The Katrina Myth; The Truth About A Thoroughly Unnatural Disaster Options

[Leslie Landry]

[Leslie Landry]

This post has been edited by Leslie Landry: Aug 31 2008, 12:43 AM

[Leslie Landry]

[tumetuestumefais...]

Yeah, the New Orleans disaster was at least not a natural one. And maybe even engineered.
I think the loosing of the unique New Orleans living culture and community due to the criminal negligence of the levees construction, maybe even destruction for purpose, was the great disaster not only for US but the whole world. I remember my friend, she is from New Orleans, when she was calling me from NY to Prague crying that now she has no place to go back home...
The New Orleans is certainly a key port in US, so one could expect there were loads of big bussiness interests which wanted to get rid of the poor black and creoles. They wage their illegal wars abroad which cost trilions and are even unable to bring a drinking water into own city, leaving the people die from dehydration...unbelievable.

This post has been edited by tumetuestumefaisdubien: Aug 31 2008, 05:58 AM

[Quest]

For what it's worth, WBAI in NY has interviewed Katrina survivors, some of which reported the sound of explosions just prior to the levee 'break'. It has been suggested by some that Katrina was but a cover in what was intended for New Orleans for some time; an ethnic cleansing and land grab for developers.

http://www.apfn.org/APFN/Katrina_levee.htm

Evidence of Explosives Found at Levee Break

NEW ORLEANS (September 9, 2005) — Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest: Burn marks on underwater debris chunks from the broken levee wall!
One diver, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saw the burn marks and knew immediately what caused them. He secreted a small chunk of the cement inside his diving suit and later arranged for it to be sent to trusted military friends at a The US Army Forensic Laboratory at Fort Gillem, Georgia for testing.
According to well placed sources, a military forensic specialist determined the burn marks on the cement chunks did, in fact, come from high-explosives. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity said “We found traces of boron-enhanced fluoronitramino explosives as well as PBXN-111. This would indicate at least two separate types of explosive devices.”
The levee ruptures in New Orleans did not take place during Hurricane Katrina, but rather a day after the hurricane struck. Several residents of New Orleans and many Emergency Workers reported hearing what sounded like large, muffled explosions from the area of the levee, but those were initially discounted as gas explosions from homes with leaking gas lines.
If these allegations prove true, the ruptured levee which flooded New Orleans was a deliberate act of mass destruction perpetrated by someone with access to military-grade UNDERWATER high explosives.

NOTE
Hal Turner, a New York based broadcaster, is shock-jock with racist leanings. He is virulently pro-property and anti-police and, as the following list of stories from his Web site indicate, he is a virulent racist. Still, the suggestion about explosive residue at the levee site deserves attention. Turner is a bozo, but he may have stumbled across something that the media needs to investigate further.

Were U.S. Government Saboteurs Involved In A Fatal Shootout With New Orleans Police Officers On Sept. 4 At The Danziger Bridge?
http://judicial-inc.biz/katutrina_blackwat...abotage%20Levee

In New Orleans: Ethnic Cleansing, GOP-Style
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/colu...g_disaster.html

Blackwater Down
http://www.alternet.org/katrina/25858/

Katrina: Blackwater & the Mossad Revisited
http://regattadiaries.blogspot.com/2006/08...-revisited.html

Blackwater Security (thugs) Still In New Orleans?
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?...&pst=806312

This post has been edited by Quest: Aug 31 2008, 05:19 PM

[Leslie Landry]

New Orleans cops cleared in bridge shooting
By MARY FOSTER – Aug 13, 2008

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge threw out murder and attempted murder charges Wednesday against seven New Orleans police officers accused of gunning down two men on a bridge in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In quashing the indictments, District Judge Raymond Bigelow agreed with defense arguments that prosecutors violated state law by divulging secret grand jury testimony to a police officer who was a witness in the case.

"The violation is clear," Bigelow said in making the ruling.

Survivors of the Sept. 4, 2005, shootings have said the officers fired at unarmed people crossing the Danziger Bridge to get food at a grocery store. Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally disabled man, and James Brissette, 19, were shot and killed by police; four other people were wounded.

