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| Troops find 40 mutilated bodies at New Orleans convention center | |
| 2005-09-06 | |
| 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.
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. | |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #13 When I first saw this headline man. I hope this isn't confirmed. I'm starting to lose faith in our american citizens here with all of the OMG stories that have been coming out of there. I know some guys that are being deployed to NO, and I hope that I don't hear of any of them getting killed. The true tragedy in my mind is how our citizens have been behaving. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-09-06 23:43 |
| #12 yep |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-06 23:04 |
| #11 the French Quarter will be EXACTLY the way it was That is part of the problem Frank. I think if they rebuild NO, it will be EXCACTLY the way it was too. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-09-06 22:32 |
| #10 I don't believe the Quarter was damaged much. It wasn't flooded .... |
| Posted by: Omerens Omaigum2983 2005-09-06 22:01 |
| #9 the French Quarter will be EXACTLY the way it was |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-06 21:58 |
| #8 ZF -- I doubt the French Quarter will have changed all that much. It's been through worse before. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-06 21:58 |
| #7 Awright - it's time for me to rent the John Woo/Van Damme movie - Hard Target, which covers chunks of the French Quarter. I don't think much of NO is going to be the way it was before. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-09-06 21:55 |
| #6 Mrs. D, it's not fair to pick on the mentally unarmed like that! ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-09-06 21:19 |
| #5 I understand that as a result of high winds, all the left handed smoke shifters in the NO area were destropyed. Lot's of people cooking over open fires are now having severe lung congestion due to the absence of these invaluable tools. Until some can be shipped in from the Army depost, perhaps the reporters should be sent out to look for some that may have escaped damage in the storm. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-09-06 19:55 |
| #4 The bit where the men were shot earlier by cops - were the cops wearing their uniforms - and were they visible? I'm starting to think that some of the gunshot victims might have been civic-minded armed citizens looking for looters. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-09-06 19:43 |
| #3 I'm starting to think that the troops are pulling reporters' legs to see how gullible they are. The answer appears to be that they (and newspaper readers) will believe anything. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-09-06 19:40 |
| #2 The only hits I can find for a Mikel Brooks is a Specialist who was some sort of infantryman on the Sinai peacekeeping detail a couple years ago, and a few unenlightening blog comments here and there. (Nothing political - don't get excited.) I'm going to guess that some chowderhead of a reporter grilled the sentry standing guard outside of the convention center who wouldn't let said reporter in to look around, and quoted him repeating a bunch of juicy gossip, which said sentry wouldn't have seen himself since he's, y'know, stuck guarding the front door of an empty convention center. I have no proof that this is the truth, but when did that ever stop the rumor machine when we're in full gear? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2005-09-06 16:14 |
| #1 I haven't been able to find a second source for this on any of the news services. The closest I could find was a Friday Sept. 2 Reuters story that was not true: She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the young girl went missing from her parents inside the convention center. "She was raped for four hours until she was dead," Joseph said through tears. "Another child, a seven-year old boy was found raped and murdered in the kitchen freezer last night." My bet is that ScienceDaily is reprinting the Reuters' rumor-as-fact. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-09-06 15:30 |