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Old 09-02-2005, 07:37 AM   #1 (permalink)
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New Orleans rocked by huge blasts

The New Orleans riverfront has been hit by a series of massive blasts, and fires are raging in the area.
The blasts are believed to have involved a chemical factory and police have sent a team to see if toxic fumes have been released.

The news came as extra troops were sent to quell lawlessness in the city, where thousands are stranded without food or water in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.

President Bush has admitted that the initial response was "not acceptable".

"We're going to get on top of this situation," he said, as he left the White House for a tour of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.



"And we're going to help the people that need help."

Thousands are feared to have perished in the hurricane and floods, or while waiting for help.

The Senate has approved $10.5bn (£5.7bn) emergency aid, which the House of Representatives is expected to back within the next 24 hours.


But the head of the New Orleans emergency operations described the relief effort as a national disgrace.


Map of central New Orleans
And Mayor Ray Nagin has angrily denounced the level of outside help the city has received. "People are dying here," he said.

'Shoot to kill'

A large cloud of acrid, black smoke is drifting over New Orleans following Friday's blast along the Mississippi riverfront.

The incident in the already crippled city came after Louisiana's governor said 300 "battle-tested" National Guardsmen were being sent to quell the unrest.

"They have M-16s and are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will," Kathleen Blanco said.

Washington pledged a further 4,200 guardsmen in coming days, and said that 3,000 army soldiers may also be sent to the city where violence has disrupted relief efforts.

The deployment came as thousands were finally taken from the Louisiana Superdome, where up to 20,000 have been corralled amid heat and squalor since Katrina struck.

But up to 60,000 could still be stranded in the city, the US coastguard says.

Looting has swept the city as people made homeless by the flooding have grown increasingly desperate.

There have also been outbreaks of shootings and carjackings and reports of rapes.

The federal emergency agency was trying to work "under conditions of urban warfare", director Michael Brown said.

The situation at the city's convention centre, where up to 20,000 other residents sought refuge, was also said to be desperate.

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Old 09-02-2005, 08:32 PM   #2 (permalink)
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It really does seem like something out of a third world country.

You can't really fathom something like this happening in the U.S.
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Old 09-02-2005, 08:45 PM   #3 (permalink)
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WTF is with the rapes?
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Old 09-02-2005, 09:54 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Some people see this as a chance, they are sick. I hope once law returns, we can find these people and bring justice.
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Old 09-03-2005, 01:02 AM   #5 (permalink)
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there was a report of the mayor having to recall 1,500 police officers from search and rescue missions to stop the looting. it's fuckin sad that because some asshole wants that new tv, some person is gonna have to die. sometimes, the way we humans act selfishly sickens me to death.
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