The officers acknowledged shooting at people on the bridge, but said they did so only after taking fire.

Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005. In its aftermath, levees broke, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Chaos gripped the city, and looting was reported in some areas. Rescuers said they thought gunfire was directed at them.

Later investigation revealed at least some of the shooting was by residents trapped by floodwater trying to attract the attention of rescue parties.

Survivors of the shooting said in civil suits that they were unarmed and ambushed by the officers, who jumped out of the back of a rental truck and started shooting.

Police officials have acknowledged the officers shot people from both sides of the bridge, but said they were shot at first.

Sgt. Kenneth Bowen, Sgt. Robert Gisevius Jr., Officer Anthony Villavaso II and former Officer Robert Faulcon Jr. each faced first-degree murder and attempted murder charges in the case. Bigelow also threw out attempted first-degree murder charges against Officer Mike Hunter Jr. and Officer Robert Barrios and attempted second-degree murder charges against Officer Ignatius Hills.

Faulcon resigned from the police force; the other officers were assigned to desk duty after their indictment.

Bigelow also said Wednesday that prosecutors had wrongly instructed the grand jury, and that grand jury testimony by three of the officers was used against them improperly.

"It bordered on deliberate misuse of the law," Bigelow said. He gave the district attorney's office until Sept. 18 to decide if it would appeal.

Assistant District Attorney Robert White said his office would analyze the rulings and consider appealing. The office could also convene another grand jury to consider new charges against the officers.

"The ruling was not a total surprise," White said.

The officers sat quietly on one side of the court room and did not visibly react to Bigelow's ruling.

"We are very pleased for all the officers," said Bruce Whittaker, the attorney for Hills. "Now these men can get back to doing the work they love."

Madison's brother said the family hoped the Justice Department would investigate the matter. Keva Landrum-Johnson, the interim district attorney, asked U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey to have his civil rights division investigate case, according to a letter dated Aug. 8 that the family provided reporters.

"Our family today still feels that the ruling just proves again that the justice system here in New Orleans is still flawed," said Dr. Romell Madison.

A message left after hours seeking comment on the letter wasn't immediately returned by Justice Department staff in Washington.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten in New Orleans said he hadn't been formally notified of Bigelow's ruling and wouldn't comment on it. Letten said he has told the Madison family that his office would not intervene while the district attorney's office had an "active case ongoing."

Bigelow ordered bracelets used to track the officers' whereabouts removed but did not remove the bail each paid until the district attorney decides what to do.

Police spokesman Bob Young said the officers would return to regular jobs quickly, but he was not sure where they would be placed.

Members of the group Safe Streets, Strong Communities attended the hearing and demonstrated outside the courthouse after the ruling.

"The Danziger case is yet another example of a police department in crisis and a criminal justice system unwilling to keep them in check," said Norris Henderson, co-director of the group.

The case was the latest in a series of high-profile, emotional criminal prosecutions tied to Katrina that have fizzled.

Last year a grand jury refused to charge a doctor and two nurses in connection with the deaths of four patients at a New Orleans hospital after the storm. A jury also returned a not-guilty verdict against the operators of a St. Bernard Parish nursing home where more than 30 residents died in the storm's flooding.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ibnhDYX...pT5GkgD92HNQAO0

[Quest]

Look at the following site who's obvious purpose is to vilify black Katrina victims.

http://www.cofcc.org/info/old_katrina.php

[Quest]

New Orleans cops cleared in bridge shooting
By MARY FOSTER – Aug 13, 2008

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge threw out murder and attempted murder charges Wednesday against seven New Orleans police officers accused of gunning down two men on a bridge in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In quashing the indictments, District Judge Raymond Bigelow agreed with defense arguments that prosecutors violated state law by divulging secret grand jury testimony to a police officer who was a witness in the case.

"The violation is clear," Bigelow said in making the ruling.

Survivors of the Sept. 4, 2005, shootings have said the officers fired at unarmed people crossing the Danziger Bridge to get food at a grocery store. Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally disabled man, and James Brissette, 19, were shot and killed by police; four other people were wounded.

