Posted on 09/26/2005 5:51:53 AM PDT by Pikamax
Rumors of deaths greatly exaggerated
Widely reported attacks false or unsubstantiated
6 bodies found at Dome; 4 at Convention Center
By Brian Thevenot and Gordon Russell Staff writers
After five days managing near-riots, medical horrors and unspeakable living conditions inside the Superdome, Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas Beron prepared to hand over the dead to representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.
"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalls the doctor saying.
The real total was six, Beron said.
Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another jumped to his death in an apparent suicide, said Beron, who personally oversaw the turning over of bodies from a Dome freezer, where they lay atop melting bags of ice. State health department officials in charge of body recovery put the official death count at the Dome at 10, but Beron said the other four bodies were found in the street near the Dome, not inside it. Both sources said no one had been killed inside.
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Liberals, and by virtue, the MSM are a lot like the Arab culture. Truth is but a vague concept to them. It's all about how you can project your feelings and paint your opponent in the color and image of your perceptions about them.
Cover up?
Further proof that the MSM is our Fifth Column enemy...
What a travesty. From the weeping, whining Broussard fraud to the irresponsible, hysterical lies from Mayor Nagin that "thousands" of people were dying in the streets, it's little wonder people with a head on their shoulders have lost almost complete faith in where this country is headed.
"The real total was six, Beron said."
The looney left and the MSM are deeply saddened...
And, of course, "Bush's Fault!" ;)
By near-hysterical members of the MSM, Fox included, no less.
If they can't even tell the truth anymore, it may be time to remove, "of the press" from the 1st Amendment.
trying to embarrass the administration requires a lot of lying.
I think it may be a while before we realize most of what happened, and some will never be told. I was appalled that the media went on a frenzy with all this stuff, apparently wanting to assure the terrorists that there was chaos in America, just in case they had the time to drop in and do some havoc of their own. I really did believe that the media was trying to make an effort to make us look vulnerable.
I don't think so. I just think the media got overly excited and started floating rumors that started God knows where. It is also likely that they reported the deaths so often that folks started counting the same ones again and again, thus inflating the numbers. I'm not surprised there were some natural deaths in the Superdome. It had been announced at the very beginning as an evacuation location for Special needs and the elderly, two groups who are in fragile health at the best of times.
They now say nobody was stabbed or cut and those 6 died of natural causes (with exception to the suicide). Well, I recall seeing a news video on CNN showing several bodies in the SD or Convention Center, covered with sheets and blood on the floor and the sheets! The reporter said the bodies were mutilated and at that time, they didn't know if the people had been cut before or after death. I didn't read EVERY word of this article, but what I skimmed over, I didn't see mention of this. Did CNN totally stage that (entirely possible) or did it really happen? As I said, I DID see blood and bloody sheets.
No wonder FEMA wasn't watching the MSM. We don't need a Katrina commission, we need a commission to investigate the MSM.
That's what happens when the President is a honest man of character and principles. The democRATs having only vague ideas of what honesty is have no first hand experience to fall back on.
To a democRAT being honest is knowing their are no witnesses who can prove you are lying.
Frankly, I have the impression Nagin has a hard time getting a good count of his own fingers and toes.
It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive.
There was one suicide at the Dome -- a guy who jumped from one of the upper decks. That tends to make for a lot of mess.
You mean the story about dozens of bodies with throats slashed and young women raped is incorrect?
MSM can not be trusted or respected. They invent and distort the news.
This all depends on who did the investigating. The NOPD is NOT a credible police agency anymore...
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