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Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans By Joseph R. Chenelly Times staff writer NEW ORLEANS — Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. “This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.” Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy. Dozens of military trucks and up-armored Humvees left the staging area just after 11 a.m. Friday, while hundreds more troops arrived at the same staging area in the city via Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters. “We’re here to do whatever they need us to do,” Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon, of the Oklahoma National Guard’s 1345th Transportation Company. “We packed to stay as long as it takes.” While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes. |
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Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and police helicopters filled the city sky Friday morning. Most had armed soldiers manning the doors. According to Petty Officer 3rd Class Jeremy Grishamn, a spokesman for the amphibious assault ship Bataan, the vessel kept its helicopters at sea Thursday night after several military helicopters reported being shot at from the ground. Numerous soldiers also told Army Times that they have been shot at by armed civilians in New Orleans. Spokesmen for the Joint Task Force Headquarters at the Superdome were unaware of any servicemen being wounded in the streets, although one soldier is recovering from a gunshot wound sustained during a struggle with a civilian in the dome Wednesday night. “I never thought that at a National Guardsman I would be shot at by other Americans,” said Spc. Philip Baccus of the 527th Engineer Battalion. “And I never thought I’d have to carry a rifle when on a hurricane relief mission. This is a disgrace.” Spc. Cliff Ferguson of the 527th Engineer Battalion pointed out that he knows there are plenty of decent people in New Orleans, but he said it is hard to stay motivated considering the circumstances. “This is making a lot of us think about not reenlisting.” Ferguson said. “You have to think about whether it is worth risking your neck for someone who will turn around and shoot at you. We didn’t come here to fight a war. We came here to help.” from the |
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I am actually speechless |
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this is the only superpower. it's scandulous really. the only good thing to come fron this is this almost guarentees the democrats back in next session. then we may have 4 years of evolution to make up for the 8 years of monkey brain. |
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insurgency |
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as a reaction to this i have changed my avatar |
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i never thought i'd use the the word unbelievable in a literal sense. if someone quickly passed a law to rename new orleans to bagdad it wouldve speeded things up no end. |
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don't worry, the situation is only "temporary disruption". his words |
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lol @ "his words" |
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do you think they would have said they would shoot looting people if they where mostly white people ? and why do they care about that people are looting really ? |
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like west said "You see a black family and they say we are looting, you see a white family and they say they are looking for food." |
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"This place is going to look like Little Somalia" I can't believe he said that. |
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there has been prediction of a terrorist attack on sept 8th. not necessarily upon the USA. The guy who has predicted this correctly predicted the london bombings days before it occured. if the US is attacked, on sept 8th, or any time in the next little while, i can only imagine what it will mean. it looks to me like they cant handle their shit as it is. |
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then canada will have to step in |
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...i just have no idea.... you know that canada has done a huge ammount to prepare assistance for the current situation. from search and rescue teams preparing to mobilize, to military ships loading up with supplies. and yet, as far as i know, none of our offers of assistance have been accepted. hah.. did you see that castro has offered assistance? |
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it's scary shit. this is the person in charge of the entire universe as we know it. ffs. |
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yeah, of every place he could have named he picks somalia wtf is wrong with him. |
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AS other people have pointed out, why doesn't he stop fucking grinning? It's like he's rubbing it in everyone's face, he knows he can get away with murder. He could come out tomorrow and say "Well, look at it this way, it's just black folks" and do that fucking grin and get his lackies to laugh and the world will be stunned into thinking "What the ... fuck?" AGAIN and he'll just carry on, regardless, grinning and wanking over anyone and everyone. STOP THIS LUNATIC. |
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if you were actually living in North-America, this would be the point where I would casually slide a large, black case containing some sort of sniper rifle towards you, being careful to look the other way. |
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and then the week after we would accidentally meet again, but this time it would be a really large fucking case containing a bazooka for The Bloated Dictator, a.k.a. Dick Cheney. |
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most of all we need to support our troops. they are the ones we need to protect our freedom from ourselves. |
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It would seem bullets are easier to issue than food. |
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just nuke the fucking place already and get it over with next thing you know the looters will have wmds anyways... |
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insurgency ?? |
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looters = people trying to survive because they getting no aid |
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oh whoops let me edit my last post; /sarcasm> btw i <3 what you've done with your avatar! |
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Of all people, said it right about the "looters". [scroll down a bit for video] |
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damn i got the chills when she started singing... that's fuckin sad shit. |
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I know. I can't believe that retard Larry King actually asked her to sing, but she managed to ennoble the moment with a bit of dignity. |
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wow, i hadn't realized that celine dion was a real human being up until now. |
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It's like watching Pinocchio turning into a real boy, isn't it? |
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great country you got there |
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