The officers acknowledged shooting at people on the bridge, but said they did so only after taking fire.

Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005. In its aftermath, levees broke, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Chaos gripped the city, and looting was reported in some areas. Rescuers said they thought gunfire was directed at them.

Later investigation revealed at least some of the shooting was by residents trapped by floodwater trying to attract the attention of rescue parties.

Survivors of the shooting said in civil suits that they were unarmed and ambushed by the officers, who jumped out of the back of a rental truck and started shooting.

Police officials have acknowledged the officers shot people from both sides of the bridge, but said they were shot at first.

Sgt. Kenneth Bowen, Sgt. Robert Gisevius Jr., Officer Anthony Villavaso II and former Officer Robert Faulcon Jr. each faced first-degree murder and attempted murder charges in the case. Bigelow also threw out attempted first-degree murder charges against Officer Mike Hunter Jr. and Officer Robert Barrios and attempted second-degree murder charges against Officer Ignatius Hills.

Faulcon resigned from the police force; the other officers were assigned to desk duty after their indictment.

Bigelow also said Wednesday that prosecutors had wrongly instructed the grand jury, and that grand jury testimony by three of the officers was used against them improperly.

"It bordered on deliberate misuse of the law," Bigelow said. He gave the district attorney's office until Sept. 18 to decide if it would appeal.

Assistant District Attorney Robert White said his office would analyze the rulings and consider appealing. The office could also convene another grand jury to consider new charges against the officers.

"The ruling was not a total surprise," White said.

The officers sat quietly on one side of the court room and did not visibly react to Bigelow's ruling.

"We are very pleased for all the officers," said Bruce Whittaker, the attorney for Hills. "Now these men can get back to doing the work they love."

Madison's brother said the family hoped the Justice Department would investigate the matter. Keva Landrum-Johnson, the interim district attorney, asked U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey to have his civil rights division investigate case, according to a letter dated Aug. 8 that the family provided reporters.

"Our family today still feels that the ruling just proves again that the justice system here in New Orleans is still flawed," said Dr. Romell Madison.

A message left after hours seeking comment on the letter wasn't immediately returned by Justice Department staff in Washington.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten in New Orleans said he hadn't been formally notified of Bigelow's ruling and wouldn't comment on it. Letten said he has told the Madison family that his office would not intervene while the district attorney's office had an "active case ongoing."

Bigelow ordered bracelets used to track the officers' whereabouts removed but did not remove the bail each paid until the district attorney decides what to do.

Police spokesman Bob Young said the officers would return to regular jobs quickly, but he was not sure where they would be placed.

Members of the group Safe Streets, Strong Communities attended the hearing and demonstrated outside the courthouse after the ruling.

"The Danziger case is yet another example of a police department in crisis and a criminal justice system unwilling to keep them in check," said Norris Henderson, co-director of the group.

The case was the latest in a series of high-profile, emotional criminal prosecutions tied to Katrina that have fizzled.

Last year a grand jury refused to charge a doctor and two nurses in connection with the deaths of four patients at a New Orleans hospital after the storm. A jury also returned a not-guilty verdict against the operators of a St. Bernard Parish nursing home where more than 30 residents died in the storm's flooding.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ibnhDYX...pT5GkgD92HNQAO0

Hey Leslie, there are some that suggest the shootout was between police and the supposed levee bombers.

[Leslie Landry]

"levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers "

Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee Clara Barthelemy:

"The 17th Street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable
real estate in the city… to keep the French Quarter protected, the Ninth Ward was sacrificed…
people are afraid to speak out… everyone who was near there heard the bombings… they bombed
seven times. That’s why they didn’t fix the levees… 20 feet of water. Gators. People dying in
water. They let the parishes go, not the city center. Tourist trap was saved over human life."
http://www.atsadgrab.com/forum/thread168591/pg1

September 7, 2005 -- Locals from Lakeview subdivision of New Orleans report that after Katrina passed a loose barge struck levee causing breach that flooded city.

