http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/27/katrina.body/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Two FEMA temporary workers arrested on fraud, bribery charges

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- With the final death toll yet to be tallied, the body of another Hurricane Katrina victim was found Friday east of New Orleans and taken to a medical examiner's office, an official said.

Make Louisiana's running total 1,104.

No information was available on who found the body under the debris of a home in storm-ravaged St. Bernard Parish, but Dr. Louis Cataldie, the state's medical examiner, recently asked that recovery crews and their cadaver dogs resume the search for bodies.

"The number of human remains that I have doesn't match the number of missing, which means there are either human remains that have either been washed away or are still out there waiting to be discovered," Cataldie said.

In other news Friday, the FBI announced that two temporary employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were arrested after soliciting bribes from a contractor supplying food for displaced residents.

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Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Can we at least bury the dead?

do I live in the United States. This is a disgrace we are still finding bodies this administration should be ashamed of themselves. I am just outraged at this!!!

which is exactly what they did, no doubt so they could limit the numbers they were responsible for. AND the media attention on the numbers, of course.

We`ll never know the true death toll.

and I'm sure it will come out in due course too...

in some academic journal that nobody reads.

So that is really TWO Disaters on bush's watch where several thousand americans were killed.

Remember that no cameras were allowed in as FEMA rounded up the bodies (sort of). Of course, we'll never get an independent investigation into this, so I guess those 3,000 + Americans will just remain "missing" all that time.

Never did hear another word about that did you? I think that the death toll from Katrina was probably closer to 10,000 persons myself. That Louisiana Bayou ... 'tis said by the oldsters from Shreveport that I know that once you went into that Bayou, you never came out. Nice dumping ground for bodies it has been for many years and that is nothing new. :(


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I know they're forcibly holding down the death toll & they'll fight the release of the numbers like Cheney fought the release of his energy meetings(successfully, unfortunately), just like they 'decline' to answer the people's questions when asked through their reps, i.e. Senators, House Representatives.

Of course the biggest job for the White House during Katrina was suppressing the death toll. They weren't going to let information out that tied the Bush administration to over 8,000 killed on his watch in domestic disasters.

Add 2200+ dead US troops in Iraq and the known Bush American death toll is over 10,000. Let me say that again.

The known Bush American death toll is over 10,000.

And we still have 3 more years of this shit.

from the Katrina disaster. When you think that some of the dead were very young children - small and light weight and easily carried out to the Gulf of Mexico to disappear without a trace. There is so much blood on the hands of this administration.

Can't let it be worse than 9/11. Nope, wouldn't be prudent. (oops, wrong Bush*).

volunteering at a relief center, they told us that a body had been discovered in that area just the week before.

in this 1-25-06 blog entry:
http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2006/01/katrina-death-toll-rockets-to-1417.html

In that post the "latest counts" are given as:
Louisiana: Tue., January 24: 1,101
Mississippi: Tue., January 24: 238
Florida : Mon., January 9: 14
Georgia : Mon., January 9: 2
Alabama: Mon., January 9: 2
Ohio : Fri., September 23: 2
Kentucky : Fri., September 23: 1
Evacuees *: Tue., October 4: 57

This documents the jump in the numbers. The CNN report in the opening post of the current thread raises the Louisiana "official" death toll by 3 more.

...besides taking away the property of the poor who may be considering returning.


:grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr:

Somebody, somewhere, please impeach this monster.

Considering the body's been there for almost 5 months?

May Bush and his cohorts burn in hell for what they have done.

My sympathies to the family of the deceased. I do hope they find all those who died so that their families can get proper graves to go to, at least.