{"id":68500,"date":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/08\/des-helicopteres-et-des-hommes-la-question-des-pertes-us-prend-de-limportance\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","slug":"des-helicopteres-et-des-hommes-la-question-des-pertes-us-prend-de-limportance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/08\/des-helicopteres-et-des-hommes-la-question-des-pertes-us-prend-de-limportance\/","title":{"rendered":"Des h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res et des hommes : la question des pertes US prend de l&rsquo;importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>D&rsquo;abord, il y a la question des h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res. Cinq h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res d\u00e9truits en deux semaines, sans doute abattus par des missiles sol-air. Hier, c&rsquo;\u00e9tait un CH 46 <em>Sea Knight<\/em> des Marines, avec sept personnes \u00e0 bord (toutes tu\u00e9es).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tSelon Patrick Cockburn, de <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/middle_east\/article2248779.ece\" class=\"gen\">The Independent<\/a> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Fears that Iraqi insurgents may be using either improved missiles or better tactics mounted after the fifth helicopter in just over two weeks was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile north-west of Baghdad.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The US Sea Knight was hit yesterday killing all seven people on board, according to an Iraqi air force official.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The helicopter was flying and passed over us, then we heard the firing of a missile, said Mohammed al-Janabi, a farmer who was speaking less than half a mile from the wreckage of the twin-rotor C-46 troop carrier. The helicopter then turned into a ball of fire. It flew in a circle twice, then it went down.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Flames and a huge plume of black smoke rose from the crash site not far from a farm house. Helicopters buzzed overhead and US troops rushed to prevent anybody else reaching the wreckage, 20 miles north-west of the capital near the town of Taji in an area where the Sunni insurgents have always been strong. The US forces in Iraq depend heavily on helicopters because patrols are frequently attacked by bombs in or beside the roads.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa question de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res US se pose r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement, \u00e0 cause de la vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 de ces machines et de leur emploi intensif. Une capacit\u00e9 s\u00e9rieuse des r\u00e9sistants et des insurg\u00e9s contre les h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res poserait un tr\u00e8s grave probl\u00e8me de soutien et de logistique aux forces US, lesquelles d\u00e9pendent totalement du soutien et de la logistique et n&rsquo;ont aucune capacit\u00e9 d&rsquo;adaptation et d&rsquo;autonomie. La question de la vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 des h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 pos\u00e9e mais l&rsquo;aggravation constante de la situation qui va de pair avec la puissance en augmentation de la r\u00e9sistance fait penser que le temps qui passe rend plus en plus probables le s\u00e9rieux et la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de cette menace. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tParall\u00e8lement, les bilans des pertes humaines t\u00e9moignent de l&rsquo;aggravation de la situation. La p\u00e9riode des quatre derniers mois a \u00e9t\u00e9 la plus sanglante pour les forces US de toute la guerre depuis mars 2003.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tAP, via <em>USA Today<\/em> rend compte le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2007-02-07-troops-toll_x.htm\" class=\"gen\">7 f\u00e9vrier<\/a> de cette situation et l&rsquo;analyse longuement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>More American troops were killed in combat in Iraq over the past four months  at least 334 through Jan. 31  than in any comparable stretch since the war began, according to an Associated Press analysis of casualty records.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tNot since the bloody battle for Fallujah in 2004 has the death toll spiked so high.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The reason is that U.S. soldiers and Marines are fighting more battles in the streets of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and other cities. And while hostile forces are using a variety of weaponry, the top killer is the roadside bomb.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>In some respects it is the urban warfare that U.S. commanders thought they had managed to largely avoid after U.S. troops entered Baghdad in early April 2003 and quickly toppled the Saddam Hussein regime.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>And with President Bush now sending thousands more U.S. troops to Baghdad and western Anbar province, despite opposition in Congress and the American public&rsquo;s increasing war weariness, the prospect looms of even higher casualties.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 8 f\u00e9vrier 2007 \u00e0 08H22<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&rsquo;abord, il y a la question des h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res. Cinq h\u00e9licopt\u00e8res d\u00e9truits en deux semaines, sans doute abattus par des missiles sol-air. Hier, c&rsquo;\u00e9tait un CH 46 Sea Knight des Marines, avec sept personnes \u00e0 bord (toutes tu\u00e9es). Selon Patrick Cockburn, de The Independent : \u00abFears that Iraqi insurgents may be using either improved missiles or&hellip;&nbsp;<\/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":[3143,3916,857,2970,4394,6413],"class_list":["post-68500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-air","tag-helicopteres","tag-irak","tag-missiles","tag-pertes","tag-sol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68500","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=68500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}