WMR has just been informed by evacuees in Baton Rouge from Lakeview, a well-to-do New Orleans neighborhood, that the flooding of the city was caused by a loose barge striking the levee on the 17th Street Canal. The breach was not caused by rising flood waters as reported by FEMA and other agencies. Lakeview is some 1.5 miles down Veterans Boulevard from the 17th St. Canal breach.

(IMG:http://www.apfn.org/APFN/NOlevee.jpg)

Distraught evacuees want to know why the Coast Guard or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not secure the barge. The evacuees who witnessed the barge striking the levee also want to know why the major media is not covering this story. It is not known what company owns the barge but if it is a major campaign contributor to the GOP, the answer is self-evident.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

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Evidence of Explosives Found at Levee Break

(IMG:http://www.apfn.org/APFN/joe-edwards.jpg)
Hal Turner / TurnerShow.com

NEW ORLEANS (September 9, 2005) — Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest: Burn marks on underwater debris chunks from the broken levee wall!
One diver, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saw the burn marks and knew immediately what caused them. He secreted a small chunk of the cement inside his diving suit and later arranged for it to be sent to trusted military friends at a The US Army Forensic Laboratory at Fort Gillem, Georgia for testing.
According to well placed sources, a military forensic specialist determined the burn marks on the cement chunks did, in fact, come from high-explosives. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity said “We found traces of boron-enhanced fluoronitramino explosives as well as PBXN-111. This would indicate at least two separate types of explosive devices.”
The levee ruptures in New Orleans did not take place during Hurricane Katrina, but rather a day after the hurricane struck. Several residents of New Orleans and many Emergency Workers reported hearing what sounded like large, muffled explosions from the area of the levee, but those were initially discounted as gas explosions from homes with leaking gas lines.
If these allegations prove true, the ruptured levee which flooded New Orleans was a deliberate act of mass destruction perpetrated by someone with access to military-grade UNDERWATER high explosives.

NOTE
Hal Turner, a New York based broadcaster, is shock-jock with racist leanings. He is virulently pro-property and anti-police and, as the following list of stories from his Web site indicate, he is a virulent racist. Still, the suggestion about explosive residue at the levee site deserves attention. Turner is a bozo, but he may have stumbled across something that the media needs to investigate further.
http://www.mullingitover.com/wpress/2005/0...-levees-bombed/

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Earwitness tells ABC explosives blew Industrial Canal levee
Transcript:
DAVID MUIR, ABC NEWS: This is the actual levee that runs along the canal on the eastern side of the city. And when the hurricane hit, the water came through at such force, it was apparently too much. You can see the massive breach here, and when you look around the corner you can see what the water did to the Lower Ninth Ward. It compleetley destoryed neighborhoods.

JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD RESIDENT: I heard something go BOOM!

MUIR: Joe Edwards rushed to get himself and as many neighbors as possible into his truck. They drove to this bridge, where they've been living ever since

EDWARDS: My house broke in half. My mother's house just disintegrated. It was a brick house. All the houses down there floated down the street like somebody's guiding 'em

MUIR: Was it solely the water that broke the levee, or was it the force of this barge that now sits where homes once did? Joe Edwards says neither. People are so bitter, so disenfranchised in this neighborhood, they actually think the city did it, blowing up the levee to save richer neighborhoods like the French Quarter.

MUIR: So you're convinced . . .

EDWARDS: I know this happened!

MUIR: . . . they broke the levee on purpose?

EDWARDS: They blew it!

MUIR: New Orleans' mayor says there's no credence to this.

NEW ORLEANS MAYOR RAY NAGIN: That storm was so powerful and it pushed so much water, there's no way anyone could have calculated what levee to dynamite to have the kind of impact to save the French Quarter.

