THE HOSPITAL SNIPER story IS TRUE.

[lildreamer316]

CNN now.

[henslee]

1. Hospital sniper story?

[NoPasaran]

2. Dick Cheney has been found

[spuddonna]

3. You better believe that FEMA and Bush Admin are going...

to try to 'PR' this... They're banning media from entering these areas...

[RBHam]

4. Yes. But WHO is doing the "sniping"...

And whose agenda is being served...

[wli]

5. There should be no question by now. n/t

[SofaKingLiberal]

6. Sounds like BS to me,

somoene on a rooftop with a rifle making sure the hospital can't be evacuated? WTF?
Sounds like excuse for the incompetence of this administration and their piss-poor relief efforts.

[RBHam]

8. The Neo-Cons need an EXCUSE to allow the deterioration.

Martial Law is what they want. They're just "feeling" out the situation and they're going to use New Orleans for training.

[Justitia]

7. I heard them report it that way, but doc said he didn't know about that.

And then he didn't mention it again.

He really wants his patients evacuated out.

Let's be careful about reporting sniper stories.

[lildreamer316]

9. point taken

let's let it drop

[Roy]

10. They are still saying it's rumor. CNN,MSNBC

They say ambulances stop going into the areas because of RUMORS of shooting and sniping.

no one saw anyone shooting at helicopters, and no one saw dust kick up around the in flight helo, indicating a near miss.

No one has come forward with anything actually showing there were sniping except for imp lying visiting DU Looter Shooters who say they heard it, and backed by another Looter Shooter who says they heard it too.
DONE no other substantiation needed.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. Last night a man named Richard Zuschlag said a helicopter was fired on

In a phone interview on CNN. I heard it with my own two ears. However, this is what he said today.



Richard Zuschlag, president of Acadian Ambulance Service Inc., described the chaos at a suburban hospital.

"We tried to airlift supplies into Kenner Memorial Hospital late last evening and were confronted by an unruly crowd with guns, and the pilots refused to land," he said.

"My medics were crying, screaming for help. When we tried to land at Kenner, my pilots got scared because 100 people were on the helipad and some of them had guns. He was frightened and would not land."
http://www.wwltv.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/katrina/stories/090105ccwcKatrinaDocsplead.16a0e3a0.html

Which version is true? I have no idea, but I did not hear this Doctor confirm nor deny. He said, "we have no idea why there's shooting of any kind."

The only thing I'm sure of is that the patients need evacuated.

[libnnc]

13. were those guns fired?

they had guns but was there shooting?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. Depends on which interview of the man you want to believe

In the phone one on CNN he said they were shot at in this other one he says, " my pilots got scared because 100 people were on the helipad and some of them had guns. He was frightened and would not land."

If I were to venture a guess I'd say last night on CNN he may not have had all the facts straight and today he did. However, that is pure speculation.

[Old and In the Way]

12. FEMA was not prepared, so this sounds like a nice cover story

to justify their lack of preparation. Who'd be trying to keep rescuer's out of the area if you had been stuck in there for 5 days? I'd far more believe that they generated a rumor to cover their inability to go in there and do their job.