News - September 3, 2005

New Orleans Left to the Dead and Dying - "No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050903/D8CD2PEO0.html

Horrible scenes at New Orleans airport - "I cannot believe what I am seeing here in the New Orleans area. I’ve been reporting for 21 years around the world and I've never seen the likes of this. ... The airport, meantime, has been converted into a triage center. There are so many bodies that medical staff are using the baggage conveyor to carry the stretchers."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9175928

Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans - " Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. “This place is going to look like Little Somalia.""
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php

Homeland Security won't let Red Cross deliver food - "As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans convention center yesterday, American Red Cross officials said that federal emergency management authorities would not allow them to do the same. Other relief agencies say the area is so damaged and dangerous that they doubted they could conduct mass feeding there now."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm

FEMA director struggles to defend Katrina response - "In a Thursday interview with ABC-TV's "Nightline," Brown told host Ted Koppel that until that morning, he had understood there were about 5,000 people in the convention center and that their needs were being met. Koppel quickly took him to task. "Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the radio?" he demanded. "Our reporters have been reporting it for more than just today.""
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/politics/12548390.htm

Hurricane Katrina and the War in Iraq - "As it is beginning to appear that the death toll in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina may surpass that of 9/11, once again questions are being raised regarding the Bush administration's distorted views as to what constitutes national security."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0903-21.htm

Bush says US can handle Iraq, Katrina - "Some US lawmakers have asked that Washington call home members of the National Guard whose homes were devastated by the storm, others worry about the multi-billion-dollar pricetag of funding both ventures. "I just completely disagree," said the president." -- This man has to go, people. Where are the impeachment hearings?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050902/wl_mideast_afp/usweatherbushiraq

American Caesar - "The Iraq war is not the only reason for insisting that the Bush administration deserves some blame for the magnitude of the still-unfolding catastrophe. After 9/11, the president promised that the nation would never again be so unprepared in the face of disaster. The Department of Homeland Security was created with a view to ensuring that every American city had adequate emergency plans in place for the kind of large-scale crisis that could accompany either a terrorist attack or a natural disaster. It was an empty promise. Four years after 9/11, the fiasco in New Orleans underscores our nation's ongoing inability to cope with serious threats."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0903-24.htm

Former CIA Director Tenet Threatens Disclosures? - "Former CIA director George Tenet, said to be the target of what the Washington Times called "a scathing report by Inspector General John Helgerson” - may go public with embarrassing disclosures about the Bush administration and its actions leading up to Sept. 11, 2001."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/2/110832.shtml

Gallup Refuses To Run Poll Asking Americans If Bush Should Be Impeached - "Behind the scenes, independent Democrats who are not “bought and paid off ” by the neo-cons have been pushing the Gallup Poll organization to conduct a nationwide inquiry, asking Americans if they support the impeachment of President George Bush. But Gallup officials this week categorically refused to poll Americans, telling Bob Fertik, Democrats for Unity president until impeachment was discussed by congressional leaders or news commentators in the media, it was their official policy to refrain from asking hypothetical questions."
http://www.arcticbeacon.citymaker.com/articles/article/1518131/32636.htm

Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths - "Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited, according to a class held Wedensday at the annual training meeting of the High Tech Crime Investigation Association. Investigators know the location of the IE browser cache, cookie files and history, and they know how to read those files. Also, popular forensics tools can help out. But that story changes when it comes to alternative Web browsers such as Firefox and Opera."
http://news.com.com/Alternative+browsers+pose+challenge+for+cybersleuths/2100-7348_3-5845409.html?tag=nefd.pop




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