MUIR: An LSU expert who looked at the video today says, while the barge may have caused it, it was most likely the sheer force of the water that brought the levee along the Lower Ninth Ward down.
http://www.total411.info/2005/09/video-ear...explosives.html

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ABC NEWS Video
Man Claims he heard New Orleans Levees Dynamited into flooding city
Click Here to load video:
http://www.apfn.org/movies/leveeboom.rm.ram

At that point, the diver went back down to do more inspection of the levee. On the second dive, he secreted a small chunk of the debris inside his wet suit and later arranged for it to be sent to trusted military friends at a The U.S. Army Forensic Laboratory at Fort Gillem, Georgia for testing. According to well placed sources, a military forensic specialist determined the burn marks on the cement chunks did, in fact, come from high explosives. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity said "We found traces of boron-enhanced fluoronitramino explosives as well as PBXN-111 embedded in the debris. This would indicate at least two separate types of explosive devices." The levee ruptures in New Orleans did not take place during Hurricane Katrina, but rather a day after the hurricane struck. Several residents of New Orleans and many Emergency Workers reported hearing what sounded like large, muffled explosions from the area of the levee, but those were initially discounted as gas explosions from homes with leaking gas lines. If these allegations prove true, the ruptured levee which flooded New Orleans was a deliberate act of mass destruction perpetrated by someone with access to military-grade UNDERWATER high explosives.

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Very Painful Questions About New Orleans
By America's Patriot
9-8-5


There's something very wrong with the chronology of the levee breaks in New Orleans

Do you find it highly suspicious that the levees in New Orleans broke at 4:00 AM on August 30th?

The main storm surge from Hurricane Katrina would have been washed into Lake Pontchartrain at about 7:00 AM on August 29th when the counterclockwise motion of Katrina was pushing water from the Gulf of Mexico into the lake.

Why is there a 21 hour discrepancy between the storm surge and the collapse of the levees?

During the initial news coverage, some media outlets tried to explain away the time discrepancy as a "secondary storm surge" off of Lake Pontchartrain. Hurricanes DO NOT, never have and never will create "secondary storm surges". There's only one storm surge, the main surge while a hurricane makes landfall.

A secondary storm surge is about as believable as a magic bullet. But of course anybody who logically investigates the facts of this catastrophe will be accused of spending way too much time on the grassy knoll.

Now lets move on to the next two questions.

Why did pumping station #6, according to a statement made by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin during an interview with Matt Lauer on the August 29th edition of the Today Show, fail in the lower 9th ward, which also happens to be the section of New Orleans which is the deepest part of the city? Why did the Industrial Canal levee break near the 9th ward a few hours later?

It's interesting that both the failure of pumping station #6 and the Industrial Canal levee occurred within hours of each other within the same geographic area.

The breakdown of pumping station #6 would have gradually allowed the flooding of the 9th ward and force it's residents to flee to the second floor and roofs of their houses.

The immediate flood of water from the breach of the Industrial Canal levee a few hours later would have easily drowned everyone who was unlucky enough to still be inside of their home in the lower 9th ward and waterlog every single one of those houses up to the roof. By the time the water is pumped out the city, all of those waterlogged houses will have to be condemned and torn down.

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent eminent domain decision on private property, the City of New Orleans can easily condemn all of those destroyed properties and seize the land under eminent domain when the city is rebuilt. Of course with most of the residents of the 9th ward ending up dead, there's no one left to reclaim the properties or to fight back against city hall. Very convenient for anyone wishing to seize that property.

So lets continue by looking into the "construction projects" connected to the levees.

Why did the broken section of the 17th Street Canal levee undergo "construction" within the past year?
http://www.ocnus.net/artman/publish/printer_20044.shtml

"The Senate was seeking to restore some of the SELA funding cuts for 2006. But now it's too late. One project that a contractor had been racing to finish this summer was a bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street Canal, site of the main breach on Monday."

Why did the broken section of the Industrial Canal levee undergo "construction" within the past two years?
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/prj/ihnc/TEXTinteractive.asp

"West Bank Levee & Floodwall, Phase 1


Existing levee to be enlarged to 22.4 feet above sea level with 1,300 linear feet of earthen levee and 300 linear feet of combination earthen embankment and I-type floodwall. Pedestrian walkway and benches provided. On west bank of Industrial Canal from St. Claude Avenue to Mississippi River.
Estimated Start: June 2003. Construction Period: 10 months.
DESIGN BEING COMPLETED PILE DRIVING TRUCK USE"

Don't you find it very convenient that the levees broke in the exact same sections that were undergoing construction?

