Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos: police official

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Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos: police official

NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - A top New Orleans police officer said that National Guard troops sat around playing cards while people died in the stricken city after Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans deputy police commander W.S. Riley launched a bitter attack on the federal response to the disaster though he praised the way the evacuation was eventually handled.

The National Guard commander, Lieutenant General Steven Blum, said the reservist force was slow to move troops into New Orleans because it did not anticipate the collapse of the city's police force. Noting that 200 New Orleans policeman quit and 2 committed suicide.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050903/ts_alt_afp/usweatherpolice_050903215815

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Sun Sep-04-05 12:15 PM
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1. "Did not anticipate, did not anticipate, did not...." "WTF!!!!!

You can't anticipate the collapse of a force that had been working 24 hours a day non-stop under traumatic conditions?

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