Posted on 09/06/2005 11:05:47 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Troops find grisly scenes in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Troops scouring New Orleans for survivors and victims reported finding at least 40 mutilated bodies in the Convention Center refugee center.
Arkansas National Guardsman Mikel Brooks told the New Orleans Times Picayune many of the dead were elderly, or showed signs of trauma.
"There's another one in the freezer, a 7-year-old with her throat cut," he said.
As the searches became more organized since the Aug. 29 onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said repair crews had patched the ruptured levee along the 17th Street Canal and had begun pumping out water.
The failure of the levee system after the storm left about 80 percent of the city flooded up to 20 feet deep, and Corps officials said it would take nearly three months to drain some neighborhoods, CNN reported.
Deputy Police Chief Warren Riley told reporters that thousands of people -- many of them with pets -- are insisting on staying in what he called "a hazard."
"We advise people that this city has been destroyed. It has been completely destroyed," Riley said.
when British students said things inside were horrific, more than a few freepers dismissed the "rumors," apparently because they reflect badly on FEMA as well as on the local authorities. Can't dismiss these atrocities as rumors anymore
Yes the local authorities are incompetent, so is the FEMA director and the Homeland Security director. If this is "homeland security," you'd better hope we don't have a terrorist attack, because all that tax money shoveled at federal "homeland security" isn't going to buy us any security.
Read El Gato's post 187 and that should remove any doubt. As someone posted also, the mutilation aspect may partly be explained if the cannabalism stories are true.
FEMA is not a first-response agency, nor is it intended to be.
FEMA required a plan for evacuation, which Nagin did not follow.
"If this is "homeland security," you'd better hope we don't have a terrorist attack, because all that tax money shoveled at federal "homeland security" isn't going to buy us any security"
So homeland security is supposed to protect us from widespread reversion to less than animal behavior by our own population, our own neighbors? I don't get it.
Coming from a place where they shoot at those who try to rescue them, I do not doubt.
I don't want to imagine it, but too late, I read about it... and I cannot discern the difference between rage and frantic bewilderment...
The British and Australians gave their names when interviewed, I think that is noteworthy; they are not anonymous sources.
If need be they could be interviewed by the FBI or whomever.
There are a LOT of coroners in the disaster area or enroute; no doubt every body will be assessed by a skilled medical professional.
the people who did this - are in the astrodome now.
Maybe an SUV is at fault. I haven't heard this on the MSM.
Just another isolated incident.
A lot of those people in New Orleans (formerly) think that pagan practice is rather cute, don't they?
White people did this
I'm wondering why Nagin sent the cops to Las Vegas and Atlanta. Did Nagin send the cops away so no one could question them about how they failed in controlling the violence?
Can't blame it on FEMA either.
They aren't armed.
I read that the man who raped and slit the throat of the seven year old, was then attacked by seven or eight men and beaten to death. Maybe this will soon be confirmed.
For all the M. Savage bashing on FR, he truly was ahead of the curve in calling the enemy by its name, a mental disorder with deadly results.
I can't stand this over primped, over pampered, over placated C$%^ to begin with, so I had no problem calling her out.
The city and state are to blame for corraling these people like pigs in a pen with no security, food, water, toilets, or basic sanitation.
Yes many acted liked pigs, but you can't blame many of the people for what happened.
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