Guerre de l’information autour de l’attaque contre le navire israélien

L’attaque subie par le navire israélien de la part du hezbollah a surpris les experts des marines occidentales. Quelque soit le vecteur portant la charge explosive (drone ou missile antinavire), cette attaque contre un des navires furtifs les plus modernes de la marine israélienne démontre la capacité de nuisance de groupes terroristes aidées par des puissances étrangères.

Plusieurs versions circulent sur le net à propos de cette attaque.

Voici la version israélienne donnée sur le site www.debka.com.

Hizballah Brings out Iranian Silkworm to Hit Israel Navy Corvette
Source : DEBKAfile Exclusive Military Analysis
July 15, 2006, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
 
The disaster that overtook one of the Israeli Navy’s state of the art warships, Ahi-Hanit, was thoroughly planned in advance by an enemy which managed to take Israel’s military commanders by surprise. It has shocked Israel’s military to a degree comparable to the profound effect on US forces of al Qaeda’s 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Aden.
The Saar-5 class corvette, with a crew of 61 seamen and a 10-man helicopter crew, was hit Friday, July 17 at 20:15 hours, while shelling Beirut international airport. Four crewmen were reported missing. One was found dead Saturday aboard the crippled ship. He is First Sgt Tal Amgar, 21, from Ashdod. The search continues for three missing crewmen, Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitch, 21, from Haifa, Corp. Shai Atias, 19, from Rishon Lezion and Master Sgt. Dov Shternschuss, 37, from Carmiel.

Voici une autre version :

http://forum.atimes.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8023
Robster, You were right ….it was a drone. Debka.com made a mistake! Here is the full report…. written by Joseph Federman and posted on July 14, 2006:
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/07/14/ap2880516.html
Armando Rozário <petroamerica@gmail.com> Cabo Frio - Brazil - July 15, 2006
P.S. A slow ….low flying drone hit a modern Israeli missle ship? From this report, the damage caused was widespread, with four missing sailors! WERE THE BOMBARMENTS WORTH THE LIVES OF FOUR ISRAELI SAILORS?! [A.R.]
 

Associated Press
Israel Says Warship Attacked by Drone
By JOSEF FEDERMAN , 07.14.2006, 06:42 PM
 

An unmanned Hezbollah aircraft rigged with explosives rammed into an Israeli warship late Friday, causing heavy damage and fire on the vessel, Israeli military officials said. The attack by the remote-controlled drone indicated that Hezbollah has added a new weapon to the arsenal of rockets and mortars it has used against Israeli troops. The army said a missile ship carrying several dozen sailors suffered severe damage and was set on fire. Several hours after the attack, the fire was put out and the ship was being towed back to Israel, officials said. The military officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to the media. There was no word on casualties, though the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera reported the Israeli military was searching for four missing sailors after the ship was hit. In an official statement, the army spokesman’s office would say only that the cause of the attack was still under investigation. Hezbollah has never before used a remote-controlled unmanned aircraft to attack Israel. But in a signal of its growing capabilities, the guerrilla group has twice managed to fly spy drones over northern Israel in recent years. The drones caused great concern in Israel because they evaded the country’s air defenses. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV had reported earlier Friday that guerrillas attacked an Israeli warship that had been firing missiles into south Beirut. "Now in the middle of the sea, facing Beirut, the Israeli warship that has attacked the infrastructure, people’s homes and civilians - look at it burning," Hezbollah’s leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said. The prerecorded audiotape was aired shortly after Israeli missiles struck Hezbollah headquarters and Nasrallah’s house in south Beirut. The station showed a video purportedly showing an Israeli warship hit by Hezbollah. The video aired a few seconds of nighttime pictures of an object flying over a city and falling in the distance, where it exploded. Al-Manar said this depicted the attack on the Israeli warship off the coast of Lebanon. The footage was unclear and it could not be seen what the object hit.