Predictably, skeptics and disinformation specialists, who will go out of their way to discredit serious inquiries into the levee collapses, will make up excuses and claim "shoddy construction" caused the collapse of both the 17th Street and Industrial Canals.

Of course the "shoddy construction" explanation was the same excuse used by skeptics and disinformation specialists to explain away the implosion of the World Trade Center towers and Building 7 on 9/11, which have been repeatedly proven to be controlled demolitions.

The cuts in federal funding for the levee system in New Orleans brings up even more interesting questions.

Why was the funding for the levee system cut by the Bush Administration?

According the New Orleans newspapers, several articles were published condemning the Bush Administrations slashing of funds for the maintenance of the levees in New Orleans;
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...#092;1001051313

"In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness.

On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."
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On the September 1st, 2005 edition of Good Morning America, President Bush claimed that "no one anticipated" that the levees would break in New Orleans;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4204754.stm

even though Homeland Security had drilled for such a scenario in 2004 which was titled "Hurricane Pam";
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=13051

"Hurricane Pam brought sustained winds of 120 mph, up to 20 inches of rain in parts of southeast Louisiana and storm surge that topped levees in the New Orleans area. More than one million residents evacuated and Hurricane Pam destroyed 500,000-600,000 buildings. Emergency officials from 50 parish, state, federal and volunteer organizations faced this scenario during a five-day exercise held this week at the State Emergency Operations Center in Baton Rouge."
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This willful ignorance by Bush is very similar to a comment made just after 9/11 by then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice who claimed "nobody had any idea that planes would be crashed into the World Trade Center" even though there were previous reports as well as NORAD and Pentagon drills(Operation Boijinka) which suggested planes would be used for terrorism.


Members of the Bush Administration knew full well this catastrophe was coming. Which begs the question: Were the collapse of the 17th Street Canal and the Industrial Canal levees deliberate events?

In light of all the evidence that's piling up, the conclusion would have to be "yes".

Were the levees destroyed with explosive charges?

Shaped charges would be the most convenient way to rupture those levees and the only way to explain why they ruptured so quickly instead of slowly crumbling apart in small pieces. With the city and and the surrounding areas evacuated, there would be very few witnesses to this type of deliberate sabotage, especially if it took place at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Were shaped explosive charges hidden inside of sealed, waterproof compartments during the "construction" on the 17th Street and Industrial Canal levees and conveniently detonated in the aftermath of Katrina?

In light of evidence of shaped charges being used in the destruction the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19th, 1995 and inside of the World Trade Center complex on September 11th, 2001, the probability is very high.

The circumstances surrounding the breaches of the levees becomes even stranger with the next piece of information.

Since a truck bomb was used to mask the presence of shaped charges in the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City and that the crashes of planes and resulting fires were used to mask the shaped charge demolition of the World Trade Center, we now have to turn to the mysterious barge that was conveniently parked near the area of the Industrial Canal levee breach;

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:I2iPv...reach&hl=en

Barge in the breach?

A loose barge may have caused a large breach in the east side of the Industrial Canal floodwall that accelerated Hurricane Katrina's rising floodwaters in New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al Naomi said Monday.

Naomi said the barge was found on the land side of the floodwall, leading corps officials to believe that it could have crashed through the wall and sent a huge amount of water -- which was already pouring over the top -- into the neighborhoods immediately downriver.
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Why was a barge parked next to the area of the Industrial Canal levee breach, especially when everyone knew a Category 5 hurricane was approaching the city? Was it planted there to make the collapse of the Industrial Canal levee look like an accident?

During the Oklahoma City Bombing, a truck with a fertilizer and fuel oil bomb was parked in front of the Murrah building by Timothy McVeigh and several Iraqi intelligence agents(who were brought into the U.S. by Bush Sr. during his term in office and were caught assisting McVeigh on video surveillance tapes confiscated under national security) in order to make it look like the truck bomb took down the building even though we know shaped charges caused the hole in the Murrah building.

