[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/histoire-et-actualit%C3%A9s-45/topic/la-3%C3%A8me-guerre-mondiale-a-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-commenc%C3%A9-420/?post=98852#post-98852]nico2[/url] a dit le 10/05/2014 à 22:34 :[/b]

Ou comment une fusillade au Yémen éclaire les opérations menées par les USA sur place, en toute mais relative discrétion.

[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/world/middleeast/yemen-silent-on-disclosure-of-shooting-by-americans.html?_r=0]Yemen Shooting Opens Window on U.S. Clandestine Operations[/url] {NY Times}.

[quote]The kidnappers pulled up in a pickup truck outside the Taj barbershop in an upscale neighborhood here in the Yemeni capital last month. One held an automatic weapon and the other carried a stun gun. As the men went inside, nearby shopkeepers heard shots.

Then a foreigner — tall, with the physique of a body builder, and holding a black gun — was seen standing over one of the mortally wounded attackers in the doorway of the barbershop, witnesses said. The foreigner kicked an automatic weapon out of the man’s hands, looked right and left down the street, jumped into a nearby sport utility vehicle and drove away.

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In Washington, spokesmen for the State Department, Pentagon and C.I.A. declined on Saturday to provide any details about the initial shooting. The State Department acknowledged on Friday night only that two United States Embassy officers had shot and killed two assailants who tried to kidnap them, and that the shooting was under investigation. One senior American official identified the Americans as a Special Operations commando and a C.I.A. officer.

The shooting, on April 24, has offered a rare glimpse into American clandestine operations in Yemen, a major battleground against what counterterrorism officials say is Al Qaeda’s most dangerous regional affiliate.[/quote][/quote]