on Friday, killing its two pilots, in a rare instance of American air power being challenged by guerrillas on the ground. Just six days earlier, all 12 people aboard were killed when a Black Hawk helicopter went down close to the nearby northern city of Tal Afar, though that has so far been blamed on weather.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl y a des doutes extr\u00eames pour ce qui concerne les prises de position officielles US concernant la destruction d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res en Irak. La politique officielle est d’en dire le moins possible et, quand la possibilit\u00e9 s’en pr\u00e9sente, de d\u00e9guiser en accident une intervention hostile. Pour les Am\u00e9ricains, la vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 des h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res est un des maillons faibles de leur logistique en Irak. Une part importante des communications, du ravitaillement et des interventions arm\u00e9es ponctuelles se fait \u00e0 l’aide d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res. La vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 de ces engins aux tirs de sol, y compris des armes individuelles (des missiles sol-air portables aux simples armes automatiques), est connue. Une trop grande publicit\u00e9 faite \u00e0 la destruction d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res US pourrait susciter une \u00e9mulation dans les divers groupes hostiles, craint le commandement US. On comprend \u00e9videmment les r\u00e9percussions que pourrait avoir une augmentation des pertes d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tQuoiqu’il en soit, la destruction de ces trois h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res en une d\u00e9cade constitue un \u00e9v\u00e9nement nouveau dans la guerre d’Irak. C’est le m\u00eame chiffre (trois) que le nombre d’h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res US abattus durant toute l’ann\u00e9e 2004.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 16 janvier 2006 \u00e0 13H39<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
En neuf jours, trois h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res am\u00e9ricains ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9truits en Irak. La question pos\u00e9e est de savoir si ces trois destructions sont dues ou non \u00e0 des attaques hostiles. Voici ce qu’en dit la d\u00e9p\u00e8che Reuters annon\u00e7ant la destruction d’un nouvel h\u00e9licopt\u00e8re ce matin pr\u00e8s de Bagdad: \u00ab A U.S. helicopter crashed just north of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3916,857],"class_list":["post-67183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-helicopteres","tag-irak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}