BBC News tonight - Report 60,000 Men under Arms patrol N.O. streets

Up2Late

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Tue Sep-06-05 03:41 AM
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BBC News tonight - Report 60,000 Men under Arms patrol N.O. streets

This was part of BBC World News Tonight -Ten O'Clock News todays report, that "their are 60,000 Men under Arms..." patrolling the streets of the streets of New Orleans! 82nd Airborne patrolling the French Quarter, WTF?

AND They have Video of the Shoot out on the bridge!

Click "Latest News in Video and Audio" Button at the top right of the page at this link: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/default.stm# >

Then click at the bottom where it says:

"News bulletins
One, Six and Ten O'Clock News" to view this.

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shraby

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Tue Sep-06-05 03:46 AM
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1. Sounds to me like there are more armed men

Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 03:47 AM by shraby

on patrol in NO than there are survivors now.

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Up2Late

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Tue Sep-06-05 03:51 AM
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2. Yup, they said they estimate only 10,000 left in the city

but they are still finding people in areas they had yet to search.

And they went to Slidell (across the I-10 bridge), the people their said they still haven't seen any relief workers, FEMA or anything.

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dsewell

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Tue Sep-06-05 03:57 AM
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3. CNN says 50K in three states

"Some 51,000 troops -- 38,000 National Guard forces and 13,000 active duty forces -- have been deployed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/05/katrina.impact/index.html

That seems more likely to me.

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applegrove

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Tue Sep-06-05 04:06 AM
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4. I'm sure every rescuer has a gun. So they are not all army. This

is what Rove meant when he kept telling us to "not look back or into the future - focus on what is happening these days in New orleans".

Too late. You are assholes.

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Up2Late

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Tue Sep-06-05 11:35 AM
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5. Note to all: what I reported here applies to the 9/5/05 10:00pm BBC World

News, I haven't yet watched the BBC News that was on at 6:00am EDT on BBC America, which I taped.

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