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Here are my top ten great mysteries of New Orleans 2005:

1. The school/city buses stuck in the water
2. No evacuation of low areas all day Tuesday after the levee broke on Monday night
3. Empty contraflow lanes next to packed outbound lanes
4. Red Cross not allowed in to New Orleans
5. Failure to call evacuation 72 hours before the storm (standard)
6. Delays in asking for U.S. troops
7. 1/3 of a major city police force abandoning their post
8. Convention Center never announced as an evacuation point
9. Two police suicides
10. All police radios down

Individually, all of these can be attributed to neglect/incompetence/panic. But taken together...? And one thing that has bugged me from the day violence started in New Orleans.

I have heard repeated reports about thugs using AK-47s to terrorize the victims and first responders. Fox News reported on Wednesday night that shooters were firing on a New Orleans police station with AK-47s.

But drug gangs don't often use AK-47s, it is a hard weapon to get your hands on. It is certainly not a gun that you could steal from Wal Mart.

Nobody has ever answered the questions: Why would people stuck in the New Orleans flood fire guns at police and first responders trying to help them? Where did they get AK-47s?

advance_copy, i can incorporate some of your list into my theory (post #32).

1. The school/city buses stuck in the water
After revamping the school system, they were ticked off at Nagin. When Nagin called he got, "Sorry no one is here right now ...."

2. No evacuation of low areas all day Tuesday after the levee broke on Monday night
The levee broke because it was made of hollow concrete (like the Springfield's dam on the Simpsons). No evacuation because there's no one to drive them. Cops are busy with crowd control and hiding evidence, union drivers have their own evidence to burn. How many building burned?

3. Empty contraflow lanes next to packed outbound lanes
Seems not to be true, just no pics. Word is that this was going on, albiet late.

5. Failure to call evacuation 72 hours before the storm (standard)
*shrug*

6. Delays in asking for U.S. troops
7. 1/3 of a major city police force abandoning their post
See my post. #32 I believe that in one press conference a Guardsman or Military spokesman said the cops went from 1500 to 500. That's 2/3rds gone.

8. Convention Center never announced as an evacuation point
Without the cops or the Guard around it's hard to say. Had they been there it may have been used for a base or safe haven for themselves or a storehouse for supplies.

9. Two police suicides
10. All police radios down
The corrupt cops. Were they really suicides? Were these two officers hiding something they saw being exposed? Radios were down so the MIA cops could not be called from their evidence-burning and relocating of 'operations'.

And that's where the AK-47s came from. The drugs come in from Venezuala via Citgo. The cops & dealers & even the bus drivers peddle 'em. Blanco keeps the Feds out, occasionaly squandering money from the Feds to feed the operation. Jesse Jackson keeps the poor down by playing the race card. You need an inner city to hide the operation and provide plenty of customers.