, and the highest annual numbers have occurred in the past four years. The sources who provided the data to The Washington Post asked that they not be identified because of the sensitivity of the tallies.

The data show more than 920 suicide bombings in Iraq and more than 260 in Afghanistan, including some that killed scores of U.S. troops. All occurred after the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003..."

 

vendredi 11 avril 2008

Repères 11/04/08 - Les Organisations terroristes ciblées par les Etats-Unis

Repères 11/04/08 - Les Organisations terroristes ciblées par les Etats-Unis

Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Fact Sheet - Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Washington, DC, April 8, 2008

"Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.

Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations

 1 - Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
 2 - Abu Sayyaf Group
 3 - Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
 4 - Al-Shabaab
 5 - Ansar al-Islam
 6 - Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
 7 - Asbat al-Ansar
 8 - Aum Shinrikyo
 9 - Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
10 - Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA)
11 - Continuity Irish Republican Army
12 - Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
13 - HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
14 - Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
15 - Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
16 - Hizballah (Party of God)
17 - Islamic Jihad Group
18 - Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
19 - Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
20 - Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)
21 - al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
22 - Kahane Chai (Kach)
23 - Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, KADEK)
24 - Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
25 - Lashkar i Jhangvi
26 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
27 - Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
28 - Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
29 - Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
30 - National Liberation Army (ELN)
31 - Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
32 - Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
33 - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLF)
34 - PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
35 - Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) (al-Qaida in Iraq) (formerly Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad, JTJ, al-Zarqawi Network)
36 - al-Qa’ida
37 - al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (formerly GSPC)
38 - Real IRA
39 - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
40 - Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA)
41 - Revolutionary Organization 17 November
42 - Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
43 - Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
44 - United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)

    ..."

 

lundi 31 mars 2008

Repères 31/03/08 - Les nouvelles stratégies d'Al Qaeda

Repères 31/03/08 - Les nouvelles stratégies d'Al Qaeda

Interviewé Dimanche 30 Mars dans l'émission "Meet the press" sur la chaîne de télévision NBC, le général Michael Hayden, directeur de la CIA, a déclaré qu’Al-Qaeda recrutait et entraînait des terroristes "d'allure occidentale" pour commettre des attentats sur le territoire américain. Les nouvelles recrues qui ont rejoint les sanctuaires d’Al-Qaeda au Pakistan, espéraient ainsi "franchir la frontière des Etats-Unis sans attirer l'attention comme d'autres le pourraient."

Selon le directeur de la CIA, "Al-Qaeda a constitué ces 18 derniers mois un havre de paix le long de la frontière afghano-pakistanaise, et fait rentrer des agents dans la région pour les entraîner."

Pour le général Michael Hayden, enfin, Oussama Ben Laden, qui se cacherait dans ces mêmes zones tribales, ne détiendrait plus le contrôle de la nébuleuse terroriste. "De très nombreux responsables opérationnels d'Al-Qaeda sont égyptiens", a-t-il ajouté.

 

Meet the press
NBC 30/03/08

 

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