It was the same way with the World Trade Center on 9/11. Planes were crashed into the buildings and the resulting fires were used in the governments whitewash of the events which claimed that the steel columns melted and caused the collapse. FDNY firefighter tapes prove the fires were nearly out before the shaped charge implosions of Towers
1 and 2 as well as Building 7, a demolition which was admitted several months later by Larry Silverstein on a PBS documentary called "America Rebuilds".

So the presence of this barge in the exact area where the Industrial Canal levee breached is highly suspicious.

On a side note, the original story linked above has been "scrubbed" from the main Minneapolis Star Tribune website and replaced with a totally different story. Luckily the original article was found in the Google cache. Looks like whoever destroyed those levees are putting massive pressure on newspapers and websites to censor the truth.

Now we have to ask, who benefits from this tragedy?

Halliburton, the company previously headed by Dick Cheney, has already been awarded contracts to clean up the damage from Katrina.

http://www.halliburton.com/default/main/ha...ng/news/source_ files/press_statement/2005/\corpnws_090205.html site down

[Halliburton gets Katrina contract, hires former FEMA director - 1 Sept. 2005
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/hurricane_katrina.html ]

"Also, as part of the company's Construction Capabilities (CONCAP) contract with the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Halliburton's subsidiary KBR is providing power distribution restoration, emergency roof repair and debris removal at three Mississippi Naval facilities that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Additionally, KBR will begin performing damage assessments on other Naval facilities in New Orleans as soon as it is deemed safe to do so."

Just like with the aftermath of the Iraq War, Dick Cheney and Halliburton will line their pockets by making billions of dollars off of the suffering of thousands of innocents.

Unfortunately for truth seekers, there will be influential individuals in the truth movement who will say that people who ask these types of questions "are shooting their mouths off" or will shut down inquiries into this event by saying "lets not get into this right now because of the scope of this tragedy". Unfortunately, they are unintentionally and unwittingly letting the perpetrators get away with this crime against humanity in New Orleans.

But those of us who ask these painful questions can always take solace in the following quote from Mark Twain:

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

It's clear the destruction of New Orleans with the levee breaches was a deliberately manufactured event which was designed to bring about the chaos we saw in New Orleans and to bring us closer to the New World Order police state.

http://www.rense.com/general67/painful.htm
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Also heard that part of the reason our house flooded is they dynamited part of the levee after the first section broke - they did this to prevent Uptown (the rich part of town) from being flooded. Apparently they used too much dynamite, thus flooding part of the Bywater. So now I know who is responsible for flooding my house - not Katrina, but our government. http://getyouracton.com/blog/?p=63

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By: Hal Turner
September 9, 2005
3:36 PM EDT
http://www.halturnershow.com/DiversFindExp...eOnRupturedLevy ...
New Orleans, LA -- Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest: Burn marks on underwater debris chunks from the
broken levee wall!

One diver, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saw the burn marks and knew immediately what caused them. He secreted a small chunk of the cement inside his diving suit and later arranged for it to be sent to trusted military
friends at a The U.S. Army Forensic Laboratory at Fort Gillem, Georgia for testing.

According to well placed sources, a military forensic specialist determined the burn marks on the cement chunks
did, in fact, come from high explosives. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity said "We found traces of
boron-enhanced fluoronitramino explosives as well as PBXN-111. This would indicate at least two separate types of explosive devices."

The levee ruptures in New Orleans did not take place during Hurricane Katrina, but rather a day after the hurricane
struck. Several residents of New Orleans and many Emergency Workers reported hearing what sounded like large, muffled explosions from the area of the levee, but those were initially discounted as gas explosions from homes with leaking gas lines.

If these allegations prove true, the ruptured levee which flooded New Orleans was a deliberate act of mass destruction
perpetrated by someone with access to military- grade UNDERWATER high explosives.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.activi...bac3b83bcb64ed2

Hurricane Katrina: FEMA Officials Wouldn't Listen:
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/KATRINA.HTM

[Leslie Landry]

Look at the following site who's obvious purpose is to vilify black Katrina victims.

http://www.cofcc.org/info/old_katrina.php

Thanks for that site (IMG:http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif)

[Leslie Landry]

Who Really Died In That
New Orleans Katrina Shootout?
Were US Government Levee Saboteurs Involved In A Fatal Shootout With New Oleans Officers On Sept. 4 At The Danziger Bridge?
By Greg Szymanski

The Sept. 4 gun battle, first killing five and now two on the Danziger Bridge between what was first reported as New Orleans police and U.S. military agents, has turned into a hodge-podge of conflicting reports, misstatements or outright official lies. An initial report by the Associated Press (AP) claimed five Department of Defense (DOD) personnel were killed by officers at the bridge located on the 5800 block of Chef Menteur Highway near Downman Rd. The original AP report, however, has since been sanitized with the only copies of the original story kept for posterity at a United Kingdom paper at http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlate and a foreign internet service, La Voz de Aztlan, at http://www.aztlan.net/police_kill_f.

But a quick check of both sites reveals The Guardian link has been deleted and Lo Voz had to provide through email today the original AP story after their link was also inaccessible. The original AP story since taken down reads in part: NEWORLEANS (AP) - Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six, a deputy chief said. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal. The contractors were walking across a bridge on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to fix the 17th Street Canal, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Corps. Earlier Sunday, New Orleans Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people, killing five or six. "The shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, which spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River." But what now exists from AP is a changed version of the story, either indicating reporter error or more likely an intentional switch since no reference to the original story or even a correction remains. Notice the huge difference of how the sanitized version of the AP story now reads, saying none of the contractors were killed: NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said. "Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six. "Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers. "They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said. "None of the contractors was injured, Mike Rogers, a disaster relief coordinator with the Army Corps of Engineers, told reporters in Baton Rouge." And before looking at the official New Orleans police report and public release of the incident, released Tuesday to the Arctic Beacon, serious questions have to be asked regarding what has turned out to be huge discrepancies in all the existing reports or fabrications of the incident. First, who were the "military agents" originally reported killed while making their way to the 17th Street Canal levee break? What were they doing there and why did police open fire on federal personnel, as originally reported? And even more sinister questions have been asked by La Voz after covering the story last September: "No one is saying anything and it appears that the news story has now been swept under the rug. Were these US Department of Defense personnel a Special Forces group or Navy Seals with top secret orders to sabotaged the levee? There are verifiable reports that at least 100 New Orleans police officers have disappeared from the face of the earth and that two have committed suicide. Could these be policemen that died defending the levee against sabotage by "federal contractors?" Further, why was it reported that it was necessary to shoot and kill five or six DOD personnel when now the following official report released by the New Orleans police indicates only two civilians were killed and no defense contractors injured. What makes this even stranger is that for at least two months after the story was released no one was talking about the incident, as it was swept under the rug by AP and not followed up by any major news outlets. Although reporters make errors, tt is hard to believe professionals can make this big an error, as they first report five to six government personnel killed, which has now been reduced to only two civilians. The following is the most up-to-date release by the New Orleans Police Department's Public Affairs Office, telling a completely different story than reported in the initial days of the shoot-out: New Orleans, La. --This morning members of the NewOrleans Police Department issued an update regarding the attempted murder of a Deputy Sheriff with the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office, as well is seven members of the New Orleans
Editor's Note: CORRECTION. In the Jan 9, 2006, article about the possibility of the levees being blown, we inadvertently put in the 17 th St. Canal levee when we meant the Industrial Canal. The change has been made an we apologize for the error.

This post has been edited by Leslie Landry: Aug 31 2008, 03:02 PM

[Quest]

Thanks for that site (IMG:http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif)

Anytime, Leslie. (IMG:http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif)

[Leslie Landry]

This is footage from going to rescue the people from their homes...how often do you think you would see rescue workers going to save people by having a gun pointed to your head?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjBZcuOqSE...feature=related

This post has been edited by Leslie Landry: Sep 13 2008, 09:21 PM

[Quest]

This is footage from going to rescue the people from their homes...how often do you think you would see rescue workers going to save people by having a gun pointed to your head?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjBZcuOqSE...feature=related

How ridiculous! Can you imagine white officers going into a white neighborhood with guns drawn during a rescue from a fire of flood? Check out the gum-chewing cowboy at 1:15. What a joke. This is no way to treat